Salesforce.com has acquired 51 companies, including 23 in the last 5 years. A total of 1 acquisition came from private equity firms.
Salesforce.com’s largest acquisition to date was in 2018, when it acquired MuleSoft for $6.5B. Salesforce.com has acquired in 10 different US states, and 5 countries. The Company’s most targeted sectors include internet software and services (55%) and software (38%).
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| Buy (4.4/yr) | # | 29 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 51 |
| vol | $4.5B | $360M | $4.3B | $6.5B | $15.6B | |||
| Sell (0.0/yr) | # | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 |
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MuleSoft, Inc. $6.5B (2018-03-20) |
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When analyzing the internet software and services sector as a whole, according to Mergr, in the last 3 years, there are 1129 internet software and services companies that have made at least 1 acquisition, 43 have acquired at least 5 companies, and 9 have acquired more than 10 companies.
The most prolific strategic internet software and services acquirer over the past 3 years is Alphabet, with 18 acquisitions. The most prolific private equity acquirer in the internet software and services sector over the past 3 years is Vista Equity Partners with 13 platform acquisitions.
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