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How many companies actually sell for $17m? We mostly hear about the $50m+ ones or we hear about "talent acquisitions" which I presume are not $50m. What sort o
by ed209 15y ago
How many companies actually sell for $17m? We mostly hear about the $50m+ ones or we hear about "talent acquisitions" which I presume are not $50m.
What sort of companies get bought for $17m?
- rscale 15y agoThere are a lot of "boring" strategic acquisitions that happen in the 10-20m area. Small companies that are viewed as useful groups for large organizations to own, because they need/want the capability, or they're interested in preventing a competitor from grabbing it up.
- tensafefrogs 15y agoDoes anyone provide data on startup acquisitions each year? I know the amounts are usually private, but the numbers always seem to leak out (or at least estimated numbers). It would be interesting to do some data processing to look for trends and averages.
- ed209 15y agoafter being curious myself, remembered that crunchbase has some data. Around page 50 by price you get the $17m http://www.crunchbase.com/acquisitions?page=50&sort=price_desc http://www.crunchbase.com/acquisitions?page=50&sort=pric...
- byoung2 15y agohttp://www.crunchbase.com/acquisitions?page=51&sort=price_desc http://www.crunchbase.com/acquisitions?page=51&sort=pric...
- kooshball 15y agoCompanies get bought all the time without hitting the top of Techmeme. The companies that're commonly talked about on HN are just a small subset of the startup world. For example, look at this list. How many companies do you recognize? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Oracle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Oracle