Zendesk terminates $4.1B SurveyMonkey acquisition after its own investors reject deal

Zendesk announced today that it was walking away from the proposed $4.1 billion deal to buy Momentive, the owners of SurveyMonkey, after stockholders rejected the deal. The announcement comes just two weeks after the company spurned a $17 billion takeover

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Following acquisition by Bowery, Traptic’s strawberry-picking robotics pivot to vertical farming

We’ve been charting Traptic’s progress ever since the South Bay-based startup appeared on the Disrupt Battlefield stage back in 2019. The company carved out a potentially meaningful agtech niche in California’s vast strawberry fields — farmland that accounts for around

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After the acquisition: 3 startup founders share their exit experiences

In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2014, then-CEO of Pure Storage, Scott Dietzen, was asked about the possibility of exiting via acquisition. He didn’t pull any punches: “Acquisitions always suck, and suck worse than you think that they are

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Particular function acquisition providers: Anything you require to know about SPACs

Dzmitry Dzemidovich/Getty Illustrations or photos Virgin Galactic, DraftKings, Nikola, 23andMe — all key firms that bypassed the conventional IPO process in favor of a less well-recognised choice for taking a company public. Just about every elevated thousands and thousands of

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