Acquisition Related Topics 
SaaStr
JANUARY 12, 2025
The post LinkedIn: The Greatest B2B Acquisition of All Time? LinkedIn is at $17 Billion in ARR, still growing 10%, and its whole division is wildly profitable with 50%+ operating margins! There may be better M&A deals in the history of B2B. But there cant be too many better ones. appeared first on SaaStr.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 12, 2024
Dear SaaStr: Why Are Buyers Not Ready to Spend Big on Acquisitions as Readily Today as in the Past? The Adobe acquisition of Figma will not go through after 15 months of regulatory review. In tech at least, there are two big issues: #1. Revenues Multiples Are Down Even the best public SaaS companies are worth ~10x revenue today.
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Tom Tunguz
APRIL 28, 2024
What drives the acquisition market of startups? If there are any increases, they tend to be in the bigger acquisitions of $500 million or more - although the sample size there is sufficiently small to conclude the trend is significant. Multi-billion dollar acquisitions, the blue bars, are the largest contributors to this swing.
SaaStr
JUNE 8, 2024
Dear SaaStr: Has Salesforce Overpaid for its Acquisitions, Including the $27.7 Billion Acquisition of Slack? It needed its top acquisitions to keep growing. In acquisitions, what’s much more important is that a few deals really perform over time. Billion Acquisition of Slack? It needed them. Without them?
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Tom Tunguz
JANUARY 15, 2023
I reviewed the roughly 560 US software acquisitions under $400m since January 1, 2020. ServiceNow tops the list with 5 acquisitions. Recruiter.com prefers small acquisitions: 4 purchases during the period, totalling less than $12m in value. Number of Acquisitions. To answer the question. Alphabet ingested 4 companies.
SaaStr
MAY 25, 2023
And it reminded me of a stretch when over 6 months or so, I met with a series of entrepreneurs that turned down pretty attractive acquisition offers, relatively early in their lifecycle: SaaS Co. #1 Every Big Tech company has a budget for sub-$100m acquisitions. Some are for “tuck-in” acquisition to fill feature gaps.
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