by admin | May 3, 2021 | boomi, Cloud, Dell, Enterprise, Francisco Partners, integration, ITAD News, M&A, Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity, TC, TPG
It’s widely known that Dell has a debt problem left over from its massive acquisition of EMC in 2016, and it seems to be moving this year to eliminate part of it in multi-billion chunks. The first step was spinning out VMware as a separate company last month, a move...
by admin | Apr 28, 2021 | Cloud, communications, email, Enterprise, Exit, Fundings & Exits, ITAD News, M&A, Mergers and Acquisitions, messagebird, Recent Funding, Startups, TC
MessageBird, a communications platform out of the Netherlands, had a busy day today with two huge announcements. For starters, the company got an $800 million extension on its $200 million Series C round announced last October. It then applied $600 million of the...
by admin | Mar 8, 2021 | Enterprise, ITAD News, M&A, McAfee, Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity, Security, Symphony Technology Group, TC
Security firm McAfee announced this morning that will be selling its enterprise business to a consortium led by the private equity firm Symphony Technology Group for $4 billion. It should pair well with RSA, another enterprise-focused security company the private...
by admin | Feb 26, 2021 | Atlassian, chartio, data visualization, Enterprise, Exit, Fundings & Exits, ITAD News, M&A, Mergers and Acquisitions, Startups, TC
The Atlassian platform is chock full of data about how a company operates and communicates. Atlassian launched a machine learning layer, which relies on data on the platform with the addition of Atlassian Smarts last fall. Today the company announced it was acquiring...
by admin | Nov 2, 2020 | APIs, Cloud, Developer, Enterprise, Exit, Fundings & Exits, ITAD News, Jeff Lawson, M&A, Mergers and Acquisitions, Peter Reinhardt, segment, Startups, TC, Twilio
It was barely a month ago we began hearing rumors that Twilio was interested in acquiring Segment. The $3.2 billion deal was officially announced three weeks ago, and this morning the communications API company announced that the deal had closed, astonishingly fast...
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Cloud, cloud optimization, Enterprise, Exit, Fundings & Exits, ITAD News, M&A, Mergers and Acquisitions, NetApp, SaaS, SPOT, Startups, Storage, TC
When Spotinst rebranded to Spot in March, it seemed big changes were afoot for the startup, which originally helped companies find and manage cheap infrastructure known as spot instances (hence its original name). We had no idea how big at the time. Today, NetApp...
