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January 31, 2008
Top 10 VC-backed IPOs and M&A in Tech in Europe
As a result of last week's Puzzler, your a:c euro reporter, Valerie Thompson, was able to put together this list of top ten VC-backed trade sales and IPOs over the past 12 months. We can't guarantee that it is the last word on the topic but it's pretty close. (Please note that the source for numbers 1,3, 6, and 7 is VentureSource via a reader.)
The companies names bolded in the table were backed to best of our knowledge by VCs that describe their strategy as early stage. We converted the currencies into Euros.
All in all we gathered a list of about twenty transactions above €100M involving privately-owned tech companies (non-life science nor medtech). Twelve are above €200M.
The largest of all was the valuation of MoneySupermarket.com at IPO at about €1126M, which was not venture backed so not on the above list.
Here is another list we compiled from your input (and our archives) involving publicly traded companies). The valuation is for the company name bolded.
M&A of Publicly Traded firms
Navteq acquired by Nokia $8B
TeleAtlas by TomTom $2.56B
Telelogic acquired by IBM for $745M
Boursorama acquired OnVista AG $138M
IXEurope acquired by Equinix $396M
Axel Springer acquired d'AuFeminin.com for €284M
And if you want more, we wrote about the hottest M&A sectors here.
Posted on January 31, 2008 03:31 PM | Posted to Being European | Permalink
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