Thought equity motion scores $ 25 million for cloud-based platform video

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Online video technology and personnel licensing service provider thought capital has raised $ 25 million by Shamrock Capital Advisors, the company announced this morning.

The company delivers video archive management and metadata "smart content" tools as a cloud service, as well as the rights of accumulation of development experiences. Thanks to its Web platform and global sales company licenses a wide range of sports, news, entertainment, editorial and creative content.

Thought equity offers its video technology and management infrastructure solutions for media companies, news organizations, sports rights holders, and video production companies around the world. Clients include BBC, National Geographic, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment and the NYT.

The company says that "tens of thousands of video producers use video licensing platform on a daily basis.

Thought equity new investor, Shamrock Capital Advisors is an independent Los Angeles based private equity firm focused on media, entertainment and communications.

The 2010 Shamrock private equity activities were formally separated from Shamrock Holdings, family Office for Roy e. Disney, longtime manager for the Walt Disney Company, which was founded by his father Roy Oliver Disney and his Uncle Walt Disney.

Thought equity CEO Kevin Schaff told the Denver post that used a small part of the funds from the Shamrock Capital Partners to repay old investors.

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30 years of publishing software Maker, Quark has acquired a private equity company

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Private Quark Publishing, which develops software for professional designers and businesses and is best known for his QuarkXPress (QXP) layout the layout editor, gained Platinum Equity, private equity firm that specializes in mergers and acquisitions.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Brian wall, partner at Platinum Equity, which was headed by engaging in procurement, said that the PE firm has kick-started the process focuses on the transition to a new property of Quark.

Based in Denver, Colorado, Quark provides a set of software applications that allow you to create, manage, publish and deliver content in various media, including print, email, web, social media, as well as e-readers, tablets and mobile devices. His main rival to Adobe.

The company was founded in 1981 under the name "Quark engineering". Quark previously owned by the family Ebrahimi, which acquired founder Tim Gill in 2000.

Platinum Equity was founded in 1995 by the billionaire (and the owner of the Detroit Pistons) Tom Gores and since completed more than 115 acquisitions. The Los Angeles company owns companies in both the San Diego Union-Tribune, United States Robotics, Vanguard networks, canvas and MegaPath.

Quark was founded in Denver, Colorado in 1981. Named makromira, proposed as the building block for all matter, the goal is to create software that will ...

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