How we research acquirers
298 acquirers and 5,825 deals, each with a link to where we found it.
Where the data comes from
- Each acquirer's own website: portfolio and brand pages, press releases, "sell to us" pages, team and contact pages.
- Press coverage, deal announcements and public filings found through web search.
- For the largest technology companies, the acquisition tables maintained on Wikipedia, credited on each deal and used under CC BY-SA 4.0. We take dates, names and prices, not text.
- Interviews, podcasts and founder posts for how a buyer runs a deal and what happens after it closes.
How it's checked
- Every deal and contact keeps the URL it came from. If we can't source a fact, we leave it blank rather than estimate it.
- An acquirer's website only counts as theirs if its homepage names them and describes buying or running software.
- Contacts are limited to channels the company or person published for this purpose. We never guess email addresses.
- Deals are assigned to one of 29 software categories so you can see who buys in your market.
- Research is done with AI tools under our direction and spot-checked; a profile is published once it has at least one sourced deal.
What it doesn't cover
We list the deals we can source. Private buyers often don't announce acquisitions, and older deals are harder to find, so a buyer's real history may be longer than its profile. Prices appear only when they were disclosed.
How often it's refreshed
Profiles are re-researched on a rolling basis, and new deals are added as acquirers announce them. Each contact shows the date we last confirmed it.
Corrections
Run an acquirer, or spotted a mistake? Email corrections@whowouldbuy.com with the profile and the fix, plus a source if you have one. We update profiles quickly when a correction is sourced.