Eagle Parent Holdings
Delaware acquisition vehicle through which Insight Venture Partners acquired E2open, Zyme, and Amber Road before its 2021 renaming.
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- Series B
Delaware acquisition vehicle through which Insight Venture Partners acquired E2open, Zyme, and Amber Road before its 2021 renaming.
The vehicle sold no product and marketed none: its presence on the record is the 2015 Insight Venture Partners tender for E2open, Inc. at $8.60 per share (Schedule TO-T, SEC), the Zyme Holdings acquisition whose premerger early termination notice is dated November 3, 2017, and the Amber Road merger agreement of May 12, 2019 at $13.05 per share funded by committed debt and equity financing per the 8-K. Directory profiles describing 251-500 employees describe the software operating companies the vehicle acquired, not the vehicle itself.
No sales motion, pricing page, ad library entry, or channel exists for a holding entity; the acquisition activity itself was financed by Insight Venture Partners IX funds and, for the Amber Road deal, committed debt and equity financing recorded in the merger 8-K, so reach and channel claims stay unwritten absent a measuring source.
Source: sec.gov
Rivalry: as an acquirer inside the Insight portfolio the vehicle bid in a small, deal-specific field; its $8.60-per-share 2015 offer for E2open was the sole disclosed bid on the record in the filings, and the 2019 Amber Road tender at $13.05 per share went unchallenged in the 8-K narrative, so rivalry evidence stays at the two disclosed processes. Medium.
New entrants: forming a competing vehicle requires committed fund equity, as recorded in the equity commitment letters for the Insight and Elliott affiliated funds in the Amber Road 8-K, and precedent financing; that capital requirement is the entry barrier the filings themselves state. High barriers.
Substitutes: a seller's alternatives were the public markets and other bidders; E2open had been listed on Nasdaq and Amber Road on the NYSE, and staying public was the substitute the boards weighed before recommending each tender. Medium.
Buyer power: the sellers were public-company boards negotiating single-buyer processes with break fees, the $14.9 million termination fee in the Amber Road 8-K being the recorded term; board-controlled single-buyer processes limit buyer side leverage. High seller leverage recorded, buyer pressure on terms limited.
Supplier power: the funding suppliers were the Insight Venture Partners IX funds and Elliott affiliated funds whose committed financing the 8-K recites; committed letters reduced pricing risk, and no separate financing cost is stated. Low.
Source: sec.gov
Eagle Parent Holdings, LLC was a single-purpose acquisition vehicle rather than an operating business: Insight Venture Partners IX, L.P. and affiliated funds were the other reporting persons on its SEC tender filings, and its address was in care of Insight Venture Management, LLC in New York.
The same Delaware company was renamed E2open Holdings, LLC, with its third amended and restated limited liability company agreement dated February 4, 2021, and WiseTech Global completed its acquisition of the E2open group in August 2025.
Source: ftc.gov