Newfold Digital (Clearlake & Siris-backed) Acquires Yoast

Newfold Digital Acquires DLoja Virtual

February 1, 2023

Cloud & SaaS

Newfold Digital has acquired Brazilian e-commerce platform DLoja Virtual to expand its commerce offerings and better support HostGator Latin America customers. DLoja Virtual provides an easy-to-use online store builder with integrations to major Brazilian payment gateways and shipping providers, targeting small and medium-sized businesses in Brazil.

Newfold Digital Acquires MarkMonitor from Clarivate

November 1, 2022

Cybersecurity

Newfold Digital has completed its acquisition of MarkMonitor, an enterprise provider of domain management and protection solutions, from Clarivate. The deal, announced November 1, 2022, strengthens Newfold's enterprise domain management and security capabilities; Newfold is backed by affiliates of Clearlake Capital and Siris Capital.

WP Engine Acquires Delicious Brains' WordPress Plugins Business

June 27, 2022

Software

WP Engine acquired five popular WordPress plugins (Advanced Custom Fields, WP Migrate, WP Offload Media, WP Offload SES, and Better Search Replace) from Delicious Brains, adding approximately 4 million installs to its developer tool portfolio. The deal strengthens WP Engine's developer and headless WordPress capabilities and expands its suite of builder tools used by agencies and developers worldwide.

Newfold Digital (Clearlake- and Siris-backed) Acquires YITH

March 17, 2022

E-Commerce

Newfold Digital, backed by private equity firms Clearlake Capital and Siris Capital, has acquired YITH, a leading developer and seller of WooCommerce plugins and WordPress themes. The acquisition (terms not disclosed) expands Newfold's e-commerce capabilities by adding YITH's library of 100+ plugins and ~2.3 million active installs to its product portfolio.

Newfold Digital Acquires Deluxe's Australia Web Hosting Business (Hostopia Australia)

March 8, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Newfold Digital, a PE-backed web and commerce technology company, agreed to acquire Deluxe Corporation's Australia web hosting business (Hostopia Australia), a platform that serves more than 50,000 small business customers and hosts 250,000 websites. The deal, announced March 8, 2022, expands Newfold's presence in Australia and was described as part of Deluxe's portfolio-refinement strategy.

Clearlake Acquires Endurance and Makes Strategic Investment in Web.com to Form Newfold Digital

January 5, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

Clearlake Capital completed an all-cash acquisition of Endurance International Group and made a strategic investment in Web.com (with Siris remaining a significant equityholder), combining Endurance Web Presence and Web.com to form Newfold Digital. The combined business (Newfold Digital) will be a leading SMB-focused web presence platform serving roughly 6.7 million customers globally; financial terms for the Web.com investment were not disclosed and the Endurance transaction was valued at approximately $3.0 billion including debt.