Cherry Tree & Associates | December 2017

Cherry Tree has been tracking trends and activity in the Technology Enabled Business Services (TEBS) space for more than 15 years, including the TEBS 100, which is a broad index of 100 publicly-traded TEBS companies.

The four segments of the TEBS 100 are: Software Business Process Services Information Services Infrastructure Services

Each issue of this newsletter highlights transactions involving TEBS companies, as well as performance metrics for the TEBS 100. Cherry Tree also produces a quarterly TEBS report which is available for download:

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Cherry Tree has more than 30 years of experience working with businesses in the TEBS space, originally as an investor and now as a provider of investment banking services. Our clients include companies seeking to sell their businesses or divest non-core assets, as well as strategic and financial buyers looking to make acquisitions.  Contact Mik Gusenius at  mgusenius@cherrytree.com with any questions.

NOTABLE TRANSACTIONS – DECEMBER 2017

Intuit Will Acquire Employee Time Tracking Software... Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU), parent company of accounting software QuickBooks and TurboTax, has signed an agreement to acquire the time tracking and employee scheduling software company Tsheets for $340 million. The acquisition will reportedly... Read more smallbiztrends.com Payment processor Total System Services to buy Cayan for ... Total System Services Inc. on Monday said it would buy payment technology firm Cayan for $1.05 billion in cash to expand its offerings to small and mid-sized U.S. businesses. The deal is expected to modestly benefit TSYS's... Read more www.reuters.com Iron Mountain Makes $1.3 Billion Data Center Acquisition Iron Mountain is buying the U.S. operations of IO Data Centers, giving it access to the lucrative colocation data center services business. Read more fortune.com Label Insight Raises $21M to Tell You More About What's... Label Insight, a Chicago tech company that helps consumers know all the ingredients in their food, has raised $21 million in new funding. Label Insight uses data science to bring transparency to food product labels to help people with allergies... Read more www.americaninno.com

Oracle to buy construction collaboration software maker... Oracle will pay $1.2 billion in cash to buy construction software developer Aconex, the companies announced today. Based in Melbourne, Aconex's cloud-based software allow teams working on building projects to collaborate and share documents.... Read more techcrunch.com IWCO Direct Is Acquired in $476M All-Cash Deal ModusLink Global Solutions has acquired Chanhassen, Minn.-based IWCO Direct, a privately-held provider of data-driven direct marketing solutions, for $476 million in cash, culminating a mega-deal that ends the chapter of IWCO Direct as the... Read more www.piworld.com Equinix wins $1bn race for Metronode Equinix has snapped up data centre operator Metronode for a shade over $1 billion in cash, significantly expanding its capital city reach. The buyout means Equinix now has floor space in Perth, Canberra, Adelaide and Brisbane, in addition to its... Read more www.itnews.com.au EBay acquires Terapeak to provide more analytics to... EBay announced another acquisition today that underscores the company's current focus on building out better data tools for third-party sellers on its platform, to help it compete better with the likes of Amazon and other marketplaces to... Read more techcrunch.com

TEBS 100 INDEX PERFORMANCE

TEBS 100 INDEX METRICS

For a confidential conversation about your company's strategic alternatives for exiting, merging, acquiring, or obtaining venture financing, please contact Mik Gusenius. Prepared by: Mik Gusenius, Director mgusenius@cherrytree.com Phone: 952.253.6005 www.cherrytree.com 

Cherry Tree & Associates is a private investment banking firm headquartered in Minneapolis. Our firm specializes in serving middle market companies and their owners, whether private, public, or divisions of larger corporations.

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