Reading up on acquisitions
13 deep · digging since dec 04, 25
- VoidZero is joining Cloudflare
VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare; the tools will remain open source and vendor-agnostic, with Cloudflare committing $1M to a Vite ecosystem fund.
- Anthropic acquires Stainless
Anthropic has acquired Stainless, a company that generates polished API SDKs, to bolster its developer experience and API infrastructure.
- Anthropic acquires Stainless
Anthropic acquires Stainless, an SDK-generation startup, to gain a high-caliber team for building API integrations for AI agents.
- OpenAI Bought Company That Offered A.I. Tools for Cloning Voices
OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, a social network for creating and sharing AI algorithms, which offered voice-cloning tools.
- GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
GameStop made a $55.5B cash-and-stock offer for eBay, proposing CEO Ryan Cohen lead a turnaround with $2B cost cuts and claiming eBay could rival Amazon.
- SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
SpaceX has a potential deal to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for collaboration, sparking debate on valuation and strategy.
- Clockwise acquired by Salesforce
Salesforce acquires and shuts down calendar scheduler Clockwise by March 27, 2026, with widespread HN criticism.
- Meta acquires Moltbook
Meta acquires Moltbook, the AI agent social network, bringing its co-founders into its Meta Superintelligence Labs.
- Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B
Capital One acquires fintech Brex for $5.15 billion, a significant discount from its $12.3 billion peak valuation in 2022.
- Exclusive | Capital One Strikes $5.15 Billion Deal for Fintech Brex - WSJ
Capital One will acquire fintech Brex for $5.15 billion in cash and stock to gain its corporate credit-card and expense-management technology.
Takes
Congrats to the Orchid team! This is the second acquisition of a Loops customer by Figma.
@frantzfries
tibo talking about the pain of an earnout is *real*. it was a huge reason i sold baremetrics for "just" $4 million. the fact that i refused to entertain any earnouts or contractual obligations after close immediately killed nearly every offer. i'd sold businesses before and knew that once i was "done" (i.e. willing to sell), that it was over. that every day i was still obligated to work on it would be torture. after spending *decades* being self-employed, working a job because i was contractually required to would kill my soul.
@Shpigford
Anthropic buying Bun is a beautiful act of corporate patronage. There's no compelling technical or strategic argument, but I fully support saving a great runtime from the indignities of trying to monetize open source infrastructure on a VC timeline 🎉 https://t.co/c6OCzGnuSl
@dhh