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“Doubling down on M&A” is how Thrive’s chief executive described the plan in October 2025. The Massachusetts provider of managed IT, cloud and cybersecurity services has made 27 IT services acquisitions in our records since 2016, five of them in 2025, and its revenue, approaching $400M in 2025, is meant to reach $1bn by the […]

In October 2026 Salesforce agreed to buy Braze, the customer engagement platform, for cash, after a 2025 that was its busiest year for acquisitions since 2016, with eight deals. Our records hold 51 Salesforce software acquisitions from 2015 to 2025, and its annual reports put the consideration for the acquisitions they name since fiscal 2016 […]

What an EMC or product safety testing lab is worth, based on disclosed deals, and the testing groups and investors buying them.

Cisco pays a high multiple of revenue for technology that fills a gap in one of its product lines: a median of 22.2x on the eight deals we can price, against 3.7x across private software deals. The money comes in steps. The San Jose networking group, with revenue of $63.3bn in its 2026 fiscal year, […]

Pharmaceutical, analytical and medical device testing labs: the multiples buyers have paid, what raises them and who is acquiring.

In the first half of 2026 Alphabet paid out more cash for acquisitions than in the eleven years before, even as its deal count fell from 48 software acquisitions in 2015 to 2019 to 8 in 2023 to 2025. Across the period our records hold 76 software acquisitions by Alphabet, announced from 2015 to 2025 […]