Investment Summary

Sunstone Partners and Thoma Bravo Invest In UserZoom

On January 1, 2015, growth capital firm Sunstone Partners and private equity firm Thoma Bravo invested in information technology company UserZoom

Investment Highlights
  • This is Sunstone Partners’ 1st and Thoma Bravo’s 13th transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is Sunstone Partners’ 1st and Thoma Bravo’s 41st transaction in the United States.
  • This is Sunstone Partners’ 1st and Thoma Bravo’s 11th transaction in California.

Investment Summary

Date 2015-01-01
Target UserZoom
Sector Information Technology
Investor(s) Sunstone Partners
Thoma Bravo
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

UserZoom

Los Gatos, California, United States
UserZoom is a Digital User Experience Insights System through its platform, participant recruitment engine and professional services provide the in-depth quantitative and qualitative insights essential to testing, measuring, and improving digital product experiences at speed and scale throughout the product development lifecycle. It helps businesses connect insights to their most important performance metrics, so they can make confident, customer-focused decisions that drive growth and deliver competitive advantage. With operations in North America and Europe, the company helps global brands such as Google, Oracle, Aetna, Santander, News UK, and half of the Fortune 100 raise the bar for an outstanding digital experience. UserZoom was founded in 2007 and is based in Los Gatos, California.

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Investor(S) 2

Investor

Sunstone Partners

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Growth Capital Firm
Founded 2015
PE ASSETS 800M USD
Size Middle-Market
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

Sunstone Partners is a private investment firm focused on growth equity investments in and majority buyouts of tech companies. The Firm targets opportunities throughout North American and seeks businesses with at least $10 million in revenues and at least 20% of yearly growth. Sunstone Partners was formed in 2015 from a team that previously worked together at Trident Capital. The Firm is based in San Mateo, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 16
Sector (Information Technology) 1 of 7
Type (Growth Capital) 1 of 13
State (California) 1 of 5
Country (United States) 1 of 15
Year (2015) 1 of 1
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-04-18 NetSPI

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

NetSPI is a provider of application and network security testing solutions that support organizations in scaling and operationalizing their threat and vulnerability management programs. NetSPI's clients consist of financial institutions, healthcare providers, retailers, and technology companies. NetSPI was founded in 2001 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Investor

Thoma Bravo

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1980
PE ASSETS 127.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Thoma Bravo is a private equity firm that primarily invests in or acquires US-based middle-market businesses. While Thoma Bravo will consider a variety of transaction situations, including take-privates, buyouts, carve-outs, recapitalizations, and growth equity financings, the Firm has a special interest in tech consolidation opportunities. Target companies generally have a history of profitability with EBITDA of at least $20 million. The Firm's equity commitment size range is $100 to $750 million. Sectors of interest include enterprise and infrastructure software, education, distribution, financial services and consumer goods/services. The Firm will not invest in new inventions or technologies, developmental products or services, start-ups, biotech, motion pictures, distressed businesses, oil/gas, or real estate. Thoma Bravo was formerly known as Thoma Cressey Bravo and before that Golder Thoma & Co. The Firm was originally formed in 1980 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 42 of 140
Sector (Information Technology) 13 of 37
Type (Growth Capital) 3 of 17
State (California) 11 of 31
Country (United States) 41 of 120
Year (2015) 1 of 8
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-11-20 Attachmate

Seattle, Washington, United States

Attachmate Corp. is a provider of advanced software for terminal emulation, legacy modernization, managed file transfer and enterprise fraud management.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-01-05 Tripwire

Portland, Oregon, United States

Tripwire provides automated compliance and security management software solutions to enterprises and governments worldwide. The company’s solutions enable customers to secure highly sensitive data within their IT environments by detecting malicious changes made to hardware and software systems housing the data and remediating the change to ensure IT compliance is maintained. Tripwire is based in Portland, Oregon.

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