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The Most Active Startup Acquirers Of The Past 3 Years Aren’t Always Who You’d Expect

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Crunchbase News - Funding Ma Title: The Most Active Startup Acquirers Of The Past 3 Years Aren’t Always Who You’d Expect Date: 2026-03-20 11:00 Source: https://news.crunchbase.com/ma/most-active-startup-acquirers-3-years-crm-openai-snowflake/ <p>Companies that buy a lot of startups don’t always have a lot in common.</p…
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  • Salesforce has purchased at least 91 companies in the past 20 years

    60% confidence

  • OpenAI has bought 16 companies in the past three years

    60% confidence

  • Six companies made six or more known purchases in the past three years

    60% confidence

  • 79 companies acquired three or more seed- or venture-backed startups in the past three years

    60% confidence

  • The AI sector's appetite for acqui-hires and smaller purchases of earlier-stage startups continues to boost momentum

    60% confidence

  • Snowflake has 19 acquisitions to date

    60% confidence

  • Salesforce, OpenAI and Snowflake are the most prolific acquirers of seed- and venture-backed startups in recent years

    60% confidence

  • The pace of startup M&A dealmaking remains fairly robust in 2026

    60% confidence

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Salesforce · total acquisitions91 companies
OpenAI · total acquisitions16 companies
Snowflake Inc. · total acquisitions19 companies
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Q4 2026 Biotech Catalyst Window: ESMO Data, the Ivonescimab PDUFA and Small-Cap Delistings
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Ford Motor Company
Both facts give cash for Ford Motor Company at the same point in time (2025-12-31; FY 2025 year-end and Q4 2025 year-end are the same date). Both are labelled USD, but the values are 23,356,000,000 and 23.356, which cannot both be true in USD. The two numbers agree once the second is read as billions (23.356 bn = 23,356,000,000), so the economic content is consistent and the conflict is a unit/scale error in the Q4 2025 record. The period is not the reason for the conflict: a Q4 and an FY figure at the same year-end date should match.
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