Investment Summary

The Carlyle Group Invests In Air2Web

On September 25, 2006, private equity firm The Carlyle Group invested in internet software and services company Air2Web

Investment Highlights
  • This is The Carlyle Group’s 14th transaction in the Internet Software and Services sector.
  • This is The Carlyle Group’s 151st transaction in the United States.
  • This is The Carlyle Group’s 2nd transaction in Georgia.
Investment Fate
  • Air2Web was sold to a publicly-traded strategic buyer in 2011 for 19M USD.
  • Air2Web was sold to a strategic buyer in 2011 for 19M USD.

Investment Summary

Date 2006-09-25
Target Air2Web
Sector Internet Software and Services
Investor(s) The Carlyle Group
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

Air2Web

Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Air2Web, Inc. is a developer of mobile messaging and marketing applications and services.

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Investor(S) 1

Investor

The Carlyle Group

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1987
PE ASSETS 435.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION
Carlyle's corporate headquarters on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, DC.
Carlyle's corporate headquarters on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, DC.

The Carlyle Group is a global investment firm that pursues private equity, credit, and real estate investments worldwide. Carlyle's private equity practice practice pursues buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations and buildups, and growth capital financings. With offices in 19 countries, Carlyle can easily target opportunities throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East/North Africa and Latin America. Broad sectors of interest include aerospace, defense, automotive and transportation, consumer, retail, energy and power, financial services, healthcare, industrial, infrastructure, technology services, business services, telecommunications and media. The Carlyle Group was formed in 1987 and is based in Washington DC.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 250 of 750
Sector: Internet Software and Services M&A 14 of 25
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 25 of 114
State: Georgia M&A 2 of 12
Country: United States M&A 151 of 350
Year: 2006 M&A 41 of 51
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2006-09-25 Jazz Semiconductor

Newport Beach, California, United States

Jazz Semiconductor, Inc. was a commercial semiconductor foundry focused on low volume/high mix specialty, analog radio frequency applications.

Sell $260M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2006-10-01 Solsoft SA

Levallois, France

Solsoft SA was a developer and retailer of policy-based network security management solutions.

Sell -