M&A Deal Summary

Actian Acquires ParAccel

On April 25, 2013, Actian acquired software company ParAccel

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Actian’s 3rd transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Actian’s 3rd transaction in the United States.
  • This is Actian’s 2nd transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2013-04-25
Target ParAccel
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Actian
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Advisor(s) Union Square Advisors (Financial)

Target

ParAccel

Redwood City, California, United States
ParAccel specializes in high-end databases, and has seen a handful of its primary competitors, like Vertica and Aster Data Systems, acquired by the likes of Hewlett-Packard and Teradata, respectively. Its Analytic Platform brings together an analytic database along with features to extend it and integrate it with other technologies for running big-data analytics. Its customers include Amazon, Royal Bank of Scotland, OfficeMax and MicroStrategy.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Actian

Santa Clara, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1980
Sector Internet Software and Services
DESCRIPTION

Actian is a hybrid data management, cloud integration, and analytics solutions–powers insight-driven enterprises around the globe to help them solve the toughest data challenges. Actian was founded in 1980 and is based in Santa Clara, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 3
Sector: Software M&A 3 of 3
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 3 of 3
State: California M&A 2 of 2
Country: United States M&A 3 of 3
Year: 2013 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-04-11 Pervasive Software

Austin, Texas, United States

Pervasive Software is a provider of software which cleansed, transported, managed, integrated and analyzed data.

Buy $162M