M&A Deal Summary

AWS Acquires Wickr

On June 25, 2021, AWS acquired internet software and services company Wickr

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is AWS’s 3rd transaction in the Internet Software and Services sector.
  • This is AWS’s 4th transaction in the United States.
  • This is AWS’s 1st transaction in New York.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2021-06-25
Target Wickr
Sector Internet Software and Services
Buyer(s) AWS
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Wickr

New York, New York, United States
Wickr is a company that has developed a secure, end-to-end encrypted, communication technology. With Wickr, customers and partners benefit from advanced security features not available with traditional communications services – across messaging, voice and video calling, file sharing, and collaboration.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

AWS

Seattle, Washington, United States

Category Company
Founded 2006
Sector Internet Software and Services
DESCRIPTION

AWS is a fully featured technology infrastructure platform in the cloud comprised of a broad set of compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment services from data center locations in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Ireland, Japan, and Singapore. AWS was established in 2006 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 5 of 5
Sector: Internet Software and Services M&A 3 of 3
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 5 of 5
State: New York M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 4 of 4
Year: 2021 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-03-08 Do.com

San Francisco, California, United States

Do.com is a platform to make meetings more productive by doing things like managing notes in preparation for them, and creating reports for those who were not there, as well as organising the meetings themselves.

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