Salesforce.com has acquired 55 companies, including 26 in the last 5 years. A total of 2 acquisitions came from private equity firms.
Salesforce.com’s largest acquisition to date was in 2019, when it acquired Tableau Software for $15.7B. Salesforce.com has acquired in 11 different US states, and 5 countries. The Company’s most targeted sectors include internet software and services (55%) and software (37%).
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| Buy (5.2/yr) | # | 29 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 55 |
| vol | $4.5B | $360M | $4.3B | $6.5B | $17.2B | $32.7B | ||
| Sell (0.0/yr) | # | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 |
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Tableau Software, Inc. $15.7B (2019-06-10) |
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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 969 internet software and services companies that have made at least 1 acquisition, 35 have acquired at least 5 companies, and 8 have acquired more than 10 companies.
The most prolific strategic internet software and services acquirer over the past 3 years is Alphabet, with 12 acquisitions. The most prolific private equity acquirer in the internet software and services sector over the past 3 years is Verdane Capital with 9 platform acquisitions.
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