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Hoovers Acquires Visible Path

On January 30, 2008, Hoovers acquired business services company Visible Path from Integral Capital Partners

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Hoovers’ 1st transaction in the Business Services sector.
  • This is Hoovers’ 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is Hoovers’ 1st transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2008-01-30
Target Visible Path
Sector Business Services
Buyer(s) Hoovers
Sellers(s) Integral Capital Partners
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Visible Path

San Francisco, California, United States
D&B products and services can help you turn information into insight to develop conclusive, fact-based strategies that will help you gain a competitive edge and transform your enterprise into a nimble, customer-focused, more profitable business. As the leading provider of business information for credit, marketing and purchasing decisions worldwide, D&B can help you perform a wide range of business analyses.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Hoovers

Short Hills, New Jersey, United States
Category Company
Founded 1990
Sector Information Services
Employees211
Revenue 32M USD (2002)
DESCRIPTION

Hoover’s Inc. is a provider of business information and integrated workflow solutions

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Business Services M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 1
State: California M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2008 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 47 of 67
Sector: Business Services M&A 2 of 2
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 32 of 45
State: California M&A 32 of 48
Country: United States M&A 46 of 66
Year: 2008 M&A 1 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-12-01 Aragon Surgical

Palo Alto, California, United States

Aragon Surgical, Inc. is a manufacturers of surgical instruments and sterilization container systems.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-02-14 ArcSight

Cupertino, California, United States

ArcSight is a global provider of security and compliance management solutions that intelligently identify and mitigate cyber threat and risk for businesses and government agencies. ArcSight helps protect enterprises and government agencies by providing complete visibility and critical insights into their IT infrastructure across all users, networks, datacenters and applications.

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