M&A Deal Summary

Shrink Nano Acquires Nanopoint

On April 11, 2011, Shrink Nano acquired medical products company Nanopoint from Advantage Capital Partners

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Shrink Nano’s 1st transaction in the Medical Products sector.
  • This is Shrink Nano’s 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is Shrink Nano’s 1st transaction in Hawaii.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2011-04-11
Target Nanopoint
Sector Medical Products
Buyer(s) Shrink Nano
Sellers(s) Advantage Capital Partners
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Nanopoint

Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Nanopoint develops and markets unique cellular imaging systems for the life sciences market. Nanopoint's cellTRAY®-based solutions are miniaturized cell culture and imaging systems for live cell-based assays. Nanopoint was founded in 2002 and is based in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Shrink Nano

United States

Category Company
Sector Information Technology
DESCRIPTION

Shrink Nano is an innovative high technology company focusing on leveraging contributions from experts in Finance, Industry, Government, and Academia. Operating as a high-technology development-stage company, Shrink licenses, owns, and in all cases develops proprietary and patent-pending nano-sized technologies, components, and production systems for a number of leading-edge technology markets of varying sizes.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Medical Products M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 1
State: Hawaii M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2011 M&A 1 of 1

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Advantage Capital Partners

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Growth Capital Firm
Founded 1992
PE ASSETS 2.6B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Advantage Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused on providing growth capital to a variety of companies. The Firm's geographic coverage includes Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Texas, Wisconsin and Washington DC. Advantage looks to initially commit $0.5 to $2 million per investment and can provide mezzanine debt in addition to equity capital. Areas of interest include communications, information technology, life science, and energy. Advantage Capital was formed in 1992 and is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 39 of 113
Sector: Medical Products M&A 5 of 9
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 14 of 66
State: Hawaii M&A 2 of 2
Country: United States M&A 39 of 113
Year: 2011 M&A 3 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-03-15 Floop

Woodbridge, Connecticut, United States

Floop is a real-time interactive social network for mobile, iPad, and the web that lets users express opinions and see what their friends and the world think. Floop was founded in 2010 and is based in Woodbridge, Connecticut.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-04-21 SensorTran

Austin, Texas, United States

SensorTran is an ISO 9001 certified, global supplier of fiber optic-based distributed monitoring solutions. Customers benefiting from SensorTran's distributed temperature sensing (DTS) technology include many of the world's largest energy providers. DTS systems, which can be customized for any language, have applications in downhole oil and gas, transmission and distribution power cable monitoring, pipeline flow assurance and leak detection, and environmental monitoring.

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