Q1 2015 Connected Car Market Update
Palo Alto, CA – April 1, 2015 I. Connected Car Market — Connected Car Market Dynamics — Public Company Market Map II. Recent Developments — Press Releases and…
Woodside Capital to Host “Inside Silicon Valley: Forecasts, M&A”
Palo Alto, CA – March 4, 2015 The hottest new companies continue to come from Silicon Valley – but the story is no longer about new technology. Most…
WCP Serves as Exclusive Financial Advisor to GainSpan Corporation on its $5 Million Capital Raise with Trinity Capital Investment
Palo Alto, CA – Dec. 31, 2014 – GainSpan Corporation has announced that it has recently secured a $5 million venture debt loan from Trinity Capital Investment….
OpenStack Research Report: The Future of Cloud Computing
Palo Alto, CA – November 14, 2014 With the availability of robust cloud platforms and applications, enterprises are now free to choose the best possible technology solution to…
WCP at TM&A Europe Event – November 20, London
London, UK – October 23, 2014 By invite only, 100-150 key technology thought leaders from growth companies, consolidators, and investment professionals from Europe, USA and Asia to discuss…
Amar Senan Joins Woodside Capital Partners as Managing Director
Palo Alto, CA – October 1, 2014 Woodside Capital Partners International LLC, a global, independent investment bank, announces that Amar Senan has joined the firm as a Managing…
WCP Managing Director Tricia Salinero Comments on OpenStack Acquisitions
Palo Alto, CA – September 29, 2014 In a recent article in The Deal Pipeline on Red Hat Inc.’s acquisition of Irish mobile technology company FeedHenry, Tricia Salinero,…
WCP Aelios, a Joint Venture Between Aelios Finance and Woodside Capital Partners, Announces its First M&A Transaction
Palo Alto, CA – September 22, 2014 WCP Aelios announces it acted as the exclusive financial advisor to the shareholders of Welcome Real-time in its acquisition by Collinson…
Digital Ad Tech: Growth, Disruption, and Consolidation
Palo Alto, CA – August 1, 2014 Advertising Technology has emerged as one of the most exciting beneficiaries of recent advances in bandwidth, mobile computing, networking and cloud…
Top 10 Tenets for Tech M&A and Finding a Buyer – Let’s Plan Ahead
Palo Alto, CA – July 31, 2014 There are times in the life of a start-up when it’s the right move to actively look for a buyer. Perhaps…
WCP Advises InMage Systems – Cloud Platform Innovator Acquired by Microsoft Corporation
Palo Alto, CA – July 17, 2014 Woodside Capital Partners International LLC, a global, independent investment bank, announces it acted as financial advisor to InMage Systems, a leading…
Woodside Capital Partners and Aelios Finance Announce Investment Banking Joint Venture for French Technology Companies
Palo Alto, CA/Paris, France – June 20, 2014 Transatlantic venture to provide access to Silicon Valley M&A market Woodside Capital Partners International LLC, a global, independent investment bank,…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises iSystems LLC on Acquisition by Silver Oak Services Partners
Palo Alto, CA – June 20, 2014 Transaction provides capital resources to accelerate development of Evolution Payroll Software Woodside Capital Partners International LLC, a global, independent investment bank,…
Embedded Camera Status Research Report
Palo Alto, CA – April 30, 2014 The worldwide market for embedded cameras is expected to nearly double by the end of this decade driven by smartphones, automobiles,…
Woodside Capital Advises Karmasphere on Acquisition by FICO
Palo Alto, CA – April 30, 2014 Big Data Leader Targets Most Important Opportunity in Hadoop Ecosystem Woodside Capital Partners International LLC, a global, independent investment bank, announces…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises Phoenix Age – Hot Social Games Company Acquired by Kabam
Palo Alto, CA – March 18, 2014 Woodside Capital Partners International LLC, a global, independent investment bank, announces it acted as financial advisor to Phoenix Age, one of…
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Industry Report[:]
Palo Alto, CA – March 1, 2014 One of our primary investment theses for the next few years revolves around the movement of critical computing functionality from specialized…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises Sense Networks on Acquisition by YP
Palo Alto, CA – January 10, 2014 Woodside Capital Partners International LLC, a global, independent investment bank, announces it acted as exclusive financial advisor to Sense Networks, the…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises Discera on Acquisition by Micrel, Inc.
