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Wednesday, July 14 2021 - 22:00
AsiaNet
SFW Capital Partners Completes Majority Investment in Global Search Intelligence Leader Captify
RYE, N.Y., July 14, 2021 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

  -- As Advertisers Put Privacy First, Company Poised for Further Global Growth
     with Search Data-Driven Platform

SFW Capital Partners, LP ("SFW") today announced that it has completed a 
majority investment in Captify Technologies Ltd. ("Captify"), a "privacy-first" 
search technology leader. Captify's Cookieless Search Intelligence builds 
dynamic audiences and delivers real-time consumer insights from 40 billion-plus 
monthly search events that global brands and advertising agencies use to power 
their programmatic media and marketing strategies. Existing investors, 
including management, will be reinvesting a portion of their proceeds into the 
company. Terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.

Founded in 2011 and headquartered in London, Captify is the only 
privacy-centric, first-party, search data ecosystem. Without reliance on 
third-party cookies, Captify is the largest independent processor of search 
data outside of Google. It was built on the foundation of the "open web" 
through direct integrations with the world's leading publishers and e-commerce 
providers. Captify's Search Intelligence Platform leverages a proprietary 
semantic engine that collects and connects search data and contextual signals 
over time and has been honed over the past decade, offering insights that are 
higher in intent and more granular than other platforms.

Far ahead of industry changes, the latest evolution of Captify's platform 
includes a unique cookieless, search-powered offering that allows advertisers 
to seamlessly transition to a consumer privacy-focused, cookieless future. 
Captify's unique search intent-based platform has made it a trusted partner for 
all six major media agency holding groups and an integral component of the 
digital marketing strategies of more than 800 leading brands, including Fortune 
500 companies such as Disney, Unilever, eBay, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, Nestle, 
GSK, Uber, Mars, P&G, Sony and Toyota.

"We are very excited to partner with Captify co-founder and CEO Dominic Joseph 
and his team in supporting the growth of the most powerful search intent 
data-driven marketing solution serving the open web," said Omair Sarwar, 
Partner at SFW. "Captify delivers higher performance than alternative 
solutions, all while focused on ensuring consumer privacy. The combination of 
this remarkable value proposition and the recent launch of its self-serve 
platform underpins a very strong historical annual growth rate that we will 
look to accelerate going forward."

"SFW Capital came to us with a unique advantage in understanding data-driven 
business models, with deep domain expertise in the search data ecosystem," said 
Joseph. "As the global advertising industry prepares to put privacy first and 
advertisers actively shift their dependencies away from Google, Captify is 
uniquely positioned to deliver intent-based advertising from search data. More 
importantly, to do so in the most privacy-centric way and in support of the 
open web. We are forging a new era of advertising for everyone-the consumer, 
the advertiser and the publisher. The team at SFW recognizes the huge global 
market opportunity that we are in prime position to capture. This, along with 
SFW's history of investments in founder-led businesses, gives us great 
confidence that they are the right partner for our next stage of growth."

SFW has a long history of investing in information and data-centric software 
businesses including GLG, a leading global information platform that provides 
insights for knowledge professionals; AGDATA, a leading provider of sales and 
marketing data for the agricultural sector; and MD Buyline, a leading provider 
of sophisticated healthcare analytics and supply chain spend intelligence.

About SFW Capital Partners, LP
SFW Capital Partners is a specialized private equity firm that invests in 
leading Information, Software, Industrial and Healthcare Technology companies. 
These companies, which include providers of information, software, 
instrumentation, laboratory products, and related solutions, provide a high 
return on investment to their customers and can serve a wide variety of 
end-markets. Our principals' 25+ years of investing in and experience with 
relevant business models, technologies, competitive dynamics and service 
requirements gives us confidence in our ability to support management teams in 
growing their companies and building value. For more information, 
visit www.sfwcap.com. 

About Captify Technologies
Captify is the leading Search Intelligence Platform for the open web and the 
largest independent holder of first-party search data outside of Google, 
connecting the real-time searches from over 2 billion devices globally. Its 
Search Intelligence technology powers omnichannel programmatic advertising and 
real-time insights for the world's biggest brands, such as Disney, Unilever, 
eBay, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, Nestle, GSK, Uber, Mars, P&G, Sony and 
Toyota-without reliance on third-party cookies. Captify brings brands more 
customers, publishers greater yield and consumers the most relevant digital 
experiences.

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SOURCE: SFW Capital Partners

CONTACT: For SFW: Tom Faust, +1 646-502-3513, Tfaust@Stantonprm.com; or For 
Captify: Nicole Kapner, Senior Communications Manager, Captify, +1 516 343 
9134, nicole.kapner@captify.us