Top 20 Deals for 2013
May 31, 2013 
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| Deal No. | Amount Paid (USD) | Company | Investor/Buyer | Sector | Deal Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $1,100,000,000 | Tumblr | Yahoo | Media | Acquisition |
| 2 | $710,000,000 | Mountain Cablevision | Rogers Communications | Hardware & Infrastructure | Acquisition |
| 3 | $700,000,000 | 360Buy | Ontario Teachers’ Retirement Fund, Kingdom Holdings | Ecommerce | Investment |
| 4 | $586,000,000 | Sina Weibo | Alibaba | Media | Investment |
| 5 | $485,723,000 | Ogone | Ingenico | Software & Services | Acquisition |
| 6 | $475,000,000 | Intucell | Cisco | Hardware & Infrastructure | Acquisition |
| 7 | $450,000,000 | SurveyMonkey | Consortium | Marketing | Investment |
| 8 | $380,000,000 | Tensilica | Cadence | Hardware & Infrastructure | Acquisition |
| 9 | $370,000,000 | PPS | Baidu | Software & Services | Acquisition |
| 10 | $310,000,000 | Ubiquisys | Cisco | Hardware & Infrastructure | Acquisition |
| 11 | $245,000,000 | Tableau Software | Undisclosed | Software & Services | Public |
| 12 | $200,000,000 | AirWatch | Insight Venture Partners | Mobile & Apps | Investment |
| 13 | $200,000,000 | Consortium | Media | Investment | |
| 14 | $198,630,000 | ISP Dodo | M2 Telecommunications | Hardware & Infrastructure | Acquisition |
| 15 | $155,000,000 | Skyfire | Opera | Hardware & Infrastructure | Acquisition |
| 16 | $150,000,000 | SevOne | Bain Capital | Hardware & Infrastructure | Investment |
| 17 | $136,000,000 | BankLink | MYOB Finance NZ | Software & Services | Acquisition |
| 18 | $130,000,000 | Supercell | Consortium | Games | Investment |
| 19 | $125,000,000 | Channel Intelligence | Marketing | Acquisition | |
| 20 | $125,000,000 | Lending Club | Google, Foundation Capital | Software & Services | Investment |
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- Confirmed: Yahoo! Acquires Tumblr for $1.1BN (FinSMEs)
- Canadian Internet Provider Rogers Buys Mountain Cablevision, Wireless Spectrum Licenses From Shaw (Techcrunch)
- China’s 360Buy Unwraps Massive New Funding Round of $700 Million (Tech In Asia)
- Sina Weibo, China’s Equivalent of Facebook and Twitter, Gets $586M Investment From Alibaba (Techcrunch)
- Ingenico Agrees To Acquire European Online Payment Services Provider, Ogone, For €360M To Build Out Multi-Channel Payments Strategy (Techcrunch)
- Cisco acquires Intucell for US$475m (SiliconRepublic)
- SurveyMonkey Raises $800M in Debt and Equity Financing (FinSMEs)
- Cadence to Acquire Tensilica (Market Wire)
- Baidu Confirms $370M Purchase Of PPS, Underscoring Online Video’s Importance For Internet Companies Around The World (Techcrunch)
- Cisco Is Buying Ubiquisys For $310M For A Big Move Into Mobile Coverage With Femtocells And Small Cells (Techcrunch)
- Big Data Analytics Specialist Tableau Software Raises $254M In IPO, Shares Close 64% Up; Marketo’s First Day Up 78% To $23.10 (Techcrunch)
- AirWatch Raises $200 Million In Series A (Pulse 2)
- Pinterest Raises $200M in Funding (FinSMEs)
- M2 Telecommunications acquires ISP Dodo for A$203.9m and junior telco Eftel for A$44.1m, 5*FY14 EBITDA (Australian Technology Transactions)
- Opera buys Skyfire for $155M to trim carriers’ mobile video burden (VentureBeat)
- SevOne To Go For IPO, Raises $150 Million From Bain Capital To Expand P2P IT Monitoring (Techcrunch)
- MYOB acquires NZ firm for $136m (The Channel)
- Supercell Raises $130M in Funding (FinSMEs)
- Google Acquires Channel Intelligence For $125M To Boost Product Referrals And E-Commerce With Users (Techcrunch)
- Readying For An IPO, Peer-To-Peer Lending Marketplace Lending Club Raises $125M From Google And Others At $1.6B Valuation (Techcrunch)