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When a big company comes after a hot startup, it’s not a slam dunk decision to sell

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billion in 2017. We spoke to Harness CEO and founder Jyoti Bansal about his previous company, which Cisco bought for $3.7 © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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M&A Blog #23 – valuation (walk through / presentation)

Francine Way

On this very last valuation blog post, I'd like to walk us through a presentation I made back in April 2017 as a part of my master in finance fellowship Capstone presentation. The sound quality is much better this way.

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Salesforce to acquire Airkit.ai, a low-code platform for building AI customer service agents

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Founded in 2017, Redwood City, California-based Airkit was created by Adam Evans and Stephen Ehikian, who sold a previous big data startup called RelateIQ to Salesforce for $390 million […] Salesforce has announced plans to acquire Airkit.ai, a low-code platform that helps e-commerce companies build AI-powered customer service agents.

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M&A Blog #07 – debt (Part II – management considerations, debt alternatives, and acquisitions purse / war chest)

Francine Way

Similarly, a good M&A program has to take into account how each transaction and the overall program should be financed. We continue our debt discussion in this post by looking at management considerations on funding a M&A program. If there is enough surplus available, the remainder can be used to finance an M&A transaction.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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TipRanks, an AI-based stock tip evaluator created after its founder got burned by bad advice, sells for $200M to Prytek

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Prytek had already been a big investor in TipRanks since 2017, most recently leading a $77 million round in the company in 2021. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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M&A Blog #12 – sell-side acquisition (preparation)

Francine Way

Buying and selling a company has many overlaps to buying and selling a house. There are many reasons to sell a house: wanting liquidity and diversification (especially if the house is an investment property), lack of progress toward a financial / strategic goals (i.e. the house failed to increase in expected value), mature market (i.e.

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