M&A Deal Summary

dSPACE Acquires understand.ai

On July 16, 2019, dSPACE acquired software company understand.ai from Layline Partners

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is dSPACE’s 1st transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is dSPACE’s 1st transaction in Germany.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2019-07-16
Target understand.ai
Sector Software
Buyer(s) dSPACE
Sellers(s) Layline Partners
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

understand.ai

Karlsruhe, Germany
understand.ai provides high-quality training and validation data to enable mobility companies to develop with confidence computer vision and machine learning models that reliably and safely power autonomous vehicles.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

dSPACE

Paderborn, Germany

Category Company
Founded 1988
Sector Information Technology
DESCRIPTION

dSPACE GmbH engages in the producer of engineering tools for developing and testing mechatronic control systems. With a broad portfolio and cutting-edge technology, dSPACE GmbH is much in demand as a development partner in the automotive industry, aerospace, and industrial automation.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Software M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: Germany M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2019 M&A 1 of 1

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Layline Partners

Gothenburg, Sweden

Investor Investor


Category Growth Capital Firm
Founded 2004
Size Small
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Layline Partners is a private investment firm focused on small and mid market companies in Sweden. The Firm looks to work alongside company management to help accelerate growth. Layline Partners was formed in 2004 and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 3
Sector: Software M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 2 of 3
Country: Germany M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2019 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-07-23 Admeta

Gothenburg, Sweden

Admeta develops and sells services to publishers, ad networks and advertisers who want to increase their profitability in Internet advertising. Admeta was founded in 2002 and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2025-04-14 Pex

London, United Kingdom

Pex is a technology company enabling the fair and transparent use of copyrighted content at the speed and scale of the Internet. Pex was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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