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M&A Deal Summary

DS-IQ Acquires Concept Shopping

On April 14, 2010, DS-IQ acquired marketing company Concept Shopping from Integral Capital Partners

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is DS-IQ’s 1st transaction in the Marketing sector.
  • This is DS-IQ’s 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is DS-IQ’s 1st transaction in Illinois.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2010-04-14
Target Concept Shopping
Sector Marketing
Buyer(s) DS-IQ
Sellers(s) Integral Capital Partners
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Concept Shopping

Lisle, Illinois, United States
DS-IQ’s pioneering shopper marketing technologies drive breakthrough sales gains and marketing results. Retailers and marketers deliver the right messages to the right shoppers at the right times. DS-IQ’s intelligent software delivers powerful capabilities, including highly targeted offers using continuously updated shopper purchase history and real-time optimization of sales lift through digital media.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

DS-IQ

Bellevue, Washington, United States
Category Company
Founded 2003
Sector Retail
DESCRIPTION

DS-IQ, Inc. provides a Web-based ASP service for uplifting analytics algorithms for retail digital signage applications.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Marketing M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 1
State: Illinois M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2010 M&A 1 of 1

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Integral Capital Partners

Menlo Park, California, United States

Investor

Category Venture Capital Firm
Founded 1991
Size Middle-Market
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Integral Capital Partners operates as a group of partnerships that invests in expansion-stage private and growth-stage public companies in the information and life sciences industries. Within information sciences, Integral focuses on communications-centric computing, real-time computing, and mobility. Within life sciences, Integral targets companies that deal in emerging medical technologies and healthcare information systems. The Firm operates in partnership with the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, which incubated the Firm in 1991, as well as private equity firm Silver Lake Partners. Integral Capital Partners is based in Menlo Park, California.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 55 of 67
Sector: Marketing M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 37 of 45
State: Illinois M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 54 of 66
Year: 2010 M&A 2 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-03-24 Calix

San Jose, California, United States

Calix is a provider of broadband communications access software, systems, and services that enables communications service companies to transform their networks and become the broadband provider of choice to their subscribers. Calix was founded in 1999 and is based in San Jose, California.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-05-14 Learnist

San Francisco, California, United States

Learnist, Inc. is a provider of online learning solutions to students by applying the power of social networks, adaptive algorithms, and gaming mechanics to the process of learning and education.

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