Investment Summary

TPE Boulder and TPG Invest In MarketTools

On January 1, 2007, private equity firms TPE Boulder and TPG invested in business services company MarketTools for 60M USD

Investment Highlights
  • This is TPE Boulder’s 4th and TPG’s 4th transaction in the Business Services sector.
  • This is TPE Boulder’s and TPG’s 104th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is TPE Boulder’s 15th and TPG’s 64th transaction in the United States.
  • This is TPE Boulder’s 6th and TPG’s 22nd transaction in California.
Investment Fate
  • MarketTools was sold to a strategic buyer in 2011.
  • MarketTools was sold to a strategic buyer in 2012.

Investment Summary
Date 2007-01-01
Target MarketTools
Sector Business Services
Investor(s) TPE Boulder
TPG
Deal Type Venture
Deal Value 60M USD

Target

MarketTools

San Francisco, California, United States
MarketTools, Inc. provides services and software for market research.

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Investor(S) 2

Investor

TPE Boulder

Braintree, Massachusetts, United States
Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1997
PE ASSETS 200M USD
Size Small
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

TPE Boulder is a private equity firm focused on small buyout and growth equity investments in profitable healthcare and software companies. TPE will consider minority or control positions and targets companies with $4 to $40 million in revenue and at least $1.5 million of EBITDA. Specific areas of interest include healthcare services, healthcare IT, healthcare payment management systems, enterprise software, SaaS, and Internet B2B companies. TPE Boulder was formed in 1997 and has offices in Braintree, Massachusetts, and Boulder, Colorado.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 15 of 25
Sector (Business Services) 4 of 5
Type (Venture) 9 of 12
State (California) 6 of 8
Country (United States) 15 of 25
Year (2007) 1 of 3
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2006-11-30 EstudySite

La Mesa, California, United States

EstudySite is an outsourced pharmaceutical service conducting Phase II and Phase III clinical trials in acute care inpatient facilities and outpatient CNS facilities. EstudySite was founded in 1999 and is based in La Mesa, California.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-01-11 Affinity Express

Elgin, Illinois, United States

Affinity Express is the provider of outsourced graphic services for the printing, embroidery and promotional products industries. Affinity formats graphics, photos and written copy to produce digital, production-ready files for printing, posting to web sites, embroidery, screen-printing or other output, covering the workflow between the concept and printing or production.

Sell -
Investor

TPG

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1992
PE ASSETS 137.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

TPG Capital is a global, mega-sized private investment firm that manages a family of funds focused on private equity, real estate, venture capital, public equity and debt investing. TPG invests in opportunities across a broad range of industries and geographies. TPG generally seeks to invest in established businesses that can benefit from the Firm's operational experience and connections. Industries of interest include consumer, retail, healthcare, industrials, digital media, natural resources, energy, real estate, technology, and software. TPG was formerly known as Texas Pacific Group and was originally established in 1992 by David Bonderman, James Coulter and William Price. The Firm is based in Forth Worth, Texas with additional offices in Europe, Asia, and Australia.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 89 of 421
Sector (Business Services) 4 of 14
Type (Venture) 23 of 94
State (California) 22 of 85
Country (United States) 64 of 276
Year (2007) 1 of 20
Size (of disclosed) 104 of 105
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2006-12-19 Aleris International

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Aleris International is a producer of aluminum rolled products and extrusions, aluminum recycling and specification alloy production. Major customers include some of the world’s largest companies in the aerospace, building and construction, containers and packaging, metal distribution, and transportation industries. Aleris serves these customers with its low-cost, flexible, technically advanced and strategically located manufacturing operations supported by industry-leading research and development.

Buy $3.3B
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-01-02 Shriram City

Chennai, India

Shriram City is a Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) and is a part of Shriram Group. Shriram City is providing specialized services in retail & Micro Small & Medium Enterprise (MSME) lending. Shriram City was formed in 1986 and is based in Chennai, India.

Buy -
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