Investment Summary

Advent Partners Invests In Compass Education

On January 14, 2020, private equity firm Advent Partners invested in software company Compass Education

Investment Highlights
  • This is Advent Partners’ 2nd transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Advent Partners’ 23rd transaction in Australia.

Investment Summary

Date 2020-01-14
Target Compass Education
Sector Software
Investor(s) Advent Partners
Deal Type Stake Purchase

Target

Compass Education

Melbourne, Australia
Compass Education is the major Education management Platform in Australia. One of only a few cloud-based, multi-lingual and multi-currency SaaS school management solutions. Compass is now used by almost 1,800 primary and secondary schools. Compass Education was founded in 2010 and is based in Melbourne, Australia.

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Investor

Advent Partners

Melbourne, Australia

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1984
PE ASSETS 700M AUD
Size Middle-Market
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Advent Private Capital is an Australian private equity firm focused on investing in privately owned, growing businesses, with strong management and sustainable competitive advantages. Advent looks to invest in businesses valued between $15 and $100 million AUS with operating profits of at least $4 million. Advent considers itself a generalist private equity firm with an expansive industry focus, however, the Firm has a history of targeting manufacturing and service-based businesses. Advent will not invest in property development, resources, primary production, listed companies, start-ups or early-stage transactions. Advent was formed in 1984 and is based in Melbourne.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 23 of 28
Sector: Software M&A 2 of 3
Type: Stake Purchase M&A Deals 3 of 3
Country: Australia M&A 23 of 25
Year: 2020 M&A 1 of 3
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DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
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Mandoe Media engages in digital signage and customer engagement software space in Australia. Mandoe's proprietary cloud-enabled software allows businesses from SMEs to large enterprises, to seamlessly control a digital signage network of any size, with the ability to create, manage and display personalized content. Mandoe Media is based in Sydney, Australia.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-06-01 Flintfox

Auckland, New Zealand

Flintfox is a developer of trade revenue management (TRM) software. Flintfox’s software is used by global trade and enterprise organisations to manage, track, and reconcile trade promotion and rebate expenditure, and execute multi-channel pricing strategies. Flintfox was founded in 1987 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

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