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Top 20 Deals for 2013

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 Pinterest 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 Google Marketing Acquisition
20 $125,000,000 Lending Club Google, Foundation Capital Software & Services Investment

More information

  1. Confirmed: Yahoo! Acquires Tumblr for $1.1BN (FinSMEs)
  2. Canadian Internet Provider Rogers Buys Mountain Cablevision, Wireless Spectrum Licenses From Shaw (Techcrunch)
  3. China’s 360Buy Unwraps Massive New Funding Round of $700 Million (Tech In Asia)
  4. Sina Weibo, China’s Equivalent of Facebook and Twitter, Gets $586M Investment From Alibaba (Techcrunch)
  5. Ingenico Agrees To Acquire European Online Payment Services Provider, Ogone, For €360M To Build Out Multi-Channel Payments Strategy (Techcrunch)
  6. Cisco acquires Intucell for US$475m (SiliconRepublic)
  7. SurveyMonkey Raises $800M in Debt and Equity Financing (FinSMEs)
  8. Cadence to Acquire Tensilica (Market Wire)
  9. Baidu Confirms $370M Purchase Of PPS, Underscoring Online Video’s Importance For Internet Companies Around The World (Techcrunch)
  10. Cisco Is Buying Ubiquisys For $310M For A Big Move Into Mobile Coverage With Femtocells And Small Cells (Techcrunch)
  11. Big Data Analytics Specialist Tableau Software Raises $254M In IPO, Shares Close 64% Up; Marketo’s First Day Up 78% To $23.10 (Techcrunch)
  12. AirWatch Raises $200 Million In Series A (Pulse 2)
  13. Pinterest Raises $200M in Funding (FinSMEs)
  14. M2 Telecommunications acquires ISP Dodo for A$203.9m and junior telco Eftel for A$44.1m, 5*FY14 EBITDA (Australian Technology Transactions)
  15. Opera buys Skyfire for $155M to trim carriers’ mobile video burden (VentureBeat)
  16. SevOne To Go For IPO, Raises $150 Million From Bain Capital To Expand P2P IT Monitoring (Techcrunch)
  17. MYOB acquires NZ firm for $136m (The Channel)
  18. Supercell Raises $130M in Funding (FinSMEs)
  19. Google Acquires Channel Intelligence For $125M To Boost Product Referrals And E-Commerce With Users (Techcrunch)
  20. Readying For An IPO, Peer-To-Peer Lending Marketplace Lending Club Raises $125M From Google And Others At $1.6B Valuation (Techcrunch)

Top 20 Deals for 2013

Deal No. Amount Paid (USD) Company Investor/Buyer Sector Deal Type
1 $710,000,000 Mountain Cablevision Rogers Communications Hardware & Infrastructure Acquisition
2 $700,000,000 360Buy Ontario Teachers’ Retirement Fund, Kingdom Holdings Ecommerce Investment
3 $586,000,000 Sina Weibo Alibaba Media Investment
4 $485,723,000 Ogone Ingenico Software & Services Acquisition
5 $475,000,000 Intucell Cisco Hardware & Infrastructure Acquisition
6 $450,000,000 SurveyMonkey Consortium Marketing Investment
7 $380,000,000 Tensilica Cadence Hardware & Infrastructure Acquisition
8 $310,000,000 Ubiquisys Cisco Hardware & Infrastructure Acquisition
9 $200,000,000 AirWatch Insight Venture Partners Software & Services Investment
10 $200,000,000 Pinterest Consortium Media Investment
11 $155,000,000 Skyfire Opera Hardware & Infrastructure Acquisition
12 $150,000,000 SevOne Bain Capital Hardware & Infrastructure Investment
13 $130,000,000 Supercell Consortium Games Investment
14 $125,000,000 Channel Intelligence Google Marketing Acquisition
15 $120,000,000 mFoundry FIS Software & Services Acquisition
16 $120,000,000 NexGen Storage Fusion-io Software & Services Acquisition
17 $110,000,000 LivingSocial Undisclosed Ecommerce Investment
18 $105,000,000 Ingenuity Systems Qiagen N.V. Hardware & Infrastructure Acquisition
19 $105,000,000 Marin Software Undisclosed Software & Services Public
20 $105,000,000 Pivotal Labs GE Software & Services Investment