Palo Alto, CA – September 19, 2013 Woodside Capital Partners International LLC announces that it acted as financial advisor to Discera, Inc. (Discera), a leading provider of silicon…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises Caliopa on its Sale to Huawei
Palo Alto, CA – September 11, 2013 Woodside Capital Partners International LLC announces it acted as financial advisor to Caliopa, a developer and marketer of silicon photonics-based optical…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises WIMM Labs on its Sale to Google
Palo Alto, CA – September 6, 2013 In the news this week, Google confirmed that it acquired WIMM Labs, Android-powered smartwatch maker, in 2012. Woodside Capital Partners acted…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises Fujitsu Semiconductor America on Asset Divestiture of its Wireless Products Division to Intel Corporation
Palo Alto, CA – August 21, 2013 Woodside Capital Partners International LLC announces that it acted as financial advisor to Fujitsu Semiconductor Wireless Products Inc. (FSWP), a leader…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises Movidius on $16 Million Series D Funding
Palo Alto, CA – June 15, 2013 Woodside Capital Partners International LLC, a global, independent investment bank, announces it acted as exclusive financial advisor to Movidius on its…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises TagArray on its Acquisition by Maxim Integrated Products
Palo Alto, CA – June 11, 2013 Woodside Capital Partners International LLC, a global, independent investment bank, announces it acted as exclusive financial advisor to TagArray, a leader…
WCP Serves as Exclusive Financial Advisor to Gemfire (GC Holdings Inc.) on its Acquisition by Kaiam Corp.
Palo Alto, CA – May 31, 2013 – GC Holdings Inc. has announced the completion of its acquisition by Kaiam Corp., including its subsidiaries Gemfire Corporation and…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises FibeRio® on strategic investment financing by SABIC and Aster Capital
Palo Alto, CA – May 7, 2013 Woodside Capital Partners International LLC announces that it acted as financial advisor to FibeRio, the developer and manufacturer of Forcespinning® nanofiber…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises COGO Optronics Inc. Canadian Subsidiary on Acquisition by TeraXion Inc.
Palo Alto, CA – April 24, 2013 Woodside Capital Partners International LLC announces that it acted as financial advisor to COGO Optronics Canadian Subsidiary, a leader in optical…
Mentor Graphics (NASDAQ: MENT) Acquires MontaVista Automotive Infotainment Software Unit from Cavium (NASDAQ: CAVM)
Palo Alto, CA – Feb. 28, 2013 – MontaVista LLC, an embedded Linux software provider and subsidiary of Cavium, has announced the acquisition of its automotive technology…
MASiV 2013 Surfaces Year’s Top M&A Trends
Palo Alto, CA – February 13, 2013 Woodside Capital Partners’ Annual Event Attracts Top Silicon Valley M&A Executives, Venture Capitalists, and Entrepreneurs More emerging growth companies will be…
Silicon Valley executives meet at Stonebrook Court
Palo Alto, CA – July 31, 2012 On June 28 Woodside Capital Partners hosted a cocktail reception attended by more than 100 senior executives, VCs and entrepreneurs,…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises ASPEX Semiconductor on its Sale to Ericsson
Palo Alto, CA – July 31, 2012 Woodside Capital Partners International LLC is pleased to announce that it acted as a financial advisor to ASPEX Semiconductor, a…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises IRIS Distribution, Leading Digital Music Distributor, in Merger with The Orchard
Palo Alto, CA – June 7, 2012 Woodside Capital Partners International LLC announces that it acted as financial advisor to IRIS Distribution, leading digital music distribution company,…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises Social Software Maker, Socialtext on Strategic Investment from Bedford Funding
Palo Alto, CA – June 1, 2012 Woodside Capital Partners International LLC announces that it acted as financial advisor to Socialtext, an enterprise social software provider, in…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises Top Digital Marketing Agency, LSF Network, Inc. in Merger with Geary Group
Palo Alto, CA – April 18, 2012 Woodside Capital Partners International LLC announce that it acted as financial advisor to the merger of LSF Network, Inc., a…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises CIP On Its Sale to Huawei
Palo Alto, CA – January 25, 2012 Woodside Capital Partners International LLC is pleased to announce that it acted as financial advisor to Integrated Photonics Ltd (CIP),…
Woodside Capital Partners Hosts The Better Acquisitions Gathering 2012
Palo Alto, CA – January 10, 2012 Meeting of Top Acquirers in Software and Internet Services, Top Venture Capitalists, CEOs Woodside Capital Partners, a global technology investment…
WCP Serves as Exclusive Financial Advisor to Rosum Corporation on its Sale of Intellectual Property to TruePosition, Inc.
