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Meltwater Acquires Findwise Search Center of Excellence AB

On February 19, 2014, Meltwater acquired information technology company Findwise Search Center of Excellence AB from Findwise AB

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Meltwater’s 1st transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is Meltwater’s 2nd transaction in Sweden.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2014-02-19
Target Findwise Search Center of Excellence AB
Sector Information Technology
Buyer(s) Meltwater
Sellers(s) Findwise AB
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

Findwise Search Center of Excellence AB

Gothenburg, Sweden
Findwise Search Center of Excellence AB is a developer of search driven technology, information management and data analytics services.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Meltwater

San Francisco, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 2001
Sector Information Technology
Employees2,200
Revenue 411M EUR (2022)
DESCRIPTION

Meltwater is a provider of online intelligence solutions. Meltwater helps companies make better, more informed decisions based on insights from the outside. More than 25,000 companies use the Meltwater media intelligence platform to stay on top of billions of online conversations, extract relevant insights, and use them to strategically manage their brand and stay ahead of their competition. Meltwater was founded in 2001 and is based in San Francisco, California.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 5 of 17
Sector: Information Technology M&A 1 of 4
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 2
Country: Sweden M&A 2 of 2
Year: 2014 M&A 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-03-26 OCULUSai Technologies AB

Stockholm, Sweden

OculusAI is a Computer Vision company that develops state-of-the-art image & object recognition technology that enable automated content recognition, moderation and analysis for developers worldwide.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-05-21 Strategic Planner

Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac, Quebec, Canada

Strategic Planner, Inc. is a platform that helps businesses make better decisions by delivering market and competitive insights. Strategic Planner derives important trends aimed at informed business decisions by providing understanding of critical information about their customer’s market and competitors.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Findwise AB

Gothenburg, Sweden
Category Company
Founded 2005
Sector Information Technology
Revenue 107M SEK (2017)
DESCRIPTION

Findwise AB is an IT consultant specialising in enterprise search, search driven technology, information management and big data analytics. By increasing data quality and transforming information to an asset, we help you reach findability – right information, to the right person, at the right time. Findwise AB was established in 2005 and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Information Technology M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: Sweden M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2014 M&A 1 of 1
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