Examples of Exits for Entrepreneurs and VC Investors

Patience has paid off for the founders of GitHub Inc. after Microsoft Corp. agreed to pay $7.5 billion for the coding platform. (2018)

Wall Street Journal, 2017: “Musical.ly Inc., the maker of a lip-syncing app popular among teens and tweens, has agreed to be acquired by Chinese n... (2017)

Wix.com has made another acquisition to build out the tools that it provides to users to build and administer websites: it has acquired DeviantArt,... (2018)

Six years ago we invested an “eye-popping” $100 million into GitHub. This was not only a Series A investment and the first institutional money ever... (2018)

Strategic factors are often more important than purely financial ones. (2018)

Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor While tech waffles on going public, biotech IPOs boom Shoe startups aren’t dragging their... (2018)

MIRROR brings a subscription revenue stream and plenty of cross-sell opportunities between the two fitness brands. (2020)

A week ago rumors were flying that Adobe would be buying Marketo, and lo and behold it announced today that it was acquiring the marketing automati... (2018)

The fintech wars continue to heat up with another major exit in the space. Consumer financial services platform SoFi announced today that it is acq... (2020)

The week is kicking off with a major piece of M&A in the world of financial technology startups. Today Intuit — the accounting, tax filing and fina... (2020)

Visa announced today that it is buying financial services API startup Plaid for $5.3 billion.  Plaid develops financial services APIs. It is akin t... (2020)

PayPal announced today it has agreed to acquire Honey Science Corporation, the makers of a deal-finding browser add-on and mobile application, for ... (2019)

Y Combinator Published on Nov 14, 2018 Brian Donohue - is President of Instapaper and a Product Engineering Manager at Pinterest - ... (2018)

Immigrants Mar Hershenson and Pejman Nozad’s venture fund, Pear VC, was once doubted. Then it turned $1.9 million in DoorDash into a stake worth mo... (2020)