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$40M+ Exits with Public Prices: Heroku - W08 - $212M > Salesforce [1] OMGPOP - S06 - $180M > Znyga [2] SocialCam - W12 - $60M > Autodesk [3] Loopt - S05 - $

$40M+ Exits with Public Prices: Heroku - W08 - $212M > Salesforce [1] OMGPOP - S06 - $180M > Znyga [2] SocialCam - W12 - $60M > Autodesk [3] Loopt - S05 - $43.4M > Green Dot [4] $40M+ Exits with Rumored Prices: Parse - S11 - $85M > Facebook [5] [1] http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/08/breaking-salesforce-buys-heroku-for-212-million-in-cash/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/08/breaking-salesforce-buys-he... [2] http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/26/zynga-ceo-mark-pincus-omgpop-acquisition-was-a-rare-instance/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/26/zynga-ceo-mark-pincus-omgpo... [3] http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/17/socialcam-autodesk-60-million/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/17/socialcam-autodesk-60-milli... [4] http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/03/09/green-dot-to-buy-loopt-for-43-4-million-in-cash/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/03/09/green-dot-... [5] http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/25/facebook-parse/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/25/facebook-parse/

rdl 13y ago
CloudKick (to Rackspace) was probably over $40mm, or close to it.
- jcampbell1 13y ago
  I doubt your info is correct. IIRC, CloudKick had 10 employees and little revenue. $40M seems like a steep price. If Cloudkick's product was generating material revenue, they wouldn't have shut it down recently. My arm chair quaterbacking puts the deal closer to $10M for investors, and maybe a nice bit of earnout.
  - rdl 13y ago
    https://www.quora.com/How-much-was-Cloudkick-acquired-for https://www.quora.com/How-much-was-Cloudkick-acquired-for $30-50mm seems to be the consensus in this and some other places. $30MM cash was in the 10-K filing.
    - jcampbell1 13y ago
      Thanks, you are correct. I pulled the Feb 2011 10k, and it is clear -- $30M cash. No other acquisitions were mentioned, so that must be it. That being said, they show no earnouts for FY 2011 or 2012, but that could be because retention payments just got misclassified as comp. I stand by your >$40M comment as justifiable, likely accurate, and definitely more accurate than my estimation. From the 10K > During 2010, except for the $50 million repayment of our line of credit and cash paid for an acquisition of $30 million, we were able to maintain a consistent level of cash and cash equivalents while growing our business by maintaining our disciplined use of capital.
      - rdl 13y ago
        I'm not arguing worth, just what they actually paid :) (There is no likely world where what Google paid for Slide was worth it, for instance)

rdl 13y ago

CloudKick (to Rackspace) was probably over $40mm, or close to it.

jcampbell1 13y ago
I doubt your info is correct. IIRC, CloudKick had 10 employees and little revenue. $40M seems like a steep price. If Cloudkick's product was generating material revenue, they wouldn't have shut it down recently. My arm chair quaterbacking puts the deal closer to $10M for investors, and maybe a nice bit of earnout.
- rdl 13y ago
  https://www.quora.com/How-much-was-Cloudkick-acquired-for https://www.quora.com/How-much-was-Cloudkick-acquired-for $30-50mm seems to be the consensus in this and some other places. $30MM cash was in the 10-K filing.
  - jcampbell1 13y ago
    Thanks, you are correct. I pulled the Feb 2011 10k, and it is clear -- $30M cash. No other acquisitions were mentioned, so that must be it. That being said, they show no earnouts for FY 2011 or 2012, but that could be because retention payments just got misclassified as comp. I stand by your >$40M comment as justifiable, likely accurate, and definitely more accurate than my estimation. From the 10K > During 2010, except for the $50 million repayment of our line of credit and cash paid for an acquisition of $30 million, we were able to maintain a consistent level of cash and cash equivalents while growing our business by maintaining our disciplined use of capital.
    - rdl 13y ago
      I'm not arguing worth, just what they actually paid :) (There is no likely world where what Google paid for Slide was worth it, for instance)