Merger

Vista Equity Partners and Blackstone offer to buy Smartsheet for $8.4B in cash

Enterprise /

Vista Equity Partners and Blackstone have agreed to acquire Smartsheet, the software-as-a-service (SaaS) workplace collaboration platform, for $8.4 billion in cash. The private equity firms say that the deal values publicly traded Smartsheet’s shares at a 41% premium over its 90-day average closing share price. Should regulators and shareholders approve it, shareholders would receive approximately […]

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African B2B e-commerce startups Wasoko and MaxAB complete merger: Interview with co-CEO Daniel Yu

Commerce /

Two of Africa’s largest B2B e-commerce platforms, Wasoko and MaxAB, have finally completed the continent’s much-talked-about merger, TechCrunch has learned. The all-stock transaction, both companies say, marks “an evolution from B2B e-commerce companies to a multi-vertical ecosystem for Africa’s $600 billion informal retail sector.” Talks of a merger between Kenya-based Wasoko and Egypt-based MaxAB began

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