Investment Summary

WebPros Invests In cPanel

On August 20, 2018, WebPros invested in internet software and services company cPanel

Investment Highlights
  • This is WebPros’ 1st transaction in the Internet Software and Services sector.
  • This is WebPros’ 2nd transaction in the United States.
  • This is WebPros’ 1st transaction in Texas.

Investment Summary

Date 2018-08-20
Target cPanel
Sector Internet Software and Services
Investor(s) WebPros
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

cPanel

Houston, Texas, United States
cPanel's corporate headquarters in Houston, Texas.
cPanel's corporate headquarters in Houston, Texas.
cPanel, Inc. is a provider of web hosting automation software platform with fully-automated hosting platform empowers infrastructure providers and gives customers the ability to administer every facet of their website using simple point-and-click software. cPanel was founded in 1997 and is based in Houston, Texas.

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Investor

WebPros

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Category Company
Sector Internet Software and Services
DESCRIPTION

WebPros is a provider of critical automation and security tools to hosting providers, web agencies and their customers. WebPros was formed through the combination of cPanel and Plesk, the two leading solutions to automate and simplify the management and administration of web servers for hosting providers and web professionals. WebPros is based in Luxembourg.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 3
Sector: Internet Software and Services M&A 1 of 1
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 1 of 1
State: Texas M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 2 of 2
Year: 2018 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-05-02 Plesk

Chantilly, Vermont, United States

Plesk is one of the most widely used control panels and software platforms for simplifying the lives of Web Professionals. Plesk's web-server management tools secure and automate server and website administration as well as operations. Key features include the automation and management of domain names, email accounts, web applications, programming languages, databases and infrastructure tasks to provide a ready-to-code environment and strong security across all layers and operating systems. The Plesk software platform operates on more than 350,000 servers globally, supporting the operations of more than 10 million websites and 18 million email boxes. Plesk is available in 32 languages globally and many of the top cloud and hosting service providers partner with Plesk.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-03-24 Nixstats

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Nixstats is an intelligent server performance and uptime management platform. NIXStats delivers unparalleled insight into server performance and uptime management by leveraging a suite of comprehensive and proprietary technologies tightly integrated into the NIXStats platform. Nixstats was founded in 2016 and is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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