Palo Alto, CA – Sept. 30, 2011 – Rosum Corporation, a developer of high-accuracy wireless location solutions using television signals that held an extensive portfolio of 28…
WCP Serves as Exclusive Financial Advisor to CygNet Software on its Acquisition by Weatherford International Ltd.
Palo Alto, CA – May 31, 2011 – CygNet Software, the leading Enterprise Operations Platform (EOP) provider delivering SCADA and operational applications, has announced its acquisition by…
Samplify Raises $11.2M Round for Analog Chips that Can Cut Electronics Costs
Palo Alto, CA – March 7, 2011 Chip startups are rare these days. But Samplify Systems has managed to raise another round of $11.2 million in funding…
WCP Serves as Exclusive Financial Advisor to InVisage Technologies on its $20 Million Capital Raise with Intel Capital
Palo Alto, CA – Feb. 28, 2011 – InVisage Technologies, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based start-up that is revolutionizing the image sensor market, has announced that it has…
WCP Serves as Exclusive Financial Advisor to Fibercore, Ltd. on its Acquisition by H.I.G. Capital
Palo Alto, CA – Feb. 28, 2011 – Fibercore, Ltd., a UK based global market leader in the design and manufacture of specialty optical fibers, has announced…
Woodside Capital Partners UK Advises ClearSpeed Ltd on the Sale of its IP Assets
London, UK – February 8, 2011 WCP (UK) Ltd, is pleased to announce that it recently acted as the financial advisor to ClearSpeed Ltd for the sale…
Woodside Capital Partners Serves as Financial Advisor to SemiSouth Laboratories, Inc.
Palo Alto, CA – November 11, 2010 Woodside Capital Partners International LLC is pleased to announce that it acted as a financial advisor to SemiSouth Laboratories, Inc.,…
Woodside Capital Partners Serves as Financial Advisor to SemiSouth Laboratories, Inc.
