Large deals drive July financing to near record levels: With another huge financing (DST - see below) July financing is near record monthly levels. Total raised month-to-date is $742.6 million over 29 deals - averaging $25.6 million each. Excluding the Zynga ($100 million) and DST ($388 million) deals, the average deal size is $9.4 million. In comparison, total capital raised in July 2009 was $209.0 million, averaging $5.2 million over 40 deals. The monthly median total is ~$280 million with a median deal size of $8.1 million.
Deals (M&A, Finance)
Naspers, a South African media and print conglomerate, invested $388 mm in Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian digital media holding company with significant stakes in Facebook, Groupon, Mail.ru, and Zynga.
The next biggest raise of the week was Australian enterprise software developer, Atlassian, receiving $60 mm in Series A funds from Accel Partners.
Social Commerce continues to garner attention – this week BlueSwarm ($0.8 mm angel round) and Shopkick ($15 mm Series B round) raised money.
Another $31 mm in venture funds found their way to Advertising-related start-ups, including Israel-based Adsmarket ($17 mm), as well as a pair of India-based companies – Komli Media ($6 mm) and InMobi ($8 mm).
Price performance split
The Web 2.0 public company universe was split this week, with 48% of companies seeing their market cap fall vs. 43% rising and 9% flat.
2. Key Developments (past week)
Deals (M&A, Finance) – Major DST Financing
Naspers, a South African media and print conglomerate, invested $388 mm in Digital
Sky Technologies, the Russian digital media holding company with significant stakes in
Facebook, Groupon, Mail.ru, and Zynga.
The next biggest raise of the week was Australian enterprise software developer,
Atlassian, receiving $60 mm in Series A funds from Accel Partners.
Social Commerce continues to garner attention – this week BlueSwarm ($0.8 mm angel
round) and Shopkick ($15 mm Series B round) raised money.
Another $31 mm in venture funds found their way to Advertising-related start-ups,
including Israel-based Adsmarket ($17 mm), as well as a pair of India-based companies
– Komli Media ($6 mm) and InMobi ($8 mm).
Financial Results/Guidance/Partnerships/Product
Score Media (TSX:SCR, BUY, FTM price target: $1.25), Canadian sports
entertainment media concern and developer of the popular Score Mobile application for
iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android, reported strong Q3/F10 results, including total revenue
of $12.0 million (+10.8% Y/Y, +20.4% Q/Q, MRCC estimate: $11.5 million), EBITDA of
$2.0 million (+16.6% Y/Y, +79.1% Q/Q, MRCC: $1.8 million), EBITDA margin of 17.0%
(MRCC: 16.0%), and EPS of $0.01 – inline with our $0.01 estimate.
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3. Chart of the Week: DST Continues to Cash Up
800.0
DST has raised almost $700
700.0 688.0 mm this year as it continues
to make large investments in
Web 2.0 companies
600.0
500.0
400.0
300.0
247.0
200.0
135.0
100.0 60.0 50.0 50.0 44.0 40.0 38.5 35.0
0.0
Technologies
Zynga
LivingSocial
Groupon
Atlassian
Gilt Groupe
Glam Media
Tremor Media
Squarespace
Qiyi
Digital Sky
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5. Aggregate Public Data
Web 2.0 Public Companies Total Median Max Min
# Companies 102 - - -
Market Cap (US$ mm) 81,684.2 56.0 32,832.1 0.0
Revenue (US$ mm) 28,443.7 47.9 6,736.1 0.0
1 Year revenue growth 1.9% 8961.6% -100.0%
EBITDA as % of revenue - 8.3% 63.1% -99.5%
Net cash (US$ mm) 17,042.9 2.8 6,535.8 -670.8
TEV/Revenue - 1.9x 43.5x 0.1x
TEV/EBITDA - 8.3x 48.9x 0.3x
P/E - 15.0x 94.5x 0.0x
Relative to 52 week high -42.2% -1.6% -93.3%
Source: CapitalIQ
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0
5
10
15
20
25
30
Gaming
28
Social Networking
17
Media
10
9
Diversified
5
Mobile
5
Marketing
Source: CapitalIQ
3
Infrastructure
3
SMS/Voice
3
Enterprise
3
Advertising
2
Internet Retail
2
