Investment Summary

C5 Capital Invests In Balabit

On June 18, 2014, growth capital firm C5 Capital invested in information technology company Balabit

Investment Highlights
  • This is C5 Capital’s 2nd transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is C5 Capital’s 1st transaction in Hungary.
Investment Fate
  • Balabit was sold to a strategic buyer in 2018.

Investment Summary

Date 2014-06-18
Target Balabit
Sector Information Technology
Investor(s) C5 Capital
Deal Type Venture

Target

Balabit

Budapest, Hungary
Balabit Corp. is an European IT security innovator, specializing in advanced monitoring technologies. Balabit was founded in 2000 and is based in Budapest, Hungary.

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Investor
DESCRIPTION

C5 is a family capital-backed technology investment firm focused on investing in cyber security, data analytics, cloud computing, and assistive technologies. C5 Cyber looks for growth opportunities throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. C5 Capital was formed in 2014 and is headquartered in London.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 17
Sector: Information Technology M&A 2 of 13
Type: Venture M&A Deals 3 of 12
Country: Hungary M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2014 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-09-01 Shape Security

Santa Clara, California, United States

Shape Security defends the world’s largest enterprises from all types of fraud against their online applications, including more than half of all online banking in North America. Shape’s fraud prevention platform detects and blocks up to 2 billion fraudulent or unwanted transactions daily while keeping 200 million legitimate human logins and other interactions safe. Shape provides omnichannel protection for web applications, mobile applications, and API interfaces; the company’s mobile SDK is deployed on more than 200 million iOS and Android devices worldwide.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-05-11 Omada

Copenhagen, Denmark

Omada is a provider of IT security solutions and services for identity management and access governance. The Company helps its customers globally to govern and control users' access rights to enterprise systems and data, reduce risk of accidental or wrongful data access, and ensure compliance with regulation (such as GDPR) as well as industry-specific legislation. Omada was founded in 2000 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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