January 19, 2023 – NEW YORK – Vaquero Capital received some of the biggest industry awards at the 2023 Americas M&A Atlas Awards, held at the historic Metropolitan Club in New York. Vaquero was recognized with the award for Tech Bank of the Year for the fifth year in a row. In addition, the firm … Continued
Vaquero Capital Advises on #4 PE Deal of 2012
This year, many high-profile startups and private companies landed great gobs of cash to help expand or fund new products. E-commerce, cloud, and green energy companies were especially sexy to financiers.
Using data that PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association compiled, we took a look at the 15 largest funding rounds of the year to get a better sense of popular trends. While there is an overhyped “Series A crunch” supposedly happening right now, many of these mostly late-stage deals looked great. Note that this data consists of funding that was actually distributed to a company, so previously reported amounts that were committed by firms could differ from this data.
Drilling Info might have the least interesting name on this list, but what it offers is certainly attractive — so much that it raised $166.2 million in a major Q1 funding round. It offers a SaaS-based oil and gas business-intelligence platform, and it claims to be the “most complete source of North American and offshore waters oil and gas information.” It’s easy to see how a company offering easy access to that kind of data could get some serious cash. The round was raised by Insight Venture Partners, Battery Ventures, and Eastern Advisors Private Fund, with Vaquero Capital advising the deal.
http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/28/top-venture-capital-deals-2012/