Technology

Thoma Bravo, a leading private equity investment firm, has acquired Magnet Forensics, a leading provider of digital forensics solutions, for $1.8B. Magnet Forensics’ solutions are designed to help investigators and forensic professionals quickly and accurately recover digital evidence from computers, mobile devices, cloud services, and other sources. After the completion of the transaction, Thoma Bravo intends to combine Magnet Forensics with Grayshift to create a powerful end-to-end digital investigations platform. [more]

Enghouse Systems, a global provider of enterprise software solutions, announced that it has reached an all-cash agreement to acquire Qumu Corporation, a provider of cloud-based enterprise video technology, for US$18.0 million. The offer price represents a premium of approximately 105% over the closing price of Qumu on December 16, 2022. [more]

In this short video, Chris Thompson of eResearch talks about EQ’s Q3 financial results and recently launched retail insights product. The 13-page Equity Research Report covers an in-depth analysis of the company, a detailed overview of its Q3/2022 financial results, and a review of its new retail insights product called “Clearlake” which was launched in beta with clients. [more]

EQ released its Q3/2022 financials and reported revenue of $2.1 million, down from $3.1 million in Q3/2021, and lower than our estimate of $3.5 million. The decline was primarily due to clients delaying certain advertising campaigns into 2023. However, it continued to roll out its retail data insights tool to customers which we believe should positively impact revenue, Gross Margins, and EBITDA in 2023. [more]

In this short video, Chris Thompson of eResearch talks about Datable’s continued revenue growth and transformative deal and eResearch’s 19-page Equity Research Report that covers an in-depth analysis of the company, a detailed overview of its Q3/2022 financial results, and its merger with Local Marketing Solutions Group. [more]

We have written a 19-page Update Report on Datable, a Canadian-based software development and technology company operating in the consumer online advertising and marketing sectors. On September 30, Datable announced that it signed an LOI to acquire LMSG for $14.35M in an all-stock deal at a deemed share price of $0.05 that valued LMSG at approx. 1.0x 2022E revenue. The combined company is expected to have pro-forma 2022 consolidated revenue of over $18 million with positive EBITDA in 2023. [more]

In this short video, Chris Thompson of eResearch talks about DCM’s double-digit quarterly revenue growth and strong EBITDA in Q3/2023 and eResearch’s 18-page Equity Research Report that covers an in-depth analysis of the company and a detailed overview of its Q3/2022 financial results. [more]

We have written an 18-page Update Report on DATA Communications Management, a Canadian-based communications and marketing solutions provider that offers comprehensive online and offline communications and marketing solutions to businesses. The update report provides highlights of the Company’s Q3/2022 financials and a full summary of our valuation methodology. We increased the Target Price to $4.50 from $4.20. [more]