Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) • Information Technology

Trident Capital Acquires MerchantE

On February 1, 2000, Trident Capital acquired information technology company MerchantE

Acquisition Context
  • This is Trident Capital’s 4th transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is Trident Capital’s 10th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Trident Capital’s 2nd transaction in California.
Investment Fate
  • MerchantE was sold to a publicly-traded strategic buyer in 2012 for 670M USD.
  • MerchantE was divested to a consortium of strategic buyers in 2022.

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M&A Deal Summary

Date February 1, 2000
Target MerchantE
Sector Information Technology
Buyer(s) Trident Capital
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)

Target Company

MerchantE

Redwood Shores, California, United States
MerchantE is an end-to-end digital commerce platform that provides payment processing and solutions to businesses of all sizes in the United States. MerchantE was founded in 1999 and is based in Redwood Shores, California.
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Buyer Overview 1

Buyer

Trident Capital

San Mateo, California, United States

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1993
PE ASSETS 1.9B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

Trident Capital was a venture capital firm focused on investments at all company stages, from early and expansion stage investments to buyouts and recapitalizations. Trident focused on investments in tech-enabled sectors, including enterprise software/services, outsourcing and payments, healthcare software/services, internet/consumer, and energy/clean tech. In 2015, Trident ceased investing and the Firm's employees split to form Sunstone Partners, a growth equity firm, and Trident Capital Cybersecurity, a venture firm focused on the cyber security sector.


Deal Context for Buyer #
Overall 10 of 86
Sector: Information Technology 4 of 20
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) 3 of 8
State: California 2 of 29
Country: United States 10 of 78
Year: 2000 4 of 7
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2000-02-01 Infotrieve

Wilton, Connecticut, United States

Infotrieve is a provider of integrated solution provider for scientific, technical and medical (STM) content management worldwide. Infotrieve specializes in delivering articles and reports from scholarly and professional journals, conference proceedings, standards documentation and more, delivering more than 1 million articles annually.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2000-02-16 IPIX

Reston, Virginia, United States

IPIX is a virtual tour service for the Internet.

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