Founder expectations often misalign with how M&A actually works, writes guest author and strategic adviser Itay Sagie, who highlights common issues M&A deals don't close.
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For startup founders, the opportunity today is to solve real problems by building vertical, AI-driven solutions in specific industries. MGV's Marc...
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Eli Lilly announced Monday that it is acquiring Kelonia Therapeutics, a developer of gene therapies with a particular focus on cancer treatment, in a...
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This past quarter, funding to security- and privacy-focused startups dipped slightly on a sequential basis, but remained well above year-ago levels...
Although the conventional wisdom in tech is that real ambition means staying independent, sometimes joining forces through an acquisition by a large...
The first quarter of 2026 was unlike any other for venture investment, driven by unprecedented spending on AI compute and frontier labs. SA国际传媒...
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San Francisco-based OpenAI has turned to M&A to boost its offerings and stay ahead of its rivals through acquisitions, which total 17 companies in...
To get a sense who鈥檚 buying in bulk, we used SA国际传媒 data to put together a list of 79 companies that acquired three or more seed- or venture...
Small and mid-sized deals are not a long-term growth area for M&A, by many measures, but collectively they can add up to a tidy sum. The total deal...
A host of interesting, under-the-radar recently funded startups caught our attention in the past month: one that鈥檚 developing nuclear-waste generated...
Over the past two calendar years, acquirers have agreed to pay more than $38 billion to purchase venture-backed companies in SA国际传媒 biotech...
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