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HGGC Acquires “Configure, Price, Quote” Software Leader FPX

The Leading West Coast U.S. Private Equity & Venture Capital Event February 1-3, 2016 Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco

HGGC portfolio companies Selligent, a Belgium-based marketing automation and data management solutions provider and Redwood City, California-based StrongView, a contextual marketing company, have merged.

In September, the tech-focused PE firm invested in StrongView and in July backed Selligent, which boasts Audi and Samsung as clients

Opening the Event is Rich Lawson from HGGC

StrongView, a leading provider of contextual marketing solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement for a strategic growth investment from HGGC.

Investment to Propel Company's Global Reach

Middle market private equity firm HGGC is expected to announce an acquisition of a European automated marketing software company called Selligent for an undisclosed sum, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

Partners at the private equity firm, which include former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young, know a lot about how to draft and coach a Super Bowl-winning team.

Closing an impressive nine acquisitions and one exit in 2014, tech-focused private equity firm HGGC also raised a successful new fund and proved its enduring vitality, despite a change in leadership and a new company name.

Private equity firm HGGC – formerly Huntsman Gay Global Capital – has held a final closing of its second fund, HGGC Fund II, LP, with total capital commitments of $1.33 billion, handily beating the target of $1 billion.

Founders still with the firm are Rich Lawson, Greg Benson and former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young

HGGC Raises $1.33 Billion Fund II

Leading Provider of Data Solutions and Technology for Market Researchers

HGGC, a middle-market private equity firm, announced on Monday that it had bought a majority stake in Survey Sampling International, jumping into the business of providing corporate surveys.

Cover Story - HGGC applies an old-school PE approach to acquiring MWG

Despite rising valuations in the software industry, HGGC continues to close deals.

The firm, co-founded by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young (pictured), announced purchases of AutoAlert, Polaris Library Systems and closed on a Jabil Circuit unit

A Win-Win for HGGC and Serena Software

HGGC has agreed to acquire Serena Software, which provides IT application development and deployment solutions, from Silver Lake Partners.

Bloomberg Television's Deirdre Bolton Interviews HGGC CEO Rich Lawson

Software was one of the most active sectors for middle-market M&A in 2013

In Their Own Words: HGGC’s Rich Lawson

Acquisitions editor-in-chief Mary Kathleen Flynn interviews Rich Lawson on the generational shift.

Several of today's PE leaders share a common past

All Committed Capital from Debut Fund Returned to Investors

HGGC Strikes Deal for MyWebGrocer

SAP to Acquire hybris to Deliver Next-Generation Customer Experience

The Hybris deal closed Monday. Greylock Israel and HGGC, an existing investor, also participated, according to a statement.

HGGC has acquired an electronic-commerce software company based in Germany called hybris amid escalating deal activity in the software and services sector.

Private equity firm HGGC has orchestrated a tri­border deal between portfolio company iCongo Inc., a Canadian commerce software company, and its German rival Hybris GmbH.

Less than two years after closing a $1.1bn debut fund, the firm has completed 16 deals and is reaping the benefits of having built ‘a firm, not a fund,’ says co-founder Richard Lawson