Palo Alto, CA – November 11, 2010 Woodside Capital Partners International LLC is pleased to announce that it acted as a financial advisor to SemiSouth Laboratories, Inc.,…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises Yardbarker on its Sale to News Corporation / Fox Sports
Palo Alto, CA – November 4, 2010 Woodside Capital Partners International LLC is pleased to announce that it acted as financial advisor to Yardbarker on its recent…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises ChipSensors on its Sale to Silicon Laboratories
Palo Alto, CA – November 1, 2010 Woodside Capital Partners International LLC is pleased to announce that it acted as a financial advisor to ChipSensors in its…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises Samplify Systems on its Financing from IDT
Palo Alto, CA – June 18, 2010 Woodside Capital Partners International LLC is pleased to announce that it acted as a financial advisor to Samplify Systems, a…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises iWatt on the Sale of IKOR Division
Palo Alto, CA – May 17, 2010 Woodside Capital Partners Advises iWatt on the divestiture of its IKOR Advanced Power Solutions Division Woodside Capital Partners International LLC…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises Silicon Clocks on its Sale to Silicon Labs
Palo Alto, CA – May 10, 2010 Woodside Capital Partners International LLC is pleased to announce that it acted as financial advisor to Silicon Clocks on its…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises Packet Island on its Sale to BroadSoft
Palo Alto, CA – October 14, 2009 Woodside Capital Partners International LLC is pleased to announce that it acted as financial advisor to Packet Island in its…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises ARC International on its Sale to Virage Logic
Palo Alto, CA – October 13, 2009 Woodside Capital Partners LLC is pleased to announce that it acted as financial advisor to publicly held ARC International plc…
WCP Serves as Exclusive Financial Advisor to Conformia Software on its Acquisition by Oracle Corporation
Palo Alto, CA – June 30, 2009 – Conformia Software, an enterprise software company that manages the drug development lifecycle environment from initial candidate selection through to…
Woodside Capital Partners Advises Silicon Clocks on its $10.3M Series C Financing Led By Silicon Labs and Premier VC Firms
Palo Alto, CA – June 18, 2009 Woodside Capital Partners LLC is pleased to announce that it acted as financial advisor to Silicon Clocks, a leader in…
WCP Serves as Exclusive Financial Advisor to Straatum Processware Ltd. on its Acquisition by Lam Research Corporation
Palo Alto, CA – January 31, 2009 – Straatum Processware Ltd., the leading provider of real-time fault detection and classification solutions to the semiconductor sector worldwide, has…
WCP Serves as Exclusive Financial Advisor to Pelikon Ltd. on its Acquisition by MFLEX
Palo Alto, CA – Dec. 31, 2008 – Pelikon Limited, a developer of printed segmented electroluminescent (pSELTM) displays and keypads, has announced its acquisition by Multi-Fineline Electronix…
WCP Serves as Exclusive Financial Advisor to Oerlikon on its Acquisition by Halma p.l.c.
Palo Alto, CA – Dec. 31, 2008 – Oerlikon Optics USA Inc., a leading global technology group investing in technologies that provide customers with lighter, more durable…
WCP Serves as Exclusive Financial Advisor to Syndera Corporation on its Acquisition by TIBCO Software Inc.
Palo Alto, CA – July 31, 2008 – Syndera Corporation, a software company that continuously monitors key performance indicators (KPIs) providing real-time business intelligence and business activity…
WCP Serves as Exclusive Financial Advisor to Edge Dynamics, Inc. on its Acquisition by I-many, Inc.
Palo Alto, CA – May 31, 2008 – Edge Dynamics, Inc., a developer of channel demand management solutions for the life sciences industry, has announced its acquisition…
WCP Serves as Exclusive Financial Advisor to Identum on its Acquisition by Trend Micro, Inc.
Palo Alto, CA – Feb. 29, 2008 – Identum, a developer of email encryption technology and the world’s first fourth generation cryptography system, has announced its acquisition…
WCP Serves as Exclusive Financial Advisor to FotoNation on its Acquisition by Tessera Technologies, Inc.
Palo Alto, CA – Feb. 29, 2008 – FotoNation, a leading provider of embedded imaging solutions for digital still camera and mobile phone applications has announced its…
WCP Serves as Exclusive Financial Advisor to PhotoWorks, Inc. on its Acquisition by American Greetings Corporation
Palo Alto, CA – January 31, 2008 – PhotoWorks, Inc., a leading online photo sharing and personal publishing company allowing consumers to use their digital images to…
WCP Serves as Exclusive Financial Advisor to SkipJam Corp. on its Acquisition by NETGEAR
Palo Alto, CA – Aug. 31, 2006 – SkipJam Corp., a supplier of home media networking hardware and software for consumers, custom home installers, and original equipment…
WCP Serves as Exclusive Financial Advisor to Eagleware Corp. on its Acquisition by Agilent Technologies Inc.
Palo Alto, CA – Aug. 31, 2005 – Eagleware Corp. (DBA Eagleware-Elanix), a leading provider of system and circuit design software for the communications industry, has announced…