M&A Deal Summary

Ascential Software Acquires Vality Technology

On March 12, 2002, Ascential Software acquired business services company Vality Technology from Trident Capital for 92M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Ascential Software’s 1st transaction in the Business Services sector.
  • This is Ascential Software’s largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Ascential Software’s 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is Ascential Software’s 1st transaction in Massachusetts.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2002-03-12
Target Vality Technology
Sector Business Services
Buyer(s) Ascential Software
Sellers(s) Trident Capital
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 92M USD

Target

Vality Technology

Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Vality provides data-quality software tools and re-engineering consulting services

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Ascential Software

Westborough, Massachusetts, United States
Category Company
Founded 1986
Sector Software
Employees970
DESCRIPTION

Ascential Software Corp. is a provider of extraction, transformation, and loading software for building data warehouses and transferring information between disparate data sources.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector (Business Services) 1 of 1
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 1 of 1
State (Massachusetts) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 1 of 1
Year (2002) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2001-07-02 Informix Software

Menlo Park, United States

Informix Software is a provider of database management systems for data warehousing, business intelligence and transaction processing.

Sell $1.0B

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Trident Capital

San Mateo, California, United States
Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1993
PE ASSETS 1.9B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

Trident Capital was a venture capital firm focused on investments at all company stages, from early and expansion stage investments to buyouts and recapitalizations. Trident focused on investments in tech-enabled sectors, including enterprise software/services, outsourcing and payments, healthcare software/services, internet/consumer, and energy/clean tech. In 2015, Trident ceased investing and the Firm's employees split to form Sunstone Partners, a growth equity firm, and Trident Capital Cybersecurity, a venture firm focused on the cyber security sector.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 14 of 85
Sector (Business Services) 2 of 13
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 12 of 63
State (Massachusetts) 2 of 9
Country (United States) 14 of 80
Year (2002) 1 of 3
Size (of disclosed) 13 of 21
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2002-01-28 Bytemobile

Mountain View, California, United States

Bytemobile is a provider of carrier class mobile data optimization solutions. Bytemobile® has approximately 300 employees, including product, sales and services teams around the world. In addition to optimizing mobile data and video traffic, Bytemobile solutions enable mobile operators to differentiate data service plans based on a wide variety of factors, including quality of experience and subscriber usage. With a presence in the networks of more than 130 operators in 60 countries worldwide, Bytemobile customers serve more than 2 billion subscribers and process more than 20 petabytes of mobile data traffic through their networks daily.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2002-04-05 Viant

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Viant Corporation was a pioneer provider of digital/web business solutions.

Sell $96M
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