$50m–<$500m
$100m · Strategic inflection point
Accelerate a platform shift, secure scarce technology/talent or control important distribution.
What would need to be true?
Exceptional adoption, strategic urgency, defensibility and real integration value; price alone does not specify the metric.
Buyer classes
- Large strategic acquirer
- Growth buyout / PE platform
Planning envelope
Effort: No defensible fixed effort budget
Commercial wins: Breakout distribution or technology advantage plus a motivated, funded buyer; large deal diligence.
Breakout stories often conceal years of company, team or ecosystem development.
Non-negotiable checks
- Board and regulatory process
- Employment / earnout conditions
- Buyer integration and security review
Examples in this price neighborhood
filing · closed$50,900,000filed price, net acquired cash · 2025-01-06
Relevant metrics: Unstructured customer-conversation intelligence; target revenue undisclosed.
Bring conversation intelligence into the customer platform.
Inspect evidence ↗filing · closed$50,100,000filed acquisition amount · 2026-06-15
Relevant metrics: AI discovery, intent classification and shadow-AI detection.
Integrate the technology into the F5 AI Security Platform.
Inspect evidence ↗filing · closed$145,200,000filed cash acquisition amount · 2025-09-26
Relevant metrics: Enterprise inference security; founded 2018; $40m+ venture funding.
Add AI threat defense, red-teaming and data-security capabilities.
Inspect evidence ↗primary · closed$80,000,000announced initial consideration · 2025-06
Relevant metrics: Buyer cites product traction and eToro / SimilarWeb partnerships.
Expand natural-language application creation and reach new audiences.
Inspect evidence ↗primary · closed$95,000,000announced cash transaction · 2022-12-15
Relevant metrics: Document-template library and self-service workflows; decade-old business.
Complete more of the document creation, signing and sharing workflow.
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