M&A Deal Summary

Google Acquires Pyra Labs

On February 1, 2003, Google acquired software company Pyra Labs

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Google’s 2nd transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Google’s 3rd transaction in the United States.
  • This is Google’s 2nd transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2003-02-01
Target Pyra Labs
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Google
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Pyra Labs

San Francisco, California, United States
Pyra Labs is a web application that focused on project and contact management. Pyra Labs offers Web publishing tools for writing Web logs.

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Buyer

Google

Mountain View, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1998
Sector Internet Software and Services
Employees190,234
Revenue 350.0B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
View of Google's corporate campus in Mountain View, California.
View of Google's corporate campus in Mountain View, California.

Google is a global provider of search and advertising services. In addition to its search engine, Google offers online tools and platforms including: Gmail, Google Apps, Google Maps, and YouTube. Google was incorporated in 1998 and is based in Mountain View, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 225
Sector: Software M&A 2 of 76
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 3 of 217
State: California M&A 2 of 115
Country: United States M&A 3 of 177
Year: 2003 M&A 1 of 6
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DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2003-04-01 Neotonic Software

San Francisco, California, United States

Neotonic Software was a CRM software company. Neotonic created software called Trakken 2.0.Trakken was an e-mail customer service software package that included power virus and spam filters.

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