M&A Deal Summary

Oracle Acquires GoldenGate Software

On July 23, 2009, Oracle acquired software company GoldenGate Software from Summit Partners

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Oracle’s 42nd transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Oracle’s 47th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Oracle’s 23rd transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2009-07-23
Target GoldenGate Software
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Oracle
Sellers(s) Summit Partners
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

GoldenGate Software

San Francisco, California, United States
GoldenGate Software, Inc. provides real-time, multi-platform database replication and data integration solutions.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Oracle

Austin, Texas, United States

Category Company
Founded 1977
Sector Software
Employees159,000
Revenue 53.0B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Oracle's headquarters in Austin, Texas.
Oracle's headquarters in Austin, Texas.

Oracle provides products and services that address corporate information technology (IT) environments including applications, platforms, and infrastructure. Its products and services are available to customers via cloud computing or on-premises deployment models. Products include database and middleware software, application software, cloud infrastructure software and hardware systems (Oracle Engineered Systems, servers, storage, networking and industry specific products), along with support and related services. Oracle was formed in 1977 and is based in Austin, Texas.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 56 of 132
Sector: Software M&A 42 of 73
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 50 of 124
State: California M&A 23 of 52
Country: United States M&A 47 of 114
Year: 2009 M&A 5 of 7
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-06-17 Conformia Software

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Conformia's Product and Process Lifecycle Management (PPLM) software has unique capabilities for Life Sciences companies to manage drug design, development and transfer to production across Bio, Pharmaceutical and Chemical drug components.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-09-29 HyperRoll

Mountain View, California, United States

HyperRoll, a leading provider of financial reporting acceleration solutions with interactive reporting capability to support complex data calculation requirements.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Summit Partners

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Growth Capital Firm
Founded 1984
PE ASSETS 45.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Summit Partners is a private investment and asset management firm focused on venture, growth, credit, and public equity investing. Sectors of interest include business services, communications technology and services, consumer products, energy, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, industrial products, internet/information services, media/entertainment, semiconductors, electronics, and software. Summit Partners is known for having a proactive business development group for sourcing transactions. Summit will consider both minority or majority investment stakes and is willing to commit as little as $10 million or as much as $500 million in combined debt/junior capital per transaction. The Firm's geographic coverage spans North America and Europe. Summit Partners was formed in 1984 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 140 of 298
Sector: Software M&A 28 of 55
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 63 of 134
State: California M&A 43 of 64
Country: United States M&A 135 of 258
Year: 2009 M&A 2 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-03-12 Mo Industries Holdings

Los Angeles, California, United States

Based in Los Angeles, Mo Industries a contemporary apparel company that features two high-growth, distinctive brands - the Ella Moss(R) brand offers bold, bright, ultra-feminine contemporary apparel while Splendid offers soft, rich luxury basics for women, men, and children. The striking combination of fabrication and design excellence has resulted in instantly recognizable Ella Moss(R) and Splendid(R) products and has contributed significantly to the Company's success.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-09-25 Martin Group

Mitchell, South Dakota, United States

Martin Group, Inc. provides telecommunications, consulting and engineering services and develops, markets and sells customer care and billing solutions to communications carriers in the United States.

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