Private Equity
According to a post on its website, mobile developer Seesaw Decisions has been acquired by Byliner. No financial terms were disclosed. Byliner is a subscription-based service that offers readers short stories by top authors. Seesaw's investors include Freestyle Capital, Baseline Ventures, First Round Capital and Betaworks. To read Seesaw's announcement of its purchase by Byliner, click here.
1 min read · 26 November 2013
Livefyre has acquired Realtidbits. No financial terms were disclosed. Based in San Diego, Realtidbits is a provider of engagement solutions for publishers and media companies. Livefyre is a real-time conversation and social curation platform. It is backed by Greycroft Partners, Hillsven Capital, Zelkova Ventures, ff Venture Capital, Cue Ball and U.S. Venture Partners.
3 min read · 25 November 2013
Livefyre has acquired Realtidbits. No financial terms were disclosed. Based in San Diego, Realtidbits is a provider of engagement solutions for publishers and media companies. Livefyre is a real-time conversation and social curation platform. It is backed by Greycroft Partners, Hillsven Capital, Zelkova Ventures, ff Venture Capital, Cue Ball and U.S. Venture Partners.
3 min read · 22 November 2013
Charles River Ventures and other backers scored a positive return with Aveksa, an identity management software provider acquired by EMC today in a deal reportedly valued at north of $200 million.
2 min read · 08 July 2013
Medical Device company iRhythm Technologies has raised a $6 million Series D round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Existing investors New Leaf Ventures, Synergy Life Science Partners and Kaiser Permanente Ventures also participated.
4 min read · 10 April 2013
Adknowledge has acquired Montipay, doing business as SocialWeekend Labs, which operates a portfolio of Facebook and mobile apps and has built tools to help app developers acquire, engage and retain users. SocialWeekend, which was founded by Shane Walker, Andrew Tso and Fariz Chowdhury, was backed by Great Oaks Venture Capital, Brad Harrison Ventures, and a number of prominent angel investors.
2 min read · 09 April 2013
(Reuters) - Got a tech idea and want to make a fortune before you're out of your teens? Just do it, is the advice of the London schoolboy who's just sold his smartphone news app to Yahoo for a reported $30 million. The money is there, just waiting for clever new moves, said 17-year-old Nick D'Aloisio, who can point to a roster of early backers for his Summly app that includes Horizons Ventures, a venture capital firm owned by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, Yoko Ono and Rupert Murdoch.
3 min read · 26 March 2013
During the year, 2,277 private tech companies were acquired globally, according to a study from CB Insights. While most of the deals were relatively small, or completed without a disclosed transaction value, eight of the companies were purchased for more than $1 billion.
1 min read · 30 January 2013
Espial Group Inc., a global supplier of digital TV and IPTV software and solutions, announced its acquisition of British software firm ANT plc. The deal, which has been estimated at C$8 million, is expected to close in early 2013. Ottawa-based Espial went public in 2007, but it has since received financing from Toronto venture capital firm Relay Ventures.
4 min read · 03 December 2012
SeaFort Capital, a Halifax-based private equity firm, announced this week that it is acquiring its first company, A.W. Leil Cranes, a Nova Scotia-based company providing crane rental and lift services, for an undisclosed sum. The company operates a fleet of over 50 cranes under the trade names A.W. Leil, Sagadore Cranes and Cape Breton Cranes, and has five offices and over 60 employees.
2 min read · 23 November 2012
