Marlin Client Vhayu Technologies Corporation Acquired by Thomson Reuters
August 03 2009 - 1:52PM
Marketwired
Marlin & Associates (M&A), the New York-based boutique
investment banking firm specializing in acquisitions and
divestitures of U.S. and international middle-market technology,
information and business services firms, today announced its most
recent transaction. Thomson Reuters has acquired M&A's client,
Vhayu Technologies Corporation. Vhayu, based in Los Gatos, CA, is a
leading provider of high-speed data analysis solutions. The terms
of the deal for privately-held Vhayu were undisclosed.
Vhayu is the leading provider of enterprise tick data solutions
with over 70 customers worldwide. Through its patented Velocity and
Squeezer technologies, Vhayu combines software and hardware to
provide significant competitive advantages by enabling faster and
smarter trading decisions for financial firms concerned with the
processing and storage of market data.
Marlin & Associates helped manage the process, assisted in
the negotiations and acted as exclusive strategic and financial
advisor to Vhayu's management and investors, which included Menlo
Ventures and Garage.com
"We were pleased to have helped CEO Jeff Hudson, Menlo Ventures,
Garage.com, as well as the other owners, employees and managers of
Vhayu to bring this transaction to a successful closure," said Ken
Marlin, M&A's managing partner.
Jeff Hudson, CEO at Vhayu, said: "This acquisition brings
together technology and content that will generate a powerful new
class of solutions for financial services customers. By deeply and
seamlessly integrating Thomson Reuters valuable content with the
analytics and storage technology of Vhayu, customers will enjoy new
solutions that will greatly expand the value of market data."
About Vhayu Technologies Corporation
Vhayu delivers the fastest market data solutions for the capture
and high-speed analysis of massive amounts of streaming and
historical data to the world's leading financial institutions.
Through its unique patented Velocity and Squeezer technologies,
Vhayu combines software and hardware to provide significant
competitive advantages to financial firms concerned with the
processing and storage of tick data by enabling faster and smarter
trading decisions. Partnered with some of the world's leading
technology and financial services organizations, Vhayu's customers
include 8 of the top 10 global financial institutions, the leading
online discount broker, the largest financial information provider,
major hedge funds and trading systems vendors.
Vhayu was founded in 1998 by Intel technologists who brought
together over twenty years of experience architecting high
performance hardware and software solutions. Headquartered in
Silicon Valley, the company also has offices in New York, London
and Tokyo. For more information, visit http://www.vhayu.com
Founded in 2002, Marlin & Associates New York LLC is a
boutique investment banking and strategic consulting firm focused
on providing highly strategic, transaction-related services to U.S.
and international middle-market firms engaged in technology,
information, online media and business-services. The firm is based
in New York City, with offices in Washington, DC and Toronto,
Canada and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including
"Middle Market Investment Banking Firm of the Year," "Middle Market
Financing Agent of the Year - Equity" and numerous
"Deal-of-the-Year" awards. M&A's professionals have advised on
over 200 successfully completed transactions in the technology and
information services sector, including:
-- Standard & Poor's sale of Vista Research of New York, NY to Guidepoint
Global. M&A advised S&P, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP).
-- Tenfore of London, which M&A advised on its sale to Morningstar, Inc.
(NASDAQ: MORN).
-- LexisNexis's sale of Mealey's Conferences to Business Valuation
Resources (BVR). M&A advised LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Group.
-- Infodyne Corporation of Park Ridge, Illinois, which M&A advised on its
sale to International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM).
-- LowerFees, Inc. of Westlake Village, California, which M&A advised on
its sale to Bankrate, Inc. (NASDAQ: RATE).
-- Netik LLC of London, England and New York, which M&A advised on its
simultaneous acquisition of Capco Reference Data Services and replacement
of its primary investor, The Bank of New York Mellon Corp, with Symphony
Technology Group.
-- Hemscott of London, England, a division of Ipreo Holdings LLC of New
York. M&A advised Ipreo and its principal Private Equity backer, Veronis
Suhler Stevenson, on the sale of Hemscott to Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN).
-- StarMine Corporation of San Francisco, which M&A advised on its sale
to Reuters (now Thomson Reuters) (NYSE: TRI).
-- Applied Financial Technology (AFT) of San Francisco, which M&A advised
on its sale to Fidelity National Information Services (NYSE: FIS).
-- Ventyx, Inc's acquisition of Global Energy Decisions of Boulder,
Colorado. M&A Advised Ventyx, an affiliate of Vista Equity Partners of San
Francisco.
-- Xcitek LLC's Market Data Division of New York, which M&A advised on
its sale to Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC).
-- Brainpower N.V. of Lugano, Switzerland, which M&A advised on its sale
to Bloomberg L.P.
-- Cameron Systems (Vic) of Sydney, Australia, which M&A advised on its
sale to Orc Software of Stockholm, Sweden (STKM: ORC).
-- Derivative Solutions of Chicago, which M&A advised on its sale to
FactSet Research Systems (NYSE: FDS).
-- Beauchamp Financial Technology Ltd. of London, England, which M&A
advised on its sale to Linedata Services of Paris, France (PARIS: LIN).
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