More information

  1. Canadian Internet Provider Rogers Buys Mountain Cablevision, Wireless Spectrum Licenses From Shaw (Techcrunch)
  2. China’s 360Buy Unwraps Massive New Funding Round of $700 Million (Tech In Asia)
  3. Sina Weibo, China’s Equivalent of Facebook and Twitter, Gets $586M Investment From Alibaba (Techcrunch)
  4. Ingenico Agrees To Acquire European Online Payment Services Provider, Ogone, For €360M To Build Out Multi-Channel Payments Strategy (Techcrunch)
  5. Cisco acquires Intucell for US$475m (SiliconRepublic)
  6. SurveyMonkey Raises $800M in Debt and Equity Financing (FinSMEs)
  7. Cadence to Acquire Tensilica (Market Wire)
  8. Cisco Is Buying Ubiquisys For $310M For A Big Move Into Mobile Coverage With Femtocells And Small Cells (Techcrunch)
  9. AirWatch Raises $200 Million In Series A (Pulse 2)
  10. Pinterest Raises $200M in Funding (FinSMEs)
  11. Opera buys Skyfire for $155M to trim carriers’ mobile video burden (Venture Beat)
  12. SevOne To Go For IPO, Raises $150 Million From Bain Capital To Expand P2P IT Monitoring (Techcrunch)
  13. Supercell Raises $130M in Funding (FinSMEs)
  14. Google Acquires Channel Intelligence For $125M To Boost Product Referrals And E-Commerce With Users (Techcrunch)
  15. Mobile Banking And Payment Startup mFoundry Sold To FIS For $120M On $165M Valuation (Techcrunch)
  16. Fusion-io Acquires NexGen Storage for $120M (FinSMEs)
  17. LivingSocial Raises $110M, Reports Say (FinSMEs)
  18. Qiagen N.V. Acquires Ingenuity Systems for $105,000,000 (Xconomy)
  19. Ad-Tech Specialist Marin Software Raises $105M In IPO As Shares Pop 40%, But Now Under $18 (TechCrunch)
  20. GE Puts $105M Into Pivotal, The New EMC And VMware Platform Initiative, But Here’s What It Is Missing (Techcrunch)

Top Rest of the World Deals for 2012

Deal No. Amount Paid (USD) Company Investor/Buyer Sector Deal Type
1 $40,000,000 Nolio Consortium Software & Services Acquisition
2 $26,500,000 Linio Summit Partners Ecommerce Investment
3 $26,000,000 Jumia Summit Partners Ecommerce Investment
4 $20,000,000 Mobly The Cisneros Group Ecommerce Investment
5 $14,500,000 Treato Consortium Software & Services Investment
6 $13,000,000 Zerto Consortium Software & Services Investment
7 $10,100,000 Bebê W7 Brazil Capital, Atomico Ecommerce Investment
8 $9,000,000 Reduxio Systems JVP, Carmel Ventures Software & Services Investment
9 $5,500,000 Assured Labor Consortium Transactions Investment
10 $5,500,000 Kekanto W7 Brazil Capital Media Investment
11 $4,500,000 JethroData Pitango Venture Capital Software & Services Investment
12 $3,000,000 GetNinjas Consortium Transactions Investment
13 $3,000,000 Kids Games Club TabTale Games Acquisition
14 $3,000,000 Upstream Commerce YL Ventures, Bright Capital Software & Services Investment
15 $2,600,000 iFood Movile Transactions Investment
16 $2,500,000 SimilarGroup Consortium Software & Services Investment
17 $2,000,000 Dynamic Yield Consortium Software & Services Investment
18 $1,500,000 StartWire Baird Venture Partners Software & Services Investment
19 $1,300,000 Getonic Consortium Software & Services Investment
20 $1,000,000 MyPermissions Consortium Mobile & Apps Investment

More information

  1. Report: CA Technologies To Buy Enterprise App Deployment And Management Company Nolio For Over $40M (Techcrunch)
  2. Rocket Internet’s Linio, The Amazon Of Latin America, Raises $26.5M From Summit Partners. Rinse And Repeat. (TechCrunch)
  3. Summit Partners Puts $26M Into Samwer Brothers’ African Amazon Clone Jumia (TechCrunch)
  4. Mobly, Rocket Internet’s Home Furnishings Site In Brazil, Raises Up To $20M From LatAm Media Giant Cisneros Group (Techcrunch)
  5. Treato Secures $14.5M in Funding (FinSMEs)
  6. Zerto Closes $13M Series C Financing (FinSMEs)
  7. Bebê Store Raises R$20M Series B Funding (FinSMEs)
  8. Reduxio Systems Raises $9M in Series A Funding (FinSMEs)
  9. Assured Labor Raises $5.5M To Find Jobs For Workers Across Latin America (Techcrunch)
  10. Brazilian social city guide Kekanto raises $5.5m, becomes W7 Brazil Capital’s first investment (The Next Web)
  11. JethroData Raises $4.5M For New Analytics Database That Addresses Hadoop’s Achilles Heel (TechCrunch)
  12. Latam Local Services Marketplace Startup GetNinjas Raises $3M Series A To Get More Nimble By Getting More Developers (Techcrunch)
  13. Youth App Maker TabTale Buys Kids Games Club For $3-4M, Preps New Buying Club Model (TechCrunch)
  14. Upstream Commerce Raises $3M in Funding (FinSMEs)
  15. Movile Invests $2.6 Million In Food Delivery Startup iFood To Build A GrubHub For Brazil (Techcrunch)
  16. SimilarGroup Raises $2.5 Million To Take On Alexa’s (Often Terrible) Web Rankings With Its New SimilarWeb Service (Techcrunch)
  17. Dynamic Yield Secures $2M in Series A Funding (FinSMEs)
  18. StartWire Closes $1.5M Series B Financing (FinSMEs)
  19. Backed By $1.3M, Social Commerce Startup Getonic Looks Beyond F-Commerce, With ~5,000 SMBs, 15 Corporates Signed Up To Sell (Techcrunch)
  20. MyPermissions Raises $1M in Funding (FinSMEs)