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M&A Deal Summary

KnownHost Acquires ComfortHost.NET

On August 15, 2022, KnownHost acquired information technology company ComfortHost.NET from Cloud Equity Group

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is KnownHost’s 1st transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is KnownHost’s 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is KnownHost’s 1st transaction in Florida.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2022-08-15
Target ComfortHost.NET
Sector Information Technology
Buyer(s) KnownHost
Sellers(s) Cloud Equity Group
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

ComfortHost.NET

Orlando, Florida, United States
ComfortHost.NET is an international web hosting provider. ComfortHost has been in business for over ten years and hosts more than fifteen thousand domains on its network. The company’s goal is to provide connectivity for its clients around the world with a personalized hosting solution to meet the rising information technology demands of businesses. ComfortHost.NET is based in Orlando, Florida.

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Buyer

KnownHost

Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Category Company
Founded 2006
Sector Information Technology
DESCRIPTION

KnownHost is a privately held professional web hosting company. KnownHost technology supports centered around four state of the art data centers. KnownHost facilities are feature premium bandwidth such as Internap, Level 3 and Savvis, with uptime, fast support, and high-performance hosting. KnownHost was founded in 2006 and is based in Birmingham, Alabama.

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: Florida M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2022 M&A 1 of 1

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Cloud Equity Group

Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2013
Size Small
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

Cloud Equity Group is a private investment firm focused on providing equity and mezzanine capital to businesses that provide web hosting and cloud based infrastructure solutions. The Firm will consider opportunities throughout the US and seeks acquisitions as well as growth capital investment situations. Cloud Equity Group was formed in 2013 and is based in New York City.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 2
Sector: Information Technology M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 2 of 2
State: Florida M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 2 of 2
Year: 2022 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-05-31 CloudAccess

Traverse City, Michigan, United States

CloudAccess is a cloud based hosting and support platform for Joomla and WordPress based content managers. CloudAccess was founded in 2008 and is based in Traverse City, Michigan.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-10-24 Chrein

Lynbrook, New York, United States

Chrein is a creating, customer-service oriented web development and online marketing agency. The firm offers a personal hands-on approach that helps make every project, and every client relationship, a success. Chrein was founded in 1994 and is based in Lynbrook, New York.

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