Waterfront has advised the founders of Lenses.io on the recent acquisition of the company by Celonis, a global leader in execution management.
Lenses.io is a pioneer in the fast growing streaming data industry, and the acquisition brings real-time data streaming capabilities to Celonis’ Execution Management Platform. For more details about Lenses.io and the acquisition see here.
Waterfront’s Angus Young was the lead partner on the deal and was supported by partner Matt Cunningham and associate Charlotte Lang.
Founder and CEO Antonios Chalkiopoulos said: “We hugely appreciate all the work from Waterfront going above and beyond all expectations.”
Matt Cunningham said “I’m delighted for Christina, Antonios and rest the Lenses.io team. It has been great working with them since the company’s seed round back in 2017, and I look forward to seeing what the future has in store for the business.”
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