Valley Nordic S2 E18: Tech M&A

Valley Nordic - A podcast by Chander Chawla / Arne Tonning

Send us a textWe discuss the reasons why companies do M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) and review the recent acquisitions in the tech space. Also, we talk about the M&A scene in 2020 vs 2019 and themes of 2020 acquisitions. Following are the acquisitions we analyze: 1. Facebook buying Giphy 2. Microsoft buying Affirmed Networks, Softmotive, and Metaswitch Networks3. Apple buying NextVR 4. Zoom buying Keybase 5. Intel buying Moovit 6. Verizon buying BlueJeans