Venture • Marine

Trident Capital Invests In boats.com

On January 27, 2000, Trident Capital invested in marine company boats.com

Investment Context
  • This is Trident Capital’s 1st transaction in the Marine sector.
  • This is Trident Capital’s 8th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Trident Capital’s 1st transaction in Virginia.
Investment Fate
  • boats.com was sold to a strategic buyer in 2004.

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Investment Summary

Date January 27, 2000
Target boats.com
Sector Marine
Investor(s) Trident Capital
Deal Type Venture

Target Company

boats.com

Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Boats.com is building the premier e-commerce hub for the marine community. The company will unite boaters, marinas, boatyards, brokers, dealers, service businesses, distributors and manufacturers in a mutual exchange to improve the boating and marine experience.
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Investor Overview 1

Investor

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 Investor #
Overall 8 of 86
Sector: Marine 1 of 1
Type: Venture 4 of 62
State: Virginia 1 of 3
Country: United States 8 of 78
Year: 2000 2 of 7
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2000-01-01 mBlox

Sunnyvale, California, United States

mBlox, Inc. is a provider of cloud-based mobile messaging in the world, trusted by companies to carry their mission-critical traffic.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2000-02-01 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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