M&A Deal Summary

Network General Central Acquires Fidelia Technology

On February 6, 2005, Network General Central acquired software company Fidelia Technology from Windspeed Ventures

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Network General Central’s 1st transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Network General Central’s 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is Network General Central’s 1st transaction in New Jersey.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2005-02-06
Target Fidelia Technology
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Network General Central
Sellers(s) Windspeed Ventures
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Fidelia Technology

Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Fidelia Technology, Inc. offers NetVigil, an information technology (IT) infrastructure monitoring application that monitors the end-to-end delivery of business services across networks, systems, and applications.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Network General Central

San Jose, California, United States

Category Company
Sector Software
DESCRIPTION

Network General Central Corporation develops and supplies packet solutions for enterprise application and network performance analysis and management.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Software M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 1
State: New Jersey M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2005 M&A 1 of 1

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Windspeed Ventures

Bedford, Massachusetts, United States

Investor Investor Investor


Category Venture Capital Firm
Founded 1999
Size Small
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Windspeed Ventures is a private investment firm focused on early stage growth capital investments in newly formed high technology businesses. The Firm targets opportunities high technology, communications, security, media, and internet services. Prospective companies are generally just beginning to see revenue. Windspeed prefers businesses located in the Northeast US, but on occasion will consider investing in companies located elsewhere. Windspeed Ventures was formed in 1999 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 9
Sector: Software M&A 1 of 3
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 2 of 6
State: New Jersey M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 2 of 8
Year: 2005 M&A 1 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-11-09 Cimpress

Dundalk, Ireland

Cimpress is a provider of printer and graphic design agency serving the small business and consumer markets. Cimpress’ portfolio of brands that include Vistaprint, Albelli, Drukwerkdeal, Pixartprinting and others serve many customer segments across many applications for mass customization. Cimpres was founded in 1994 and is based in Dundalk, Ireland.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2005-05-05 THINQ Learning Solutions

Redwood Shores, California, United States

Enterprise software for learning management (Acquired by SABA)

Sell -