M&A Deal Summary

Oracle Acquires Involver

On July 10, 2012, Oracle acquired software company Involver

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Oracle’s 60th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Oracle’s 69th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Oracle’s 33rd transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2012-07-10
Target Involver
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Oracle
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Advisor(s) Shea & Company
Signal Hill Capital (Financial)

Target

Involver

San Francisco, California, United States
Involver is a provider of SML™ (Social Markup Language), a social media development platform that enables developers to create highly customized marketing applications for social media sites and web campaigns.

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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 82 of 132
Sector: Software M&A 60 of 73
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 75 of 124
State: California M&A 33 of 52
Country: United States M&A 69 of 114
Year: 2012 M&A 5 of 11
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-06-05 Collective Intellect

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Collective Intellect is a social media analytics company. Collective Intellect’s cloud-based social intelligence solutions enable organizations to monitor, understand and respond to consumers’ conversations on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-07-19 Skire

Menlo Park, California, United States

Skire is a provider of capital program management and facilities management applications available both in the cloud and on-premise.

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