Private Equity
Doug Carlisle of Menlo Ventures discusses Red Hat's acquisition of Ansible and his outlook for the DevOps industry.
3 min read · 16 October 2015
Red Hat has acquired Durham, North Carolina-based Ansible, an open source automation company, the latter announced in a blog post on its site. No financial terms were disclosed. Ansible's backers included Menlo Ventures.
1 min read · 16 October 2015
Roche has agreed to buy Adheron Therapeutics for $105 million. The deal includes $475 million in additional contingent payments based on achievement of certain predetermined milestones. Berkeley, California-based Adheron is a biotechnology company. Adheron investors include Health Care Ventures, MedImmune Ventures, Partners Innovation Fund, Amgen Ventures, and SROne.
3 min read · 09 October 2015
HomeAway Inc has acquired Dwellable, an online vacation rental search engine and app. No financial terms were disclosed. Dwellable was backed by Version One Ventures and Maveron.
3 min read · 07 October 2015
CyberArk has acquired Waltham, Massachusetts-based Viewfinity Inc, a provider of privilege management and application control software, for $30.5 million in cash. The deal is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of this year. Viewfinity's backers included Longworth Venture Partners, Giza Venture Capital and JK&B Capital.
4 min read · 07 October 2015
Music discovery platform Pandora has agreed to acquire San Francisco-based ticketing platform Ticketfly for about $450 million. Ticketfly’s backers included Sapphire Ventures, Riverwood Capital, Northgate Capital and Cross Creek Capital.
5 min read · 07 October 2015
Hepalink USA Inc. has acquired Cytovance Biologics Inc., a portfolio company of Great Point Partners, for $205.68 million in cash. Oklahoma City-based Cytovance makes protein and antibody drugs for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.
3 min read · 07 October 2015
Venture-backed exits remained soft in the third quarter with 90 M&A deals and 13 IPOs in the United States, according to a report by Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association.
4 min read · 01 October 2015
Barracuda Networks has agreed to buy Intronis Inc, a provider of data protection solutions to managed service providers. No financial terms were disclosed. Intronis' backers included Greenspring Associates and OpenView Venture Partners.
5 min read · 30 September 2015
IBM has acquired Meteorix, a provider of workday implementation, optimization and integration services for mid-market companies. No financial terms were disclosed. Clearsight Advisors advised Meteorix on the transaction. Meteorix was backed by Momentum Equity Partners.
3 min read · 29 September 2015
