
Carlyle-backed Expereo acquires Border 6
Carlyle Group's portfolio company Expereo has bolted on French internet access and network provider Border 6.
With the acquisition of Border 6, Expereo's cloud service platform XCA will integrate the technology developed by the French internet provider. XCA will now be deployed across data centres and customer sites.
Carlyle backed Expereo in July 2014 from its fund Carlyle Europe Technology Partners III, which closed on a hard-cap of €656m in May 2015.
Company
Headquartered in Annecy, France, and founded in 2012, Border 6 is an internet access provider for medium-sized and large corporations. The company develops a BGP-SDN toolkit for multi-homed internet access management and optimisation.
People
Border 6 – Francois Devienne (CEO).
Expereo – Irwin Fouwels (CEO).
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