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With Google’s $32B Bid For Wiz, Big Exits Are Finally Picking Up

Joanna Glasner

March 18, 2025

The past two weeks have brought a flurry of big-ticket M&A deals and IPO filings. The action culminated today with Google’s announcement of a planned...

Layoffs • M&A • Media & entertainment tech

Scopely’s $3.5B Niantic Purchase Is Gaming’s Biggest Private M&A Deal In Years

Joanna Glasner

March 12, 2025

Mobile gaming company Scopely announced it will acquire Pokémon Go maker Niantic’s games business in a deal valued at $3.5 billion.

Artificial intelligence • M&A

Moveworks Delivers Big Exit For Early VCs

Joanna Glasner

March 10, 2025

ServiceNow announced this morning that it is acquiring Moveworks, provider of an enterprise AI assistant platform, for $2.85 billion in cash and...

IPO • M&A • Startups • Workplace

Want To Sell Your Startup Quickly To A Strategic Buyer? Consider This From The Get-Go

Guest Author

March 10, 2025

Whether buying a startup or selling one, there are plenty of steps that need to be considered, writes guest author Murat Abdrakhmanov. In this...

Fintech & e-commerce • Health, Wellness & Biotech • IPO • M&A • Sales & Marketing • Startups • Venture

The Most-Active, Spendiest Startup Investors Are Lagging Greatly In Lucrative Exits

Joanna Glasner

March 3, 2025

The most active, highest-spending startup investors are leading a lot of large new rounds lately. When it comes to exits, however, things look much...

Artificial intelligence • Cloud computing • Crypto • Cybersecurity • Fintech & e-commerce • Health, Wellness & Biotech • M&A • Startups • Venture

Startups Go Shopping: More VC-Backed Companies Bought Their Brethren Last Year

Chris Metinko

February 20, 2025

Last year, there were nearly 400 deals in which startups bought other startups — a 31% surge — per SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ data, with the year ending particularly...

M&A • Startups • Venture

The House of Cards Built By Startups And VCs: Can Trust Be Restored?

Guest Author

February 12, 2025

While bubbles, deception, spin and outright misrepresentation seem to have become the norm in today's startup and VC market, there are solutions. In...

M&A • Politics and regulation

Why Tax Compliance Is Vital For A Successful Exit

Guest Author

February 4, 2025

The outlook for IPOs remains slim, so startups are increasingly turning to the M&A market to cash in on recent success. Whether that's now or in the...

Artificial intelligence • M&A • Public Markets • Regional • Startups • Venture

The State Of Startups In 12 Charts: AI Soars, Asia Tanks, Seed Stalls And More 

Marlize van Romburgh

February 3, 2025

Along with a sizzling AI market, other trends that emerged from our reporting and data include a cooler seed funding environment and hotter M&A...

Enterprise • M&A • Politics and regulation

There May Be No Better Time To Sell Your Business, So Get Your IP House In Order

Guest Author

February 3, 2025

William H. Honaker, a former USPTO examiner and a partner with Dickinson Wright PLLC, says several factors lead him to predict mergers and...

M&A • Workplace

Cultural Collateral: Why People Are Important For A Successful M&A Transaction 

Guest Author

January 23, 2025

Financial aspects of an M&A deal are only part of the equation, writes Jason Williams, chief talent officer for Thomson Reuters, who shares what he's...