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Keensight Capital Acquires ASTI Mobile Robotics

On February 5, 2019, private equity firm Keensight Capital acquired technology hardware company ASTI Mobile Robotics

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Keensight Capital’s 1st transaction in the Technology Hardware sector.
  • This is Keensight Capital’s 1st transaction in Spain.
Investment Fate
  • ASTI Mobile Robotics was sold to a publicly-traded strategic buyer in 2021.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2019-02-05
Target ASTI Mobile Robotics
Sector Technology Hardware
Buyer(s) Keensight Capital
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)

Target

ASTI Mobile Robotics

Burgos, Spain
ASTI Mobile Robotics is an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) manufacturer with a broad portfolio across all major applications enabled by the company’s software suite. Its operations include project analysis, development, manufacturing, installation, and maintenance of automated material handling solutions. ASTI Mobile Robotics was founded in 1982 and is based in Burgos, Spain.

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Keensight Capital

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2000
PE ASSETS 5.5B EUR
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Keensight Capital is a private equity investment firm focused on majority and minority growth capital investments in Western European companies. Keensight makes equity investments in a number of situations including the provision of capital to finance growth, either organically or through acquisitions, or the buying out of existing shareholders. The Firm looks to invest €10 to €600 million and will consider business with up to €400 million in revenue. Keensight Capital was formed in 2000 and is based in Paris.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 25 of 54
Sector: Technology Hardware M&A 1 of 1
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 11 of 19
Country: Spain M&A 1 of 3
Year: 2019 M&A 1 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-05-23 Biovian

Turku, Finland

Biovian is a one-stop-shop GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) CDmO of biopharmaceuticals providing manufacturing and development services from early stage to finished product. Biovian’s broad service offering includes comprehensive analytical solutions to support drug substance and drug product development and release, as well as analytical and microbiological testing of investigational and commercial drug substances, drug products or medical devices. Biovian was founded in 2003 and is based in Turku, Finland.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-03-11 Ividata

Levallois-Perret, France

Ividata is a consulting group specialized in big data and artificial intelligence services. Ividata's one-stop-shop model covers the entire big data value chain, from strategy to UX, and including data science and data privacy services. Ividata was founded in 2013 and is based in Levallois-Perret, France.

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