M&A Deal Summary

Circadence Acquires Iptivia

On July 17, 2009, Circadence acquired information technology company Iptivia from Paladin Capital Group

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Circadence’s 1st transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is Circadence’s 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is Circadence’s 1st transaction in New York.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2009-07-17
Target Iptivia
Sector Information Technology
Buyer(s) Circadence
Sellers(s) Paladin Capital Group
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Iptivia

New York, New York, United States
Iptivia, Inc. is a comprehensive set of products and services which enable High-Fidelity Service Assurance for large-scale IP networks. Iptivia’s High-Fidelity Service Assurance products add layers of IP management visibility previously unattainable from existing network management tools.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Circadence

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Category Company
Founded 1993
Sector Software
DESCRIPTION

Circadence has leveraged the power of advanced technologies to pioneer smarter, faster, and more cost-effective solutions for improving IT performance. What started with our innovative platform for making massively multiplayer online games run faster has quickly grown into the most capable suite of optimization solutions available.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Information Technology M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 1
State: New York M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2009 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2001-02-23 VR-1 Entertainment

Boulder, Colorado, United States

VR-1 is one of the world's leading developers of online games. It uses revolutionary proprietary technology, known as Conductor ? to enable thousands of gamers to simultaneously play "massively multi-player" interactive games over the Internet. Conductor enables gamers to enjoy real-time interaction in network games across most connection speeds, including 28.8 kbps. VR-1 has its key development studio in Boulder, Colorado with additional facilities in Tokyo, St. Petersburg and Toronto.

Sell $38M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Paladin Capital Group

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Growth Capital Firm
Founded 2001
PE ASSETS 1.5B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

Paladin Capital Group is a growth capital firm focused on early and expansion stage businesses related to homeland security, defense, and business continuity. Specific areas of interest include identity management, antimicrobial solutions, mesh networks, IT services, data storage, business process software, network management software and detection, biometrics, and protective equipment. Paladin Capital Group was formed in 2001 and is headquartered in Washington DC.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 6 of 44
Sector: Information Technology M&A 2 of 12
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 5 of 31
State: New York M&A 3 of 4
Country: United States M&A 6 of 38
Year: 2009 M&A 3 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-05-23 Modius

San Francisco, California, United States

Modius is a provider of critical infrastructure management software for optimizing the infrastructure and operations of critical facilities, including data centers, telecom, smart buildings and other IoT environments. Modius was founded in 2004 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-01-14 Cloudshield Technologies

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Cloudshield Technologies, Inc. is a cybersecurity and management solutions provider. CloudShield provides services management and infrastructure security solutions to service providers and national governments worldwide.

Sell -