Venture • Marketing

The Carlyle Group Invests In Rhythm NewMedia

On October 30, 2006, private equity firm The Carlyle Group invested in marketing company Rhythm NewMedia

Investment Context
  • This is The Carlyle Group’s 4th transaction in the Marketing sector.
  • This is The Carlyle Group’s 153rd transaction in the United States.
  • This is The Carlyle Group’s 29th transaction in California.
Investment Fate
  • Rhythm NewMedia was sold to a publicly-traded strategic buyer in 2013 for 65M USD.

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Investment Summary

Date October 30, 2006
Target Rhythm NewMedia
Sector Marketing
Investor(s) The Carlyle Group
Deal Type Venture

Target Company

Rhythm NewMedia

Mountain View, California, United States
Rhythm NewMedia, Inc. is a company enabling ad-supported mobile media, end-to-end. Rhythm’s solution is designed to support advertising on mobile video, WAP/HTML, mobile search, and mobile messaging.
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Investor Overview 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 Context for Investor #
Overall 253 of 750
Sector: Marketing 4 of 15
Type: Venture 51 of 58
State: California 29 of 54
Country: United States 153 of 350
Year: 2006 44 of 51
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2006-10-15 Open Solutions

Glastonbury, Connecticut, United States

Open Solutions LLC is a provider of software and software-enabled outsourcing solutions to banks, thrifts and credit unions.

Buy $1.3B
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2006-11-01 Plateno Hotels Group Co .

Guangzhou, China

Plateno Hotel Group is a economy and mid-tierhotel chain operator in China.

Buy -