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M&A roundup - week ending 12/3/16

by Steven Loeb, December 3, 2016

Twitter bought Yes; Apple acquired Indoor.io; Fandango purchased Cinepapaya

CNN acquired the team behind video-sharing platform Beme. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed. Beme will be shutting down on January 31 of next year, while the 12 person Beme team comes over to CNN. They will be in charge of a new venture, which will be a separate, stand-alone business as part of the CNN Digital portfolio. CNN expects ...

Funding roundup - week ending 11/26/16

by Steven Loeb, November 26, 2016

Oracle acquired Dyn; Tesla completed the deal for SolarCity; Google bought Qwiklabs

Bed Bath & Beyond acquired PersonalizationMall.com, an online retailer of personalized products. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed. PersonalizationMall.com will remain an independent brand under the Bed Bath & Beyond umbrella. There are no plans at this time to have any of the PersonalizationMall.com's workers working at Bed Bath & Beyond. Financial advisor to Bed Bath & Beyond on this ...

Funding roundup - week ending 11/19/16

by Steven Loeb, November 19, 2016

FanDuel and DraftKings merged; Facebook bought FacioMetrics; Hulu acquired The Video Genome Project

Facebook acquired FacioMetrics, a developer of vision-based customer solutions. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed. FacioMetrics products will be shut down and key members of the team, including both founders, de la Torre and CTO Francisco Vicente, have been hired at Facebook. Founded in 2015 as a spin-off company from Carnegie Mellon University, FacioMetrics developed algorithms for facial feature tracking, and ...

M&A roundup - week ending 11/12/16

by Steven Loeb, November 12, 2016

Adobe bought TubeMogul; Google acquired Leapdroid; Facebook acquired CrowdTangle

Tesla acquired Grohmann Engineering, a German engineering firm that specializes in automated manufacturing processes. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed. Going forward, Grohmann Engineering will be renamed as Tesla Grohmann Automation, and it will serve as the initial base for Tesla Advanced Automation Germany headquarters, with other locations to follow. The company will continue to be led by founder and CEO Klaus Grohmann. The purchase will ...

M&A roundup - week ending 11/5/16

by Steven Loeb, November 5, 2016

Spotify acquired Preact; Intel bought VOKE and NAVinci; Broadcom purchased Brocade

Spotify acquired customer success company Preact. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed. Preact will be shutting down. Registration is already disabled and the service will be discontinued. The entire product/engineering team of nine is coming over to Spotify and will be based in San Francisco and New York. Founded in 2012, Preact had raised $12.35 million in venture funding from Atlas Venture, ...

M&A roundup - week ending 10/29/16

by Steven Loeb, October 29, 2016

AT&T bought Time Warner; Groupon acquired LivingSocial; Google purchased Eyefluence

The New York Times Company acquired product recommendation site The Wirecutter and its sibling, The Sweethome. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed. Following the acquisition, Founder Brian Lam will stay on at The Wirecutter in an advisory role, while Jacqui Cheng, editor-in-chief, and Christopher Mascari, product director, will remain in their respective roles. Ben French, vice president of NYT Beta, will serve as interim ...

M&A roundup - week ending 10/22/16

by Steven Loeb, October 22, 2016

Cisco acquired Worklife; Razer bought THX; Proofpoint purchased FireLayers

OLS Holding acquired Omnis from TigerLogic Corporation, a provider of software infrastructure products. The price was $2,000,000, subject to adjustment based on net working capital of the Omnis business on the closing date. OLS Holdings is a company newly formed by a consortium of long-time Omnis distributors and customers for the purpose of acquiring Omnis. The Omnis team is headquartered in the United Kingdom and has ...

M&A roundup - week ending 10/15/16

by Steven Loeb, October 15, 2016

Googe bought FameBit; Morningstar acquired PitchBook; Innofactor purchased Lumagate

Google acquired FameBit, which helps creators and brands find and work with each other through sponsorships and paid promotion. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed. Google’s relationship with brands and YouTube’s partnerships with creators, combined with FameBit’s technology and expertise, will help increase the number of branded content opportunities available, bringing even more revenue into the online video community. Founded ...

M&A roundup - week ending 10/8/16

by Steven Loeb, October 8, 2016

Shopify bought Boltmade; eBay acquired Corrigon; Salesforce purchased Krux; Samsung bought Viv

Commerce platform Shopify acquired product design and development consultancy Boltmade. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed. The Boltmade team will be closing up their contracts with existing customers, and all 21 employees will be coming over to Shopify, where they will become part of the company's enterprise offering, Shopify Plus. Founded in 2013, Boltmade used the Laurence Group as an advisor. ...

M&A roundup - week ending 10/1/16

by Steven Loeb, October 1, 2016

Zomato bought Sparse Labs; The 76ers bought Dignitas and Apex; SAP acquired Plat One

Zomato, a restaurant discovery service, acquired Sparse Labs, a logistics-tech startup that helps restaurants track and optimise their in-house delivery fleet. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed. Last year, Zomato began expanding into delivery, with the launch of Zomato Order, and, so far, it has been a big success. In the month of May, the company processed over 750,000 orders, and is ...

M&A roundup - week ending 9/24/16

by Steven Loeb, September 24, 2016

Facebook bought Nascent Object; Airbnb acquired Trip4real; Google purchased Api.ai

Facebook acquired ,modular consumer electronics platform Nascent Objects. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed. Baback Elmieh, CEO of Nascent Objects, and his team will be joining Building 8, a research lab formed earlier this year to focus on the hardware it is building, which is based on Facebook software. Founded in 2014, Nascent Capital had raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Orestone ...

M&A roundup - week ending 9/17/16

by Steven Loeb, September 17, 2016

Glooko merged with Diasend; Salesforce bought gravitytank; Concur acquire Hipmunk

Diabetes monitoring platform Glooko merged with competitor Diasend . No financial terms of the deal were disclosed. The newly merged companies will continue to operate under the name Glooko, with all employees of both companies keeping their jobs. Rick Altinger, Glooko's CEO, will be CEO of the merged organization, while Anders Sonesson, Diasend's CEO, will manage Global Operations for Glooko. All of the ...

M&A roundup - week ending 9/10/16

by Steven Loeb, September 10, 2016

Salesforce acquired HeyWire; Intel bought Movidius; Google purchased Apigee

Intel acquired Movidius, a company that designs specialized low-power processor chips for computer vision. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed. Intel plans to integrate Movidius’ technology with its RealSense depth-sensing camera technology. While being integrated into Intel, Movidius will continue to offer its services to existing customers. Movidius had raised $86.5 million in venture funding, from investors that included AIB Seed Capital, Atlantic ...

M&A roundup - week ending 8/3/16

by Steven Loeb, September 3, 2016

Box bought Wagon; Wayfair acquired Trumpit; Cisco purchased ContainerX,

Box acquired Wagon, a modern SQL editor for analysts and engineers to write queries, visualize results, and share data and charts. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed. Wagon will be shutting down on October 3. After that date, Wagon desktop and Web services will no longer be available, and all data and user accounts will be securely deleted. Until then, ...

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