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Kape - Another PIA sized VPN lump likely to be acquired in H1

December 2020

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If anything, the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the requirement for staff to work remotely, dramatically accelerating the digital transformations for many companies and industries. I expect many of these changes will become permanent and demand for VPN subscriptions, which allow employees to connect safely to their work networks, is expected to grow three-fold to US$70bn by 2026. To recap, in the last four and a half years, Kape (KAPE; 174.5p) has completed five acquisitions, deploying over US$159m of capital on its M&A strategy. Three of these acquisitions were of VPN brands: PIA, CyberGhost and ZenMate and in total had 2.4m VPN subscribers when Kape reported in September.During the month, Kape announced a hugely oversubscr ...

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UP Global Sourcing

Growth Portfolio 3 - December '20

Kape - Sagi raises original bid price (May 2023)

Kape - Unikmind makes 285p cash offer (March 2023)

Kape - To unveil Websitebuilder at forthcoming capital markets day (October 2022)

Kape (July 2022)

Kape (May 2022)

Kape - Sales substantially over forecasts (February 2022)

Kape (October 2021)

Kape (August 2021)

Kape - +68% upgrade to eps forecasts (April 2021)

Kape (February 2021)

Kape (October 2020)

Kape (May 2020)

Kape (April 2020)

Kape - LTV balloons 260% to US$99m (February 2020)

Kape - 70% eps accretive deal (December 2019)

Kape - 1.02m SaaS users (+83%) (October 2019)

Kape - H1 Ebitda +40% (September 2019)

Kape (July 2019)

Kape - Adds 117k cyber security customers in first four months (June 2019)

Kape - Technologies Sales to grow 48% this year (April 2019)

Kape (February 2019)

Kape - Acquisitions bed in well (January 2019)

Kape - Another acquisition (November 2018)

Kape - Existing users to deliver US$18m of revenue (October 2018)

Kape - Buys Integro for US$16m (August 2018)

Kape Technologies - Strong FY17 begets strong FY18 (April 2018)

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