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2023: $3.9 billion purchase of One Medical
On February 22, 2023, Amazon announced it was closing a deal to buy One Medical. This acquisition cost the American Internet giant $3.9 billion. Read more here.
2022: Buying a cloud developer to manage Veeqo online stores
On March 7, 2022, Amazon announced the acquisition of Veeqo. The company did not disclose the financial and other terms of the transaction. Read more here.
2021
Buying a satellite internet development team from Facebook
In mid-July 2021, it became known that Amazon bought a team of satellite Internet developers from Facebook. A group of more than a dozen Los Angeles scientists and engineers joined Amazon in April. The acquisition ended Facebook's plans to develop satellite internet and at the same time strengthened Amazon's position in this direction. Read more here.
Buying a podcast monetization platform Art19
At the end of June 2021, Amazon announced the purchase of a large platform for hosting and monetizing Art19 podcasts. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Read more here.
Buying the secure messaging app Wickr
In late June 2021, Amazon acquired the secure messaging app Wickr, launched in 2012. The value of the transaction was not disclosed. Read more here.
Purchase of Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $8.45 billion
On May 27, 2021, Amazon officially announced the purchase of Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) for $8.45 billion. Thanks to this deal, the Internet retailer and the largest cloud provider intends to strengthen the direction of television content. Read more here.
Investing in Data Analytics Software Developer Databricks
In early February 2021, Databricks raised $1 billion from Amazon Web Services, CapitalG (a private company managed by Alphabet), Salesforce Ventures, Google and Microsoft, which had previously invested in Databricks. The software developer's estimate rose to $28 billion. Read more here.
2020
Buying podcast maker Wondery
At the end of December 2020, Amazon announced the purchase of Wondery and plans to join the podcast publisher to its music service Amazon Music. The company did not disclose the financial terms of the transaction. Read more here.
Investing in a platform developer to run applications in Kubernetes Weaveworks containers
On December 8, 2020, Weaveworks announced the attraction of $36.65 million in investments as part of the Series C financing round, in which the fund of the main shareholder of AFK Sistema Vladimir YevtushenkovRedline Capital took part. Read more here.
Amazon invests in startups, steals their ideas and creates competitors
At the end of July 2020, it became known about the manifestation of unfair competition from Amazon. The internet retailer invested in startups, and then stole their ideas and launched competing projects.
Journalists from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) conducted an investigation, which revealed the following scheme: Amazon management meets with representatives of startups allegedly to discuss the purchase and learns details about the technologies of the novice developer. After such "negotiations," the startup remains without unique ideas and investments.
In some cases, Amazon invests in the company, gains access to technology and uses it in its products competing with the startup's developments.
Daniela Braga, founder of DefinedCrowd technology company, shared her story with the publication. She raised investment from venture capital fund Amazon in 2016. As a result, the company gained access to all data, and in April 2020 released a similar product in the field of artificial intelligence.
Representatives of startups Nucleus, LivingSocial, Vocalife, Ubi, Novel Effect and Vivint Smart Home also told the newspaper about such actions of Amazon.
In 2010, Amazon invested in the daily deal site LivingSocial, gaining 30% on the project and a seat on the startup's board of directors. Former LivingSocial executives said Amazon began requesting data - a list of customers, a list of merchants, sales data. After that, the management of LivingSocial learned that Amazon directly contacts customers and offers them better conditions. Amazon also began hiring LivingSocial employees. Groupon ended up buying LivingSocial, including Amazon's stake, in 2016.
Jeremy Levine, a partner at venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners, compared Amazon to a wolf in sheep's clothing and called the methods of their work Machiavellian (the main principle is that the end justifies the means).[1]
Investing in electric car maker Rivian in a $2.5 billion round
In mid-July 2020, Rivian, known for creating electric vehicles that charge each other, raised $2.5 billion in investments. At the same time, the market value of the automaker is not called. Read more here.
Yevtushenkov: Amazon founder Bezos wanted to invest in Ozon
On June 27, 2020, the main owner AFK Sistema Vladimir Yevtushenkov told reporters about the high interest in the online store (Ozon the total share of the holding in it is 42.999%) from foreign investors, including. Amazon More. here
Purchase of self-driving car developer Zoox
At the end of May 2020, it became known about the sale of Zoox to Amazon. Read more here.
2019
Purchase of Health Navigator
In late October 2019, Amazon acquired Health Navigator, a startup that will be part of Amazon Care's employee health care pilot program. Amazon has not disclosed the financial details of the deal. Read more here.
E8 Storage Data Center DSS Developer Purchase
At the end of July 2019, Amazon officially announced the acquisition of data center DSS developer E8 Storage in order to expand its data center storage systems. Read more here.
Purchase of warehouse robot developer Canvas Technology
On April 10, 2019, it became known about the sale of warehouse robot developer Canvas Technology to Internet giant Amazon. Read more here.
Buying a router developer eero
On February 11, 2019, the sale of the router developer eero to the Internet giant Amazon was officially announced. As a result of the deal, the Grishin Robotics Foundation withdrew from the startup. Read more here.
Investing in electric car developer Rivian in a $700 million round
In mid-February 2019, Rivian announced a funding round, as a result of which the company raised $700 million. She invested the most, Amazon but the exact size of the investment was not disclosed. The capitalization estimate is also unknown. startup More. here
TSO Logic Cloud Optimization Software Developer