Contact: Brenon Daly
Looking to increase its international business, Tangoe recently reached across the Atlantic for UK-based ttMobiles. The geographic expansion effort is a key initiative for Tangoe, which opened its European headquarters in Amsterdam less than a year ago. The company currently gets virtually all of its revenue from US-based customers, although a representative for Tangoe noted Wednesday that slightly more than one-quarter of the $16.8bn that flowed over its platform in the fourth quarter came internationally.
The purchase of ttMobiles is the third acquisition Tangoe has made since its IPO last summer. (And that’s on top of the five deals it inked as a private company.) Like most of its other acquisitions, the latest purchase by the communications lifecycle management vendor is a small one: Tangoe will hand over just $9m for ttMobiles. At the end of 2011, Tangoe was basically running at breakeven and had $43m in its treasury, mostly thanks to the IPO.
Tangoe expects ttMobiles to contribute $4.5m in revenue this year, meaning it is valued at basically 2 times projected sales. (For its part, Tangoe trades at more than 4x projected sales.) We understand that the company will continue to pursue deals that offer geographic expansion, as well as look to consolidate rivals to bulk up the number of customers it serves