Sometimes, good things don’t have to end
There’s a saying that “All good things must come to an end,” but perhaps that’s not always the case. Over the past 17 years, I’ve had the good fortune to turn a hobby into...
Category: Mergers & Acquisitions
Snap Inc. acquires Fund V portfolio co. Metamarkets
We’ve had a busy run of late on the portfolio M&A front. Aquisio, RiskVision, and now San Francisco-based Metamarkets. Metamarkets provides an AI-based big data SaaS platform, delivering an analytics dashboard for programmatic ad...
Web.com acquires Montreal-based Fund V portfolio co. Acquisio
More acquisition news hit the wire last evening. This time it was Acquisio, a Montreal-based Wellington Financial Fund V portfolio co., announcing its tie-up with Web.com, of Jacksonville, Florida. Here’s the release: “Acquisio makes available to small...
Resolver acquires Fund IV portfolio co. RiskVision
It’s not every day that a Canadian-backed firm acquires one of our California-based portfolio companies. As becomes more apparent as the years go by, Canada and the USA have become one market. The acquisition of...
Wellington Financial Provides US$24 Million Debt Financing Commitment to Contract Management Software Company Exari
We are delighted to announce our largest commitment yet: a US$24 million financing to Boston-based Exari, the leading provider of enterprise contract management software. We partnered with Beacon Equity Partners, a private equity firm...
NYSE-listed Xactly to be Acquired by Vista Equity Partners
Is time moving faster, or is it simply a great technology M&A market? News came this morning that our Fund IV portfolio company Xactly (XTLY:NYSE) has agreed to be acquired by Vista Equity Partners...
Mergermarket acquires Fund IV portfolio co. TIM Group
UK-based Mergermarket has announced the recent acquisition of Wellington Financial Fund IV portfolio co. TIM Group. Mergermarket is backed by BC Partners. TIM Group is a SaaS developer of applications serving buyside funds and...
GFI Software acquires Fund IV portfolio co. Exinda
With nine complete exits in 2016, five of which involved M&A transactions, it comes as no surprise that 2017 continues in the same vein. Our second exit of 2017, and first via M&A, is...
CB Insights 2016 Tech report debunks Canadian M&A myth
As the saying goes, if I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it 1,000 times. On the heels of a trip to Ottawa earlier this week, I’m reminded how much bureaucratic advice around Canada’s innovation economy is founded on...
Rogue Wave software acquires Fund IV portfolio co Akana Software
It has been a busy week on the M&A front for our 2012-vintage Fund IV portfolio, and more evidence of the value of Wellington’s non-amortizing growth capital to entrepreneurs and VCs alike. Particularly in anticipation...
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