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West Hill SEIS/EIS investors agreed a substantial cash exit from Humio, making a 17.5x return

Humio

Humio is a world class, potentially category defining Business.

The Company’s principal opportunity comes from the exploding volumes of machine big data, the advent of cloud computing and the increasing complexity of an Organisation’s IT infrastructure. Humio has developed a market leading software tool that is licensed by corporate customers and enables them to aggregate, explore, report, and analyse big data that is produced by their IT systems.

Humio’s technology is an innovative, leading-edge and cost-competitive solution, that requires significantly less hardware and engineering resources to be deployed than many of their competitors. Their software compares extremely favourably to even the largest unicorn companies in the sector.

The $50billion California based cybersecurity technology business, Crowdstrike Holdings Inc (Nasdaq: CRWD), have announced that they have agreed to acquire 100% of the share capital in Humio, in a transaction that values the Business in excess of $400million.

The agreed acquisition crystallises a very substantial multiple return for all West Hill introduced investors, with Humio progressing from an early-stage SEIS opportunity to a $400million exit in a little over three years.

 

  • Capital Raising £4.4m SEIS/EIS equity
  • Investors HNWI, Family offices, Industry investors, Corporate technology investor, Principals of West Hill, Accel Partners.
  • Exit Accel Partners, the US based VC that has invested in several very large global businesses during their early stage funding rounds, has subsequently invested $9m in Humio. Accel invested around 12 months after the close of the West Hill offer at a 284% premium to the price paid by West Hill introduced investors. Dell Technologies Capital have subsequently invested in Humio
  • Substantial cash exit agreed with $50billion California based cybersecurity technology business, Crowdstrike Holdings Inc (Nasdaq: CRWD), announcing that they have agreed to acquire 100% of the share capital in Humio, in a transaction that values the Business in excess of $400million.