{"id":943161,"date":"2025-07-03T06:37:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T01:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=943161"},"modified":"2025-07-03T06:58:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T01:28:57","slug":"merger-of-french-and-swiss-business-software-firms-heralds-new-unicorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/03\/merger-of-french-and-swiss-business-software-firms-heralds-new-unicorn\/","title":{"rendered":"Merger of French and Swiss business software firms heralds new unicorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ZURICH: A merger between French business software provider LumApps and its Swiss peer Beekeeper will create a new unicorn worth about $1.1 billion, the two companies said. <\/p>\n<p>The deal announced on Wednesday, which is due to complete this month, is backed by British private equity group Bridgepoint, which was previously a major shareholder in LumApps and will hold a majority stake in the new firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZURICH: A merger between French business software provider LumApps and its Swiss peer Beekeeper will create a new unicorn worth about $1.1 billion, the two companies said. The deal announced on Wednesday, which is due to complete this month, is backed by British private equity group Bridgepoint, which was previously a major shareholder in LumApps and will hold a majority stake in the new firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}