Clearhaven Partners buys Israeli co SundaySky
Israeli customized movie platform firm SundaySky has introduced that it has offered management in the corporation to US private equity agency Clearhaven Companions. At the same time SundaySky has declared that it is laying off 13% of its workforce totaling 24 employees in Israel, the US and Japan.

SundaySky’s announcement is skinny on facts but says that Clearhaven Companions will invest more than $100 million in the enterprise with some of the income heading to present shareholders to obtain a stake of additional than 50% and some into the company’s coffers for future financial investment.




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This volume is much under the $280 million valuation that SundaySky planned at the get started of the yr to receive in a Tel Aviv Inventory Exchange IPO. The business was reportedly currently drawing up its prospectus and hoped to increase $70-100 million.

SundaySky was founded in 2007 by president and CPO Shmulik Weller and CTO Yaniv Axen. Considering the fact that 2017 the firm’s CEO has been an American – Jim Dicso. The enterprise has raised $75 million to date from buyers like Viola Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Vintage and NTT Docomo.

SundaySky makes it possible for businesses to develop personalized movie clips for their prospects like particular facts of the consumer from their identify and the use they make of products. So an insurance policies corporation can make their once-a-year report offered to all consumers in a clip that features facts about the consumer. Equally on-line ecommerce businesses can make a online video about various products and solutions but working with the identical overall clip – a new function that SundaySky launched only final yr.

In accordance to particulars released at the end of very last 12 months, SundasySky had yearly recurring profits (ARR) of far more than $40 million in 2021. The company’s business model is crafted about annual subscriptions for its software.

A single of SundaySky’s rivals is Israeli organization Idomoo, which held an IPO on the TASE past year at a corporation valuation of NIS 344 million but has considering that seen its share value fall by 80%. Idomoo had earnings of $13.1 million in 2021.

Posted by Globes, Israel business enterprise news – en.globes.co.il – on July 11, 2022.

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