Investment Summary

Northgate Capital Invests In AdMob

On January 1, 2009, private equity firm Northgate Capital invested in software company AdMob

Investment Highlights
  • This is Northgate Capital’s 1st transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Northgate Capital’s 6th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Northgate Capital’s 6th transaction in California.
Investment Fate
  • AdMob was divested to a consortium of buyers in 2009 for 750M USD.

Investment Summary

Date 2009-01-01
Target AdMob
Sector Software
Investor(s) Northgate Capital
Deal Type Venture

Target

AdMob

Mountain View, California, United States
AdMob is one of the world's largest mobile advertising networks, offering solutions for discovery, branding and monetization on the mobile web. Mobile devices are a critical media platform and we are building the tools to let every business on earth leverage mobile.

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Investor(S) 1

Investor

Northgate Capital

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2000
PE ASSETS 4.8B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Northgate Capital is a private investment firm focused on venture and private equity investing. The Firm's venture group will consider opportunities globally looks to make direct investments in rapidly growing companies as well as invest in venture funds. Northgate's private equity group looks to provide provide equity and mezzanine capital to growth oriented small and middle-market companies operating in Mexico. Northgate Capital was formed in 2000 and is based in San Francisco, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 6 of 23
Sector: Software M&A 1 of 2
Type: Venture M&A Deals 6 of 17
State: California M&A 6 of 17
Country: United States M&A 6 of 18
Year: 2009 M&A 1 of 4
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DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-11-03 Palo Alto Networks

Santa Clara, California, United States

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-03-26 Proofpoint

Sunnyvale, California, United States

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