Virtual World
By Sector
2
Dating
2
Music
1
Vertical Communities
1
Search
1
Podcasting
1
Learning
1
Video
1
Collaboration
1
Payment
1
Financial Services
Public Company Distribution
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
United States
Canada
China
South Korea
Japan
Taiwan
Hong Kong
Germany
Poland
Australia
United Kingdom
By Country
Italy
Finland
Sweden
India
Russia
Malaysia
Switzerland
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5.0
10.0
15.0
20.0
25.0
30.0
35.0
# Companies 1
Virtual World
33.0
2
Infrastructure
13.4
9
Social Networking
9.2
7
Diversified
9.0
1
Learning
7.6
4
Mobile
4.9
2
Music
4.3
1
Search
4.0
Gaming
21
3.7
5
Marketing
3.4
3
SMS/Voice
3.3
1
Vertical Communities
3.3
Average EV/Revenue – by Sector
1
Podcasting
2.8
1
Collaboration
2.5
9
Media
2.3
3
Advertising
2.3
2
Internet Retail
1.9
3
Enterprise
1.8
1
Video
1.5
2
Dating
1.3
1
Financial Services
0.4
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12. Average EV/EBITDA – by Sector
45.0
41.3
40.0
35.0
30.0
25.0
20.0 18.3
16.4
15.0
12.7 12.2
10.8 10.1
9.2 9.0
10.0
6.9 6.6
5.0 4.0
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Diversified
Advertising
Internet Retail
Search
Mobile
Enterprise
Gaming
Social Networking
Collaboration
Media
Marketing
Dating
# Companies 1 3 2 13 5 2 6 1 6 2 1 1
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13. Average P/E – by Sector
100.0
90.0 87.6
80.0
70.0
60.0 56.5
50.0
40.3
40.0 35.9
30.0
23.3
19.2
20.0
14.3 13.1 13.0
10.0 7.3
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Internet Enterprise Collaboration Diversified Social Marketing Advertising Gaming Media Virtual World
Retail Networking
2 3 1 9 17 5 3 28 10 2
# Companies
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15.0
20.0
25.0
30.0
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40.0
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50.0
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Ac credited Members H olding C orporation
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G ree, Inc .
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DigitalP os t Interactive, Inc .
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Mood Media C orporation
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Ac celeriz e New Media, Inc.
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F rogs ter Interac tiv e P ic tures AG
C hangyou. com Limited
Mix i, Inc.
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S ohu.c om Inc .
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S hutterfly, Inc.
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G ungH o O nline E ntertainment, Inc .
P latforma Mediowa P oint G roup S . A.
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Myriad G roup AG
NeuL ion Inc orporated
Webz en Inc.
G amania Digital E ntertainment C o., L td.
Accredited Members
Hutc his on T elec ommunic ations Hong
revenue multiple at 43x
Y D O nline C orp.
Holding Co. has highest
S park Network s , Inc .
U nilav a C orporation
2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
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Y nk K orea Inc.
NetDragon WebS oft, Inc.
AQ Interactive, Inc .
P oints International L td.
Internet G roup S A
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T he New Y ork T imes C ompany
IAC /InterAc tiv eC orp.
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Northgate T echnologies Limited
T heS treet. com, Inc .
U nited O nline, Inc .
Unis erve C ommunic ations C orp.
AO L, Inc.
C DC C orp.
G lu Mobile, Inc .
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
G igaMedia L td.
T ree. C om, Inc .
Actoz S oft C o., Ltd.
C y berplex Inc.
O penwav e S y s tems Inc.
R ealNetwork s Inc .
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G ameO n C o L td.
As k net AG
Look S mart, L td.
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DigitalT own, Inc.
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