M&A Deal Summary

Peerless Network Acquires IntelePeer

On November 29, 2013, Peerless Network acquired technology hardware company IntelePeer from Convergent Capital Partners and Kennet Partners

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Peerless Network’s 1st transaction in the Technology Hardware sector.
  • This is Peerless Network’s 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is Peerless Network’s 1st transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2013-11-29
Target IntelePeer
Sector Technology Hardware
Buyer(s) Peerless Network
Sellers(s) Convergent Capital Partners
Kennet Partners
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

IntelePeer

San Mateo, California, United States
IntelePeer, Inc. provides a fully managed, on-demand peering infrastructure to exchange voice traffic over IP or legacy TDM networks. Its customers are communications services providers, universities, enterprises and VoiP application developers.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Peerless Network

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Category Company
Founded 2008
Sector Communications
DESCRIPTION

Peerless Network provides agile, cost-effective, and simple-to-deploy voice services, including unified communications-as-a-service, session initiation protocols (SIP) trunking, messaging, APIs and Microsoft Teams integration. Peerless Network was founded in 2008 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Technology Hardware M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 1
State: California M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2013 M&A 1 of 1

Seller(S) 2

SELLER
DESCRIPTION

Convergent Capital is a private investment firm that provides growth and debenture financing to late-stage growth companies. Convergent prefers to commit $3 to $12 million per transaction in businesses with at least $10 million in revenues. Convergent is a generalist investor and will consider businesses in a wide range of industries. Investment funds are typically used to assist growth, but the firm can also structure investments around buyouts, recapitalizations, consolidations, and add-on acquisitions. Convergent is licensed as a SBIC. Convergent Capital was formed in 1999 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 28 of 44
Sector: Technology Hardware M&A 1 of 2
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 6 of 14
State: California M&A 6 of 8
Country: United States M&A 28 of 44
Year: 2013 M&A 4 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-10-01 Bay West

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

Bay West is a customer-focused environmental and industrial services provider, with a four-decade track record of providing value-added solutions to our clients in both the public and private sectors. Bay West was founded in 1974 and is based in St Paul, Minnesota.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-12-03 Tri Star Protector Service Co.

New Caney, Texas, United States

Tri-Star Protector ("Tri-Star") provides an environmental service to upstream oil & gas companies throughout North America and other international markets via the collection, refurbishment, and resale of pipe thread protectors.

Sell -
SELLER

Kennet Partners

London, United Kingdom

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Growth Capital Firm
Founded 1997
PE ASSETS 700M USD
Size Middle-Market
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Kennet Partners is a private investment firm that invests in fast-growing companies providing information technology products and technology-enabled services. Kennet typically commits $10 to $50 million of equity per transaction in companies with revenues up to $50 million. The Firm generally invests in businesses located in Western Europe and the US. In addition to providing growth capital, Kennet also finances private mergers, shareholder liquidity needs, corporate divestitures or spin-outs, and restructuring situations. Kennet Partners was formed in 1997 and is based in London.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 25 of 41
Sector: Technology Hardware M&A 3 of 3
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 21 of 32
State: California M&A 3 of 5
Country: United States M&A 5 of 15
Year: 2013 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-07-31 Kapow Technologies

Palo Alto, California, United States

Kapow Technologies provides an on-demand application ‘mashup’ platform that powers enterprise solutions in reputation management, competitive intelligence, and content integration and migration at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods. Kapow has more than 300 clients such as AT&T, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, CSFB, Intel, Vodafone, Audi, DHL and SimplyHired.

Sell $48M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-02-18 Prolexic Technologies

Hollywood, Florida, United States

Prolexic Technologies IT security provider of Cloud-based cyber defense solutions, such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) detection and mitigation, for the Federal Government and Global 2000 customers.

Sell $370M