There were 405 acquisitions of New York companies in 2019, down from the 409 in 2018. Today, I shine a spotlight on 22 of these notable transactions involving NYC startups that were acquired during 2019. I have included the acquiree, the acquirer, transaction amount (when available), time from founding to exit (the average for this group was 6.14 years), as well as investors and total funding raised by the target.
#NYCtech Week in Review: 3/24/19-3/30/19
NYC Tech News for the week ending 3/30 including the NYC startup fundings, NYC startup exits, and NYC Tech events including news for The Outline, Dynamic Yield, Casper, and much more…
Bustle Digital Group Acquires The Outline in its Latest String of Acquisitions
Bryan Goldberg and Bustle have scooped up The Outline, a digital news publication launched in 2016 by Joshua Topolosky. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed but all signs point to this being an acquihire as The Outline shed the majority of its staff in the Fall of 2018.