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Roundup on Q4 2012 & some interesting M&A Deals

We hope you had a great 4th quarter and holiday break! We had a busy quarter at GrowthPoint, closing one M&A transaction, building up our video knowledge base, and adding a new wave of high...

Mozes Acquisition by ePrize

Mozes is a mobile company that engages audiences during concerts, sporting events, and live television broadcasts through social and location-based experiences

#AdTech/MarTech

GrowthPoint’s Quarterly GrowthPoints for Q3 2012

Dear Friends of GrowthPoint, We hope you had a nice summer! After a difficult Q2, this quarter saw stocks recoup their losses despite sluggish growth in employment and business investment. The technology M&A market saw...

GrowthPoint Acted as Exclusive Financial Advisor to Distra on its Acquisition by ACI Worldwide

GrowthPoint Technology Partners, LLC acted as the financial advisor to Distra in their sale to ACI Worldwide, a leading international provider of payment systems. The USD $48.75 million cash transaction closed September 13, 2012. Financial...

GrowthPoint Acted as Exclusive Financial Advisor to Open Kernel Labs on its Acquisition by General Dynamics

GrowthPoint Technology Partners acted as the financial advisor to Open Kernel Labs, Inc. (“OK Labs”) in their sale to General Dynamics (NYSE: GD). The closing of the transaction was announced September 10, 2012. OK Labs...

GrowthPoint Announces Opening Of A London Office

London – GrowthPoint Technology Partners LLC today announced that it has opened an office in London, United Kingdom. GrowthPoint is a technology investment bank with a global footprint, offering advisory services to innovative technology companies....

GrowthPoint has opened an office in Tel Aviv, Israel

GrowthPoint Technology Partners, LLC, an investment bank that is headquartered in Silicon Valley, announced today that it has opened an office in Tel Aviv, Israel. Mr. Adoram Gaash, who recently joined GrowthPoint as a Managing...

Cognovo Acquisition by u-blox

Cognovo specializes in “Software Defined Modem” (SDM) chip development technology.

#2012 #semiconductor

GrowthPoint is now on Twitter…

Stay in the loop with our upcoming events, market analysis, and videos. See Our Tweets. Follow us at @GrowthPointTech. Who are we? GrowthPoint Technology Partners provides research-driven and relationship-focused corporate finance expertise, exclusively to publicly...

Presentation to Nordic Venture Capital Tour on cross-border M&A trends (May 2012)

Of special interest is our original research on M&A cross-border flows, especially from the acquisitions between companies in the US and EU. Also, we have outlined some of the largest overall acquirers. Download this presentation...

Valuation Timing

In the Technology M&A business, we often meet fast-growing companies that have reached a critical “growth point.” In fact, we consider this to be such an interesting and increasingly relevant time in a company’s lifecycle...

Nanda Technologies Acquisition by Nanometrics

Nanda Technologies is a developer of advanced technology in high-throughput, high-sensitivity defect inspection for semiconductor manufacturing

#Semi-Cap Equipment

GrowthPoint Acted as Exclusive Financial Advisor to enStratus on its investment by El Dorado Ventures

Funding led by El Dorado Ventures enables the company to expand the team and extend leadership in enterprise cloud management Minneapolis, MN – enStratus announced today that the company has closed on $3.5M in Series A...

GrowthPoint Acted as Exclusive Financial Advisor to Enxsuite on its Acquisition by Infor

Atlanta, GA – Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, today announced it has acquired the ENXSuite product line. A natural complement to Infor10 EAM‘s convergence of energy and asset management,...

GrowthPoint Acted as Exclusive Financial Advisor to Crescendo Networks on its Acquisition by f5

Crescendo’s core engineering team joins F5, bolsters company’s ADN expertise Seattle, WA – F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced that it has acquired the intellectual property assets of Crescendo Networks....

Qualcomm Acquires Gesture Recognition Assets from GestureTek

San Diego, CA – Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that it has acquired certain assets from GestureTek, a developer of gesture recognition technology. A leader in the gesture recognition field, GestureTek has more than 25 years...

Intalio Completes Financing to Advance Its Private Cloud Business Applications

Intalio Adds VMware as Strategic Investor Palo Alto CA – PRNewswire via COMTEX – Intalio, Inc., the leader in private cloud applications, today announced a new round of venture financing that will enable the company to...

Zeus Acquires German-based Web Application Firewall Company art of defence

Increasing Demand for Innovative Web Application Security in the Cloud is the Driving Force behind the Acquisition Cambridge, UK – Zeus Technology, the pioneers of Application Delivery Controller software, today announced it has purchased the assets...

KIT digital Acquires Kyte, Signaling Era of Video-Driven Social Media

Prague, Czech Republic and New York, NY – KIT digital, Inc. (NASDAQ: KITD), a leading global provider of cloud-based video asset management solutions (VAMS) for multi-screen delivery, has acquired San Francisco-based Kyte. KIT digital acquired privately-held...

Imagination Technologies plc – Acquisition Announcement

Imagination to acquire Caustic Graphics, developer of real-time ray-tracing graphics technology, for $27 million Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG, “Imagination” or “the Group”), a leading multimedia, communications and embedded processor technology company, has signed...