Investment Summary |
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|---|---|
| Date | 2015-11-03 |
| Target | ParStream |
| Sector | Information Technology |
| Investor(s) | Cisco Systems |
| Sellers(s) | Baker Capital |
| Deal Type | Add-on Acquisition |
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| Category | Company |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1984 |
| Sector | Technology Hardware |
| Employees | 90,400 |
| Revenue | 53.8B USD (2024) |
Cisco Systems designs, manufactures, and sells Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology (IT) industry and provides services associated with these products and their use. Cisco provides a broad line of products for transporting data, voice, and video within buildings, across campuses, and around the world. The Company's products are designed to transform how people connect, communicate, and collaborate, and are installed at enterprise businesses, public institutions, telecommunications companies and other service providers, commercial businesses, and personal residences. Cisco was founded in 1984 and is based in San Jose, California.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 187 of 223 |
| Sector: Information Technology M&A | 38 of 45 |
| Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals | 180 of 215 |
| Country: Germany M&A | 2 of 2 |
| Year: 2015 M&A | 10 of 12 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-28 |
1 Mainstream
San Jose, California, United States 1 Mainstream Inc. offers a cloud-based video platform designed to quickly launch live and on-demand OTT video services to a variety of connected devices. 1 Mainstream helps service providers, broadcasters, media companies and emerging digital content companies deliver their media content to almost any connected media device, from Apple TV to Microsoft Xbox. |
Buy | - |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-11-20 |
Acano
Uxbridge, United Kingdom Acano Limited provides collaboration infrastructure and conferencing software. Acano’s hardware and software includes gateways, and video and audio bridging technology that allows customers to connect video systems from multiple vendors across both cloud and hybrid environments. |
Buy | $700M |
| Category | Private Equity Firm |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1995 |
| PE ASSETS | 1.5B USD |
| Size | Large |
| Type | Sector Agnostic |
Baker Capital is a specialist private equity firm focused on the opportunity in the communications industry created by deregulation, new technology, and growth of the internet. Baker looks for investments in communications equipment, services, and applications providers. Baker prefers to exit investments within 5 years. Baker Capital was formed in 1995 and is based in New York City.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 16 of 17 |
| Sector: Information Technology M&A | 5 of 6 |
| Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals | 11 of 12 |
| Country: Germany M&A | 2 of 2 |
| Year: 2015 M&A | 1 of 1 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-08-14 |
ParStream
Cologne, Germany ParStream provides an analytics database that allows companies to analyze large amounts of data and store it in near real time anywhere in the network. |
Buy | - |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-05-12 |
Medianet
Seattle, Washington, United States Medianet is a provider of digital music technology platform offers an API and easy to use web compentnets that deliver a set of powerful music and media content capability including streams, downloads, media search. |
Sell | - |
