Dmailer (France) - Dec 2007

BNP Paribas Private Equity has led a €2.5m investment in Dmailer. The deal saw BNP invest around 60% of the €2.5m, while Alto Invest provided around 40% in a first round investment of Dmailer. The management retains a majority stake in the company.

Company

Dmailer was founded in 2001 and has successfully doubled its profits every year since its inception, currently estimated at more than €1m for 2007. The Marseille-based company is a major provider of portable back up and synchronisation software solutions for a range of mobile devices, the capital will be used mainly for Dmailer’s R&D programme which is geared towards ensuring the delivery of increasingly efficient and productive software solutions and boost its growth. Dmailer’s V7 product has been implemented on an international scale with 80% of sales being exports. The company will also use the funding to expand its team of sales and marketing professionals.

People

Lucas Léonardi is CEO of Dmailer. Nicolas Vaillant worked on the deal for BNP while Jean-François Paumelle and Franck Halley worked on behalf of Alto Invest.

Advisers

Equity - Bird & Bird, Caroline Basdevant-Soulié, Marc Baffreau (Legal)Equity - Cabinet Fischbach & Associés, Frédéric Girault, Martine Fischbach (Financial Due Diligence)Vendor - Multeam, Paul Berrux (Corporate Finance)Vendor - Rawlings Giles Sher LLP, Erwan Cossé (Legal)

Sourced from: France unquote" 89 (Mar 2008)

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