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Appen continuing to translate opportunity to success

Last year's Prime Minister's Australian Exporter of the Year winner, Appen has continued its expansion. Leading Australian private equity fund Anacacia Capital has joined the investor base alongside the current directors.

This expansion will support further growth of Appen's language technology services into new markets, segments and products. Appen is a global supplier to the intelligence, technology, call centre and automotive industries for applications that process text, speech and language.

Appen Director Chris Vonwiller welcomed the new investment. "We are pleased to welcome Anacacia Capital onto the share register alongside us. Anacacia will strengthen our non-executive Board as we position the business for further growth. We are already enjoying working with them on our strategic growth plans."

Jeremy A Samuel, Managing Director of Anacacia Capital, said "We are delighted to invest alongside the Appen team and support a great success story with their expansion."
Advisors included Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Thomson Playford Cutler, Deacons and Marsh.

About Appen Holdings Pty Ltd

Appen (www.appen.com.au) aspires to be the world's leading commercial supplier of language technology services. It provides high-end text, speech and language technology resources, products and services to many of the world's leading information technology, automotive, call centre and defence organisations. Services include the catalogues, resources, software products and expertise in over 100 languages. For more information please call Chris Vonwiller +61 409 949 834

About Anacacia Capital Pty Ltd

Anacacia Capital (www.anacacia.com.au) manages the Anacacia Partnership private equity fund and seeks to be Australia's leading private equity firm that specialises in small-medium enterprises. Anacacia provides strategic insight and capital to outstanding management teams to help these businesses to grow. For more information please call Jeremy Samuel +612 9363 1222