Wandisco’s timeline of mystery, intrigue and secrecy

June 1, 2012: Wandisco, “the software development industry’s leading provider of global collaboration software” It floats in London’s junior market With a market cap of £37m. Panmure Gordon is named Nomad, who has raised £15m gross for the company.

November 19, 2012: Wandisco acquires AltoStor, a California startup, for $1.5 million in cash and $3.6 million in equity. AltoStor is the developer of Haloop, an open source tool for synchronizing network data, which will become the core of Wandisco’s product portfolio.

November 26, 2014: Wandisco is announcing a deal with an unnamed “US-based credit card and financial services company.”

January 8, 2015: Wandisco announces $750,000 contract extension with British Gas for smart meter analytics.

December 23, 2015: Wandisco is touting a deal with “a new client in the financial services space,” which it did not name, and “a larger contract with an existing telecoms client,” which it did not name.

June 10, 2016: Wandisco raises $15 million in IPO.

September 29, 2016: Founding CEO David Richards was fired.

October 6, 2016: Richards is reinstated and most of the board resigns.

September 25, 2018: Wandisco announced it is winning an “initial $200,000 contract with a major automotive customer,” which it will not name.

November 5, 2018: Wandisco announces “one million dollar contract with China’s leading information and communications technology provider,” which it does not name.

December 27, 2018: Wandisco is announcing a $700,000 contract with “a major US healthcare company” that it won’t name.

February 14, 2019: Wandisco raises $17.5 million in IPO.

April 1, 2019: Wandisco is announcing a $2.15 million contract with an unnamed “leading global provider of ICT infrastructure and smart devices in China.”

June 26, 2019: Wandisco announces a $750,000 contract with “one of the world’s largest Chinese-based mobile phone manufacturers,” which it does not name.

November 20, 2019: Wandisco announces an unspecified distribution deal with “Micro-D, one of Africa’s best-known IT companies”.

November 26, 2019: Wandisco is announcing a “more than $500,000 contract with an unnamed Fortune 500 technology company.”

December 3, 2019: Wandisco is announcing “contracts worth around $1 million” with “a major US financial institution” it won’t name, and a “global high-tech company”.

December 12, 2019: Wandisco is announcing a “contract extension” worth about $1 million with an unnamed “existing Chinese customer.”

November 1, 2020: Wandisco is announcing an “initial deal worth up to $1m with a major UK supermarket”, which it will not name.

November 30, 2020: Wandisco announces “a $3 million deal with one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies,” which it won’t name.

September 30, 2021: Wandisco is “entering into a contract worth a minimum of $1 million and a maximum of five years” with an unnamed “analytics division of one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies.”

March 10, 2021: Wandisco raises $30 million in IPO.

December 9, 2021: Wandisco is announcing a contract worth “a minimum of $6 million over five years” with an unnamed “major European auto parts supplier.”

December 13, 2021: Wandisco has announced that it is “dealing with five of the biggest UK banking groups”, which it will not name.

December 20, 2021: Wandisco announces “a $3.3 million, three-year license agreement with a major North American multinational investment bank,” which it will not name.

March 23, 2022: Wandisco announced that it is entering into “a $1.5 million deal with the world’s top ten telecommunications companies,” which it will not name.

March 31, 2022: Wandisco announced that it is entering into “additional agreements worth $1.2 million with ten of the largest global communications companies,” which it will not name.

April 5, 2022: Wandisco announces a “$630,000 contract with one of Europe’s largest insurance groups”, which is not a name.

April 6, 2022: Wandisco announces a “$720,000 deal with the world’s top 10 retailers,” which it won’t name.

April 7, 2022: Wandisco announces “a $213,000 contract with the world’s leading personal computer manufacturer,” which it won’t name.

June 28, 2022: WANdisco announced that it had “signed the largest contract ever signed by anyone at $11.6 million with ten of the world’s largest communications companies,” which it did not name.

June 30, 2022: Wandisco is announcing two contracts worth a total of $2.5 million with unnamed “leading information and communications technology providers.”

July 6, 2022: Wandisco is announcing a $1.1 million contract with “a major Canadian financial services company,” which it won’t name.

September 21, 2022: Wandisco announces that it has “signed its largest contract worth $25 million with ten of the world’s largest communications companies”, it does not name them.

October 4, 2022: Wandisco Announces “Additional Agreement Worth $7.1 Million. . . with a major European auto parts supplier,” he does not name.

December 13, 2022: Wandisco announces “an additional $13.2 million agreement. . . with a major European auto parts supplier,” he does not name.

December 20, 2022: Wandisco is announcing an unnamed “$31 million deal with a second-tier Tier 1 global telecommunications carrier.”

December 22, 2022: Wandisco is announcing a $12.7 million deal with an unnamed global, Europe-based automaker.

January 10, 2023: Wandisco is entering into a “$6.6 million contract with an unnamed European-based global telecommunications provider,” it said.

March 3, 2023:

March 7, 2023: Panmure Gordon, who has been Wandisco’s joint Nomad since float, will be replaced by Liberum with immediate effect.

March 9, 2023: Wandisco said it had suspended the sale of shares due to “significant, sophisticated and potentially fraudulent irregularities in the purchase orders received and related revenue and bookings represented by a senior sales employee,” which it did not name.