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North America<br />

Exits<br />

Date Company Investors Acquir<strong>in</strong>g Amount Story Sector Location<br />

Name company sold for ($)<br />

2-Dec SEG S<strong>of</strong>tware Undisclosed MajescoMastek Undisclosed MajescoMastek, <strong>the</strong> US subsidiary Policy USA<br />

<strong>of</strong> global technology solutions provider Adm<strong>in</strong>istration<br />

Mastek Limited, has acquired all<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> assets <strong>of</strong> SEG S<strong>of</strong>tware,<br />

a lead<strong>in</strong>g provider <strong>of</strong> policy<br />

adm<strong>in</strong>istration systems.<br />

2-Dec Site Controls Undisclosed Siemens Undisclosed Siemens Industry has acquired Site Bus<strong>in</strong>ess USA<br />

Controls, a company that <strong>of</strong>fers an Applications<br />

end-to-end enterprise energy S<strong>of</strong>tware<br />

management solutions for retail<br />

and commercial bus<strong>in</strong>esses.<br />

2-Dec Xmarks Undisclosed LastPass Undisclosed Makers <strong>of</strong> a lead<strong>in</strong>g cross-platform Internet Search USA<br />

password manager Xmarks has been<br />

acquired by LastPass.<br />

2-Dec Newtoy Undisclosed Zynga Undisclosed Zynga has purchased mobile gam<strong>in</strong>g Gam<strong>in</strong>g USA<br />

developer Newtoy.<br />

3-Dec 4Home Pond Ventures Motorola Undisclosed Motorola has acquired <strong>the</strong> home Mobile USA<br />

and energy management s<strong>of</strong>tware S<strong>of</strong>tware<br />

developer 4Home. Platform<br />

3-Dec CitySquares The eCoast Angel Backyard Undisclosed CitySquares has been acquired by Search USA<br />

Network, Angel <strong>in</strong>vestors Backyard, a firm funded by Google<br />

CEO Eric Schmidt.<br />

3-Dec Ergotron Undisclosed Nortek 280,000,000 Nortek acquires Ergotron, Consumer USA<br />

a global player <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> ergonomics Electronics<br />

<strong>of</strong> display technologies.<br />

3-Dec GridApp Advantage Capital BMC S<strong>of</strong>tware Undisclosed BMC s<strong>of</strong>tware fur<strong>the</strong>rs its acquisitions Database USA<br />

Systems Partners, Ascend with <strong>the</strong> purchase <strong>of</strong> GridApp Systems. Automation<br />

Venture Group<br />

3-Dec Widev<strong>in</strong>e Rovi Corporation, Google Undisclosed Google has acquired Widev<strong>in</strong>e to Video USA<br />

Technologies Constellation Ventures, bolster its own TV efforts. Optimization<br />

Pacesetter Capital<br />

Group, VantagePo<strong>in</strong>t<br />

Venture Partners, Cisco,<br />

Telus, EchoStar,<br />

Samsung Electronics,<br />

Liberty Global<br />

6-Dec Altor Accel Partners, Juniper 95,000,000 Juniper Networks has purchased Security USA<br />

Networks Foundation Capital, Networks Virtualisation security firm<br />

DAG Ventures, Altor Networks.<br />

Juniper Networks,<br />

Foundation Capital<br />

6-Dec Cavalier M/C Venture Partners PAETEC 460,000,000 PAETEC Communications announced Network/ USA<br />

Communications that it has signed a def<strong>in</strong>itive merger Host<strong>in</strong>g<br />

agreement to acquire Cavalier<br />

Telephone Corporation <strong>in</strong> an all-cash<br />

$460 million transaction.<br />

6-Dec Prematics General Catalyst Partners, NaviNet Undisclosed Health-care communications network Medical USA<br />

Foundation Capital NaviNet said it has acquired Prematics, S<strong>of</strong>tware<br />

a company that partners with health and Information<br />

plans to provide medication Services<br />

management services to physicians.<br />

6-Dec TirNua Undisclosed RockYou Undisclosed Social game developer RockYou Gam<strong>in</strong>g USA<br />

is buy<strong>in</strong>g 3D game eng<strong>in</strong>e firm TirNua<br />

as it cont<strong>in</strong>ues its shift from a social<br />

network app developer and ad<br />

platform to a game developer.<br />

6-Dec Xanboo AT&T, Credit Agricole AT&T Undisclosed AT&T has acquired Xanboo, one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> S<strong>of</strong>tware USA<br />

Indosuez, Itochu, orig<strong>in</strong>al home automation players which<br />

Motorola, SG, Virata enables home owners to monitor<br />

security, energy consumption and<br />

digital media.<br />

The <strong>Quarterly</strong> Transatlantic Tech Investment Review <strong>Calibre</strong> <strong>One</strong> : International Executive Search<br />

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