NEW YORK,
Dec. 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
Mooreland Partners (http://www.moorelandpartners.com), the leading
independent investment bank providing M&A and private capital
advisory services to the global technology industry, today
announced that it acted as the exclusive financial advisor to
AdKarma LLC on its sale to blinkx plc (LSE AIM: BLNX). The
acquisition of AdKarma, a rapidly growing video supply side
platform located in Columbia,
Missouri, marks the 19th transaction advised by
Mooreland Partners this year. The transaction further solidifies
Mooreland Partners' position among the most active advisors to the
digital media sector.
"blinkx stands to benefit from AdKarma's strong
relationships with over 300 publishers representing in excess of
20,000 websites," said Peg Jackson,
Managing Director, Mooreland Partners. "This acquisition will
significantly bolster blinkx's position within the programmatic
segment of the digital video advertising market."
Based in Columbia,
Missouri, AdKarma is a rapidly growing video supply side
platform ranked as one of Inc. 500's fastest growing businesses in
the country. AdKarma has attracted some of the brightest
advertising minds focused on driving growth and establishing
relationships with the industry's top advertising and publishing
partners.
Headquartered in San
Francisco, blinkx is an Internet media company that connects
consumers and brands through premium content online. Founded in the
UK in 2004, blinkx pioneered Internet Video Search using its
patented COncept Recognition Engine (CORE). This technology
leverages speech recognition, text, and image analysis to deeply
understand the meaning and context of video content, to generate
improved search relevancy for consumers and a brand safe
environment for advertisers. Today, blinkx is a broad digital media
technology, distribution, and monetization platform that connects
consumers, advertisers and content across four screens.
ABOUT MOORELAND PARTNERS
Mooreland Partners (http://www.moorelandpartners.com)
is a leading independent investment bank providing M&A and
private capital advisory services to the global technology
industry, serving clients from its offices in Silicon Valley,
Greenwich (CT) and London. Since January
2013, Mooreland Partners advised on a total of 38
transactions across all major technology sectors including
communications technology, mobile and digital media, enterprise
software and services, as well as industrial technology and
electronics.
Founded in 2002, Mooreland Partners is an integrated
global firm, 100% owned by its partners, with a team of almost 50
investment banking professionals. Read our blog, follow us on
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