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Shares of USA Technologies Inc., Malvern, hit a 10-year aerial of $6.75 in aboriginal trading Tuesday afterwards the mobile- and cashless-payments aggregation said it agreed to pay $85 actor ($65 actor cash, the blow in USAT shares) for a competitor, San Francisco-based Cantaloupe Systems Inc.
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Cantaloupe provides billow and adaptable solutions “for vending, micro markets, and appointment coffee service” in Canada, Australia and South America, forth with the United States.
The accretion “comes as brick-and-mortar retailers abide to attempt with how technology is alteration the retail landscape, alive customer demands and expectations,” USA Tech CEO Stephen Herbert said on his blog. “Consumers appetite faster, easier, customized and acceptable retail experiences.”
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The business has broadcast from automat machines, Herbert added: Barter now accommodate “everything from acclimation kiosks for Starbucks coffee to key-cutting machines at Home Depot” — anyplace quick automatic payments can alter animal workers.
If the accord is completed after this anniversary as scheduled, USA Tech will amalgamate its “market-leading” ePort Connect belvedere (and QuickConnect developer API Web developer service) with Cantaloupe’s SeedCloud casework into a distinct “unified platform,” Herbert added in a abstracted statement. USA Tech additionally will accretion admission to Cantaloupe barter in Australia, Canada and South America.
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By combining, the firms say they apprehend to cut costs, addition sales, and allotment value.
The client additionally will booty on $1.8 actor in Cantaloupe debt. The firms apprehend to abutting the accord by Friday. William Blair & Co. provided banking advice. Lurio & Associates P.C. and attorneys at BallardSpahr LLP of Philadelphia and at RatnerPrestia brash the buyer.
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“Cantaloupe’s award-winning, accurate acumen and billow technology, accompanying with USATechnologies’ market-leading, able-bodied and defended acquittal capabilities will accompany a absolutely distinctive, turn-key action band-aid to our market,” Cantaloupe CEO Mandeep Arora said in a statement. “USA Technologies’ banking backbone and industry brand of about 13,000 barter will accredit us to drive boilerplate acceptance of our technology.”
The auction amount is about four times the $22 actor raised by Cantaloupe over the years, admitting adjustment for aboriginal investors has been continued in coming. The aggregation was founded in 2004 with bisected a actor dollars in antecedent capital, aloft $5.4 million in 2006, added $12.4 actor from Global Environmental Basic and Foundation Basic in 2010, and topped it off with $4 actor from Foundation in 2015, according to abstracts aggregate at CrunchBase.
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Published: November 7, 2017 — 11:10 AM EST | Updated: November 7, 2017 — 11:11 AM EST
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