IBM Mergers & Acquisitions

IBM M&A Summary

IBM has acquired 220 companies, including 41 in the last 5 years. A total of 51 acquisitions came from private equity firms. It has also divested 35 assets.

IBM’s largest acquisition to date was in 2018, when it acquired Red Hat for $34.0B. It’s largest disclosed sale occurred in 2014, when it sold IBM’s x86 Server Business to Lenovo Group for $2.1B. IBM has acquired in 26 different US states, and 21 countries. The Company’s most targeted sectors include software (55%) and information technology (24%).

M&A Summary

  • M&A Total Activity238
    • M&A Buy Activity204
    • M&A Sell Activity35
  • Total Sectors Invested 12
  • Total Countries Invested 21
  • M&A Buy/Sell Connections 106

IBM

International Business Machines Corp.

1 New Orchard Road,
Armonk, New York 10504
United States,
(914) 499-1900
www.ibm.com

All (238) Buy (204) Sell (34)
Date Target Value
$mlns
Transaction Type Acquirer Seller SRC
Link
2025-12-08 Confluent · Information Technology
Mountain View, California · www.confluent.io

Confluent is a data streaming platform that pioneers a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure that sets data in motion. The company's cloud-native offering is the foundational platform for data in motion designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. It helps organizations to meet the new business imperative of delivering rich, digital front-end customer experiences and transitioning to sophisticated, real-time, software-driven backend operations. Confluent was founded in 2014 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Revenue (mlns) 964 USD
Advisor: Cooley
11,000
11.4x REVENUE
Add-on Acquisition

IBM
Advisors: Barclays Investment Bank , Centerview Partners , J.P. Morgan Securities

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