Contact: Brenon Daly
Back in January 2009, Tangoe made a small acquisition on its way to what we expected would be an IPO. Of course, neither the telecom expense management (TEM) vendor nor any other company was going to make it public in the first few months of last year. But with the recovery in the capital markets, Tangoe has indeed filed for its IPO, looking to raise $75m. The 10-year-old company plans to trade under the ticker ‘TNGO’ on the Nasdaq. We expect a fairly strong offering from Tangoe, which nearly doubled sales to $37.5m in 2008, and pushed that up another 49% to $56m last year despite the recession. See our full report on the company and the planned IPO.
Tangoe focuses on lifecycle management for fixed and mobile communications and more recently mobile device management. As a TEM provider, Tangoe has more than 350 companies using its expense management tools and services. The Orange, Connecticut-based vendor has pushed into the mobile communications space with the purchases of Traq Wireless in March 2007 and InterNoded in January 2009. Traq provided wireless expense management, helping Tangoe expand its lifecycle management for mobile as customers moved more of their communications off fixed lines. Offering deeper management and monitoring of these mobile devices, InterNoded gave Tangoe the ability to provision, secure and remotely wipe devices used by its customers.