Insights

Enterprise software-focused private equity firm Thoma Bravo have acquired a majority stake of Mailgun, the Y Combinator graduate that provides email infrastructure products to companies such as Stripe, Slack, Lyft, Iterable and GitHub.

The growth of cloud-based applications has boosted innovation but has also created new security challenges.

Australian enterprise software giant Atlassian has consistently pursued growth through acquisition – boosting revenue by bringing new companies into the fold with related products and complementary skill sets.

After a competitive bidding war thought to include rival chipmakers Intel and Xilinx, Nvidia have agreed to purchase Mellanox with a cash offer for all shares at a 14 percent premium.

Identity management offered as a cloud-based service (IDaaS) is a rapidly growing sector of enterprise software.

Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are both lauded as fundamental parts of the digital future, and as they develop, the crossover of these technologies is prompting a wave of acquisitions.