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Lightera Acquires Luminus Devices

On September 17, 2013, Lightera acquired electrical equipment company Luminus Devices from Paladin Capital Group

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Lightera’s 1st transaction in the Electrical Equipment sector.
  • This is Lightera’s 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is Lightera’s 1st transaction in Massachusetts.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2013-09-17
Target Luminus Devices
Sector Electrical Equipment
Buyer(s) Lightera
Sellers(s) Paladin Capital Group
Deal Type Merger

Target

Luminus Devices

Woburn, Massachusetts, United States
Luminus Devices, Inc. is a developer and manufacturer of high performance solid state light sources for a variety of illumination applications, including high definition TVs, video projectors, avionics displays, and lighting systems.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Lightera

Sunnyvale, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 2012
Sector Electrical Equipment
DESCRIPTION

Lightera Corp. is a designer and developer of light emitting diodes components.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Electrical Equipment M&A 1 of 1
Type: Merger M&A Deals 1 of 1
State: Massachusetts M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2013 M&A 1 of 1

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Paladin Capital Group

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Growth Capital Firm
Founded 2001
PE ASSETS 1.5B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

Paladin Capital Group is a growth capital firm focused on early and expansion stage businesses related to homeland security, defense, and business continuity. Specific areas of interest include identity management, antimicrobial solutions, mesh networks, IT services, data storage, business process software, network management software and detection, biometrics, and protective equipment. Paladin Capital Group was formed in 2001 and is headquartered in Washington DC.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 14 of 44
Sector: Electrical Equipment M&A 1 of 1
Type: Merger M&A Deals 1 of 1
State: Massachusetts M&A 2 of 5
Country: United States M&A 14 of 38
Year: 2013 M&A 1 of 4
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DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-09-01 Bugcrowd

San Francisco, California, United States

Bugcrowd offers outsourced ‘bug bounty’ security testing. Bugcrowd provides enterprise customers with a technology platform and a vetted community of security testers to allow them to outsource their ‘bug bounty’ program. Bugcrowd was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

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DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-09-18 Arxan

Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Arxan is a provider of software security solutions. Arxan focuses on solutions that address the vulnerability of software running on a machine that is no longer controlled by the software’s creator. Arxan was founded in 2001 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

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