In a down year for corporate tech M&A, few noteworthy deals were completed

It is that time of year When We look back has THE years the biggest technology Mergers and Acquisitions offers. Typically by This time, THE usual greedy suspects as Microsoft, Selling power, Adobe, SAP Oracle And Cisco to have taken has less A little big oscillations. But This year, only Cisco took A big to bite, Ultimately announcing 11 total offers.

SAP do A couple smaller offers, but Microsoft, Selling power, Adobe And Oracle Above all stayed on THE on the sidelines This year. THE $61 billion Broadcom-VMware agreement announcement In Can 2022 Finally farm last month, And Adobe And Figma agreed has END their $20 billion agreement This month, which has has been blocked In regulatory limbo Since he was announcement In September 2022.

It is not OUR imagination that there are less offers Since THE the biggest players. CB Knowledge reported zero offers In T3 This year Since Big Technology. Compare that with 2019, When there were ten such offers In T3, Or with 2020, When there were eight.

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Maybe THE high cost of loan put A shock absorber on THE offers We saw In 2023. Long disappeared are THE days of 2020 When THE high offers totalized $165 billion. This year he was just $67.7 billion, THE the lowest total We have seen Since 2019 all the time weak of $40 billion, THE second year We compiled these high agreement lists.

It is value noting that A GOOD number of THE offers This year implied private equity companies either purchase companies Or sale them disabled has A Good profit.

Maybe THE smaller offers involving AI mattered more, as Atlassian purchase Loom For $975 million; Selling power acquire Airkit.ai For A not revealed Rising, A of only two little acquisitions This year; Or Snowflake catch AI research business Neeva, Also For A not revealed amount.

Regardless, here is What THE high ten business offers look at as This year Since the cheapest has most expensive: