Case Studies
With a focus on the digital economy, GroupArgent has worked with numerous clients to create value through banking transactions, strategic advisory, and business acceleration.
Sell Side M&A Transaction: BuyDomains
Headquartered in Maryland, BuyDomains owned and monetized one of the largest collections of premium Internet domain names in the world. At the time of the transaction, BuyDomains had an inventory of 400,000+ domain names of which 50,000 were considered premium. Additionally, the company provided various managed services for third parties in relation to operation of domain names and websites. Extremely profitable, the company had an EBITDA margin considerably superior to its peer group.
Business Acceleration & Sell Side M&A Transaction: EmergingCast
Headquartered in New York, EmergingCast is the leading provider of commercially valuable content for Spanish and Portuguese online audiences, boasting a network of 50,000+ freelance professionals who create over 5,000 text articles, podcasts, and short‐form videos per month.
EmergingCast produces content utilizing proprietary algorithms, a sophisticated editorial process, and a large network of freelancers to identify, create, distribute, and monetize text articles, podcasts, and short‐form videos on the web and television. Operating like an assembly line, EmergingCast efficiently produces content at discounts of up to 95% versus well known competitors. The 100% copyrighted content produced is then distributed online through EmergingCast’s web properties and partners, including YouTube, where the material is monetized via display, contextual, and video ads.
Business Acceleration & Funding: RootAxcess
RootAxcess provides the computing, network, storage and virtualization environment necessary for a customer to securely build and manage its cloud IT infrastructure. RootAxcess has developed a self‐service user interface on www.RootAxcess.com that lets customers provision and pay for their cloud infrastructures on a real‐time, pay as‐you‐go basis. Headquartered in Chicago, IL, with operations in Oak Brook Terrace, IL and New York, NY, RootAxcess supports e‐commerce developers, financial service companies, technology, web hosting and numerous professional services firms that depend on high‐availability, business critical Cloud hosting environments.
Sell Side M&A Transaction: QuantHouse
QuantHouse is the global leader in end-to-end systematic trading solutions. Founded by a group of managers, IT experts and quant traders coming from the hedge fund community, QuantHouse established itself as the high growth/high value provider of Ultra Low Latency data technology in the financial markets space.
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