I have been calling for Intuit to start rolling up a SaaS portfolio for a while. [Read: ADP and Intuit Should Acquire Some SaaS, Intuit Needs To Acquire Into SaaS and SaaS Acquisitions Recommended For ADP and Intuit]. Well, Intuit just acquired PayCycle for $170 million, which was right at the top of my recommendation
SM: How do you view Serious Materials in the cleantech space? KS: Going forward, cleantech probably means a lot more building energy savings than it does solar, wind, and bio fuels. That is because the cost of carbon mitigation is a positive cost with all the supply-side dynamics.
Today’s Deal Radar focuses on a company that has used an alternative financing path than what we normally see. CAST makes an application intelligence platform that acts as a software assessment engine, going far beneath the business process layers of an application to analyze its architecture. The company claims that its product, CAST, has the