Selling to Facebook
Posted by Ben Kolada on February 7, 2012
Contact: Ben Kolada Rather than buy into Facebook after it debuts on the open market, many companies may consider selling to the social networking giant after its IPO. Facebook is already rich with cash, and is about to become much richer. Meanwhile, its M&A strategy has so far focused on acquiring smaller startups for their [...]
And the Golden Tombstone goes to …
Posted by Brenon Daly on December 23, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly It’s time to once again hand out our annual award for Tech Deal of the Year, as voted by corporate development executives in our recent survey. For the second straight year, the voting came down to a tight race between two transactions. For 2011, Google’s planned purchase of Motorola Mobility just edged [...]
The new (unexpected) IPO hotspot
Posted by Brenon Daly on November 30, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly Forget Silicon Valley or New York or even Boston. The new tech IPO hotspot is a place that typically only gets flown over by investment bankers looking in the more traditional locations for the next companies trying to make it public. What’s the exotic and (potentially) lucrative new launch pad? Indianapolis. That’s [...]
Jive talkin’ on Wall Street
Posted by Brenon Daly on August 25, 2011
by Brenon Daly Despite one of the more inhospitable environments for IPOs, Jive Software has put in its paperwork for a $100m offering. The company, which sells a social network for businesses, has seen revenue nearly triple from 2008 to $46m last year. In the first half of this year, Jive has continued its strong [...]
Another marketing maker heading to market?
Posted by Brenon Daly on April 25, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly Will Eloqua respond to Responsys? Does the rival on-demand marketing vendor perhaps have an IPO of its own planned? We couldn’t help but wonder that last Thursday as investors showed that they could hardly get enough of the Responsys offering, which priced above range and then tacked on another 28% in its [...]
A responsible debut valuation for Responsys
Posted by Brenon Daly on April 20, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly Reversing a trend that has seen many of the major marketing software providers disappear inside larger players, Responsys is ready to step out onto the public market. The on-demand company, which filed its IPO paperwork just four months ago, plans to sell 6.6 million shares at $8.50-10 each. It is likely to [...]
The ever-increasing appetite of salesforce.com
Posted by Brenon Daly on March 30, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly Salesforce.com just keeps taking bigger bites. The company announced Wednesday that it will hand over $326m ($276m in cash and $50m in stock) for social-media monitoring company Radian6. Not only is it salesforce.com’s highest-priced acquisition, it also likely brings more revenue than any other deal the company has done, at least based [...]
Big Data means Big Dollars for VCs
Posted by Brenon Daly on March 9, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly Just since last summer, the data-warehousing industry has seen a wave of consolidation sweep most of the sizable startups into the portfolios of larger vendors. While dramatically reshaping the industry, the concentrated dealmaking has also generated outsized returns for venture firms that have put money into some of the startups that are [...]
Meltwater in the market
Posted by Brenon Daly on March 4, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly Having built a $100m business with its core media monitoring offering over the past decade, Meltwater Group is looking at picking up a small company or two this year to speed the development of the company’s next big line of business, CEO Jorn Lyseggen said earlier this week. Speaking at the Pacific [...]
Social CRM: haves and have-nots
Posted by Brenon Daly on May 19, 2010
Contact: Brenon Daly, China Martens Even though social CRM is still an emerging market, the deals have been flowing. And it isn’t just one-off, conventional activity, but just about every conceivable type of transaction: public-to-private deals, private-to-private deals, a private equity-backed rollup and even (apparently) a wind-down. Among the more notable deals in this broadly [...]
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