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deals: Women exits (via M&A, IPO or otherwise)

02 September 2008 by Simone Brummelhuis
Fund Raising, Law & Banking, Investors, VC Funding, Media, Tech & Health

Recently, TheNextWomen was asked to assist in compiling a list of women who led or founded companies that went through an exit. An exit can be the sale of a company or the company going public (an Initial Public Offering or IPO).
We have a large data base of Female Internet Heroes, women who are either CxOs, investors or founders of internet companies, but now we will also make a list of women exits.

Here's start:

  1. The sale of clothing company LK Bennett to Phoenix Equity in 2008.  Linda Bennet, who founded the company, made a deal worth 100 million pounds.
  2. The $125 million dollar acquisition of online women’s magazine Daily Candy by Comcast in 2008. Its founder is Dany Levy, who is also its Chairman, and Editor-in-Chief. Catherine Levene is its COO.
  3. The sale of Flickr to Yahoo for around $30 million in 2005. Catherina Fake is co-founder of Flickr.
  4. The sale of First Tuesday to Israeli venture Capital firm Yazam in 2000. Julie Meyer was a co-founder of First Tuesday.
  5. The sale of Lastminute.com to Travelocity in 2005.  Its co-founder Marthe Lane Fox sold the site for 667 million pounds.
  6. The sale of Friends Reunited to ITV in 2005. Friends Reunited was founded by Julie Pankhurst.
  7. The IPO of Dutch Directwonen.nl in 2006. The site was founded by Yvonne Swaans.
  8. The sale of weekendjeweg.nl to Holidaybreak. The company, of which the CEO was Marianne Baars, sold for €33.5 million.

Do you know of more succesful exits? Let us know!

I was looking for information

03 April 2009 by N. Wylie Jones (not verified)

I was looking for information on Martha Lane Fox and discovered your magazine. In my new book, The World's Most Creative (And Dangerous) Quote Book, (www.knowords.com) I will add The Next Women to the Creatography in the back of my book. I have a list of 101 Best Logical Magazines and the 101 Best Creative Magazines. (Yes, that's my opinion.)

I will tell other internet friends about your magazine.

I once taught in Edinburg as the only male teacher in a school for girls. I miss England and Scotland.

N. Wylie Jones
Richmond, Virginia

p.s. "Famous quotations are seeds for creativity, spark plugs for ideas, and ammmunition for debate." N. Wylie Jones

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