In 2013 Yahoo!‘s acquisitions have consistently been in the news. So far this year, Yahoo! has acquired 19 companies, including last week’s talent acquisition of Rockmelt. Other notable acquisitions include Xobni, Qwiki, Tumblr, and Summly.
CrunchBase tracks acquisitions, big and small. In today’s CrunchBase Daily, TrainSignal acquired Plural Sight for $24 million, Angie’s List acquired BrightNest for $6.3 million, and IBT Media acquired Newsweek. Here’s a quick breakdown of 2013 acquisitions found in the CrunchBase dataset:
21% of acquisitions were from San Francisco and 6% were from New York:
Earlier this month CB Insights compared acquisition data from DJ Venture Source, PWC Money Tree. Since CrunchBase wasn’t included in the analysis, we ran our own and added PitchBook, as well. In addition to data for this post, all of our data is available in an Excel spreadsheet.
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