Investment Summary

Needham Capital Partners Invests In Clarity Visual Systems

On September 20, 2000, private equity firm Needham Capital Partners invested in technology hardware company Clarity Visual Systems

Investment Highlights
  • This is Needham Capital Partners’ 4th transaction in the Technology Hardware sector.
  • This is Needham Capital Partners’ 27th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Needham Capital Partners’ 1st transaction in Oregon.
Investment Fate
  • Clarity Visual Systems was sold to a strategic buyer in 2006.

Investment Summary

Date 2000-09-20
Target Clarity Visual Systems
Sector Technology Hardware
Investor(s) Needham Capital Partners
Deal Type Stake Purchase

Target

Clarity Visual Systems

Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Clarity Visual Systems, Inc. is a developer of network-enabled display systems for retail signage and data visualization applications.

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Investor(S) 1

Investor

Needham Capital Partners

New York, New York, United States

Category Private Equity Firm
PE ASSETS 750M USD
Size Middle-Market
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Needham Capital Partners is the private equity affiliate of mid-market investment bank Needham & Company. Needham Capital targets investments in clean technology, communications, consumer, financial services, healthcare, semiconductor, enterprise software/storage, networking, and industrial service companies. The Firm prefers to act as the lead investor and has a target investment size of $2 to $10 million. Investment proceeds are typically used to finance growth, or fund management buyouts/recapitalizations. Prospective companies are generally located in the US. Needham Capital Partners is based in New York City, with additional offices in Boston, Menlo Park, and San Francisco.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 27 of 53
Sector: Technology Hardware M&A 4 of 5
Type: Stake Purchase M&A Deals 9 of 13
State: Oregon M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 27 of 53
Year: 2000 M&A 6 of 6
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2000-08-01 Pharsight

Mountain View, California, United States

Pharsight Corp. develops and markets information technology for managing the scientific aspects of the clinical phase of the pharmaceutical development process.

Sell -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2000-10-06 Rapid Logic

Alameda, California, United States

Rapid Logic, Inc. develops software products and services that enable embedded network device vendors to offer configuration, management and monitoring capabilities of their products in an open systems environment.

Sell $58M