Private Equity
Photobucket Corp has acquired Pleasanton, California-based Milyoni, a provider of social videos and maker of Madcards. No financial terms were disclosed. Milyoni's backers included Oak Investment Partners, ATA Ventures and Thomvest Ventures.
3 min read · 24 April 2015
ClassPass has acquired San Francisco-based Fitmob, a developer of an app that connects users with workouts in their area. No financial terms were disclosed. ClassPass is backed by investors that include General Catalyst and Thrive Capital while Fitmob's backers included Mayfield Fund and Silicon Valley Bank.
3 min read · 24 April 2015
Interactive Brokers has agreed to acquire online investing marketplace Covestor. No financial terms were disclosed. Covestor's backers included Union Square Ventures,Spark Capital, Amadeus Capital and Bay Partners.
3 min read · 24 April 2015
MakeMyTrip has acquired Mygola, the latter announced in a blog post on its site. No financial terms were disclosed. Based in Chevy Chase, Maryland and Bangalore, Mygola is an online travel guide. Its backers included 500 Startups, Blumberg Capital and Helion Venture Partners.
1 min read · 23 April 2015
Fyber Gmbh, a subsidiary of RNTS Media N.V., has acquired German ad tech company Falk Realtime Ltd for a consideration of 10.75 million euros in cash and shares. The transaction is expected to close in the spring of 2015. Falk Realtime's backers included Revel Partners.
3 min read · 23 April 2015
Canon Europe has acquired London-based Lifecake, a photo-sharing app for families. No financial terms were disclosed. Lifecake's backers included Balderton Capital.
2 min read · 23 April 2015
IBM has acquired Cleveland-based Explorys, a data analytics platform provider for the healthcare industry. No financial terms were disclosed. Explorys was backed by Heritage Group.
3 min read · 20 April 2015
Engine Yard has bought OpDemand, a maker of Deis, an open source application platform for Docker. No financial terms were disclosed. Engine Yard is backed by Benchmark, New Enterprise Associates, Oracle and Amazon.
2 min read · 14 April 2015
Professional social network operator LinkedIn Corp (LNKD.N) said it would buy privately held online education company lynda.com in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $1.5 billion.
1 min read · 09 April 2015
Facial biometrics company Kairos has acquired IMRSV, a provider of audience analytics. No financial terms were disclosed. Kairos' backers include Kapor Capital, New World Angels, VenVelo, Quotidian Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Eniac Ventures, 500 Startups and TechStars.
2 min read · 06 April 2015
