Tech Company M&A Transactions

SpinVox Acquisition

On 12/30/2009, SpinVox was acquired by Nuance Communications. The companies indicated that total deal value was $102.5 million.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
12/30/2009
Transaction Type
M&A
Amount
$102,500,000
M&A Terms
Nuance SpinvoxNuance has confirmed the story VentureBeat broke earlier this morning, that it has acquired voice-to-text company SpinVox for $102 million. Of that, $66 million will be in cash, the rest in stock.

Company Information

Company Status
Acquired or Merged
Industry
Communications
Mailing Address
1115 Broadway 12th Floor
New York, NY 10010
USA
Email Address
Overview
We launched in 2005 through The Carphone Warehouse, The Link and other retail channels. Pretty soon we had over 130,000 regular users, with an unprecedented customer retention rate of 80%. People who started speaking through SpinVox soon found they couldn't live without it.
Profile
SpinVox LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
SpinVox Company Twitter Account
Company News
SpinVox News
Facebook
SpinVox on Facebook
YouTube
SpinVox on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Christina Domecq
  Christina Domecq LinkedIn Profile  Christina Domecq Twitter Account  Christina Domecq News  Christina Domecq on Facebook
Chief Financial Officer
Manoj Parmar
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Chief Information Officer
Rob Wheatley
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Chief Technical Officer
Philip Marnick
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Co-Founder
Daniel Doulton
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Vice President
James Scroggs
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