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Startup news
Salesforce pays 6.8x revenue for Braze as rivals trade at 3x
Braze grew revenue 26% while lifting operating expenses 6%. Salesforce valued that gap at $5.66bn in cash, roughly double the multiple public investors were paying the day before.
№ 332 · 21 October 2026
Exit strategy
Adviser: bolting on AI can cut what a buyer will pay
Itay Sagie argues that copilots, model integrations and third-party AI tools often read to an acquirer as vendor dependency rather than innovation. His test is whether the AI leaves behind an asset nobody else can copy.
№ 121 · 23 August 2026
Startup news
$250m exit collapses into fraud and forged-signature claims
VideoVerse's investors are still waiting to be paid a year after the deal was announced. Its founder is now a defendant in a cluster of Delaware cases.
№ 71 · 13 August 2026