Clearhaven Partners buys Israeli co SundaySky

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Israeli customized video system organization SundaySky has declared that it has bought regulate in the corporation to US personal fairness company Clearhaven Associates. At the exact time SundaySky has declared that it is laying off 13% of its workforce totaling 24 workers in Israel, the US and Japan.

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SundaySky’s announcement is slender on particulars but suggests that Clearhaven Companions will make investments about $100 million in the company with some of the revenue going to present shareholders to order a stake of additional than 50% and some into the company’s coffers for upcoming investment.

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This quantity is significantly under the $280 million valuation that SundaySky prepared at the begin of the year to receive in a Tel Aviv Stock Exchange IPO. The organization was reportedly already drawing up its prospectus and hoped to increase $70-100 million.

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SundaySky was founded in 2007 by president and CPO Shmulik Weller and CTO Yaniv Axen. Since 2017 the company’s CEO has been an American – Jim Dicso. The business has elevated $75 million to day from buyers which include Viola Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Classic and NTT Docomo.

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SundaySky enables corporations to deliver personalised online video clips for their consumers which include personal facts of the consumer from their title and the use they make of goods. So an coverage enterprise can make their annual report obtainable to all shoppers in a clip that features particulars about the buyer. Equally online ecommerce firms can create a video about unique products but making use of the identical in general clip – a new element that SundaySky launched only very last 12 months.

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In accordance to specifics printed at the finish of very last 12 months, SundasySky experienced once-a-year recurring profits (ARR) of far more than $40 million in 2021. The firm’s company design is built around yearly subscriptions for its software package.

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One particular of SundaySky’s rivals is Israeli enterprise Idomoo, which held an IPO on the TASE last calendar year at a organization valuation of NIS 344 million but has given that observed its share value slide by 80%. Idomoo experienced earnings of $13.1 million in 2021.

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Printed by Globes, Israel company information – en.globes.co.il – on July 11, 2022.

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