Great Hill Partners

2011-09-28
SterilMed Acquired by Ethicon Endo-Surgery, a Johnson and Johnson company

Boston, MA--September 28, 2011--Great Hill Partners Announces the Sale of SterilMed, Inc. to Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.--SterilMed, Inc. (SterilMed), a Minnesota-based healthcare cost containment company, has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. (EES).  SterilMed is a leading reprocessor of single-use medical devices and a provider of small equipment repair services for healthcare providers across the United... view full story

2011-08-08
Great Hill Partners Acquires Plimus for $115M USD

New ownership to fuel continued growth of Plimus as the leading global e-Commerce, marketing and payment platform for digital goods, online services and SaaS business models.

Fremont, CA – August 8, 2011 – Great Hill Partners announced today the acquisition of Plimus Inc., from a shareholder group including Susquehanna Growth Equity LLC, Plimus founders, key management members and employees. Plimus enables businesses to “take charge" and assume full control of... view full story

2011-06-22
CSN Stores Raises $165 Million "First Round" to Expedite Expansion & Bolster Branding

Leading Online Home Goods Retailer Attracts Four Prestigious Investors To Help Guide Growth & Launch New Mega-Site That Has It All For The Home

BOSTON, June 22, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- CSN Stores (www.csnstores.com), one of the largest online retailers of housewares and home furnishings in the U.S., announced today that it has raised $165 millionin funding from four investment firms to increase its... view full story

2011-02-15
All Web Leads, Inc. Joins Forces with Great Hill Partners to Acquire InsuranceLeads.com

Combination Creates Industry's Only "End-to-End" Online Marketing Services Company Focused Exclusively on Insurance AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- All Web Leads, a leading online sales lead generation company supplying the US insurance industry, announced today that it had acquired InsuranceLeads.com, a leading provider of online leads to insurance agents, brokers and carriers. To finance the acquisition All Web Leads has teamed with Great Hill Partners, a Boston... view full story

2011-01-13
Remaking Dun & Bradstreet for the Internet Age

A D&B spin-off aims to move beyond credit reports and help small businesses track their reputations online By John Tozzi The Dun & Bradstreet brand has been synonymous with credit reports for most of its 159-year history. To business owners like Marilyn Landis, though, the name also means hard-sell pitches for information few businesses need. Her Pittsburgh financial consulting firm, Basic Business Concepts, got a call from D&B in December with a warning that... view full story

2011-01-04
Ziff Davis Shakes Up Publishing Model, Launches Ad Platform, Acquires Coupon Co.

MediaPost News Online Media Daily Laurie Sullivan, Jan 04, 2011 07:30 AM Digital publishers looking to supplement ad revenue may want to look toward Ziff Davis. The company on Tuesday unveiled the launch of the ad platform BuyerBase and revealed the acquisition of LogicBuy.com, which provides tech deals and coupons. BuyerBase, an audience-based ad-targeting platform, relies, in part, on a piece of code embedded in more than 100 content and commerce Web sites owned by Ziff... view full story

2011-01-04
Dell to Buy Managed Security Provider SecureWorks

The software-as-a-service products will be an option in Dell's servers, storage products, and security appliances. The software-as-a-service products will be an option in Dell's servers, storage products, and security appliances. By Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek Jan. 4, 2011 Dell has agreed to buy SecureWorks in an all-cash deal that will give the computer maker its first branded managed security service as the company builds out its software-as-a-service offerings to... view full story

2010-11-01
Great Hill Partners Announces the Sale of Central Security Group, Inc.

Boston, MA -- November 1, 2010 -- Great Hill Partners (“Great Hill” or “GHP”) today announced the sale of Central Security Group, Inc. (“Central Security”), a leading provider of residential and commercial alarm monitoring services, to an affiliate of Summit Partners. Headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and founded in 1999 by industry veterans, Mark Wilson and Harry Schenk, Central Security provides alarm monitoring services to residential customers across 12 Southern and South... view full story