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Belgium/Ne<strong>the</strong>rlands/Luxembourg (BENELUX)<br />

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

Name company sold for ($)<br />

1-Nov Hyves Undisclosed Telegraaf Undisclosed Lead<strong>in</strong>g Dutch social network Hyves Social Ne<strong>the</strong>rlands<br />

Media Groep is sell<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> entire company to Dutch Network<strong>in</strong>g<br />

media group TMG.<br />

22-Dec NXP Philips Pension Trustees, Dover 855,000,000 Dover has signed a def<strong>in</strong>itive Semiconductors Ne<strong>the</strong>rlands<br />

Private Investors agreement to acquire <strong>the</strong> Sound<br />

Solutions bus<strong>in</strong>ess l<strong>in</strong>e <strong>of</strong><br />

NXP Semiconductors.<br />

Nor<strong>the</strong>rn Europe<br />

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

Name company sold for ($)<br />

17-Oct YouCalc Sunstone Capital Success Undisclosed Cloud-based s<strong>of</strong>tware company S<strong>of</strong>tware Denmark<br />

Factors SuccessFactors acquires YouCalc<br />

to <strong>of</strong>fer cloud-based realtime<br />

analytics platform.<br />

5-Nov Frends Undisclosed HiQ 4,500,000 HiQ International acquires Bus<strong>in</strong>ess F<strong>in</strong>land<br />

Technology International Frends Technology. Applications<br />

S<strong>of</strong>tware<br />

4-Oct Acumem Undisclosed Rogue Wave Undisclosed Rogue Wave S<strong>of</strong>tware, <strong>the</strong> largest S<strong>of</strong>tware Sweden<br />

S<strong>of</strong>tware <strong>in</strong>dependent provider <strong>of</strong> cross-platform<br />

s<strong>of</strong>tware development tools and<br />

embedded components for <strong>the</strong> next<br />

generation <strong>of</strong> HPC applications,<br />

today announced that <strong>the</strong> company<br />

has acquired Acumem.<br />

2-Dec The Undisclosed Research Undisclosed The makers <strong>of</strong> BlackBerry have S<strong>of</strong>tware Sweden<br />

Astonish<strong>in</strong>g In Motion acquired The Astonish<strong>in</strong>g Tribe (TAT)<br />

Tribe a firm renowned for its <strong>in</strong>novative<br />

user <strong>in</strong>terface designs.<br />

Ireland<br />

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

Name company sold for ($)<br />

6-Oct Lagan Clarendon Fund Kana S<strong>of</strong>tware Undisclosed Kana S<strong>of</strong>tware and Lagan S<strong>of</strong>tware Ireland<br />

Technologies Managers, QUBIS, Technologies reach agreement to<br />

DFJ Esprit, Crescent create a new global leader <strong>in</strong> service<br />

Capital, DN Capital experience management solutions<br />

with <strong>the</strong> help <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> acquisition.<br />

12-Oct ChipSensors ETV Capital SA, Silicon Undisclosed Silicon Laboratories has acquired Semiconductors Ireland<br />

Kernel Capital Partners, Laboratories ChipSensors, maker <strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>novative<br />

Enterprise Ireland s<strong>in</strong>gle-chip CMOS sensors.<br />

23-Nov Firecomms ACT Venture Capital, ZJF Group Undisclosed Firecomms, a provider <strong>of</strong> photonic Semiconductors Ireland<br />

Alsp Electric, Atlantic communication devices, has been<br />

Bridge, Swisscom acquired by ZJF Group.<br />

Ventures, Enterprise<br />

Ireland, GP<br />

BullHound Sidecar<br />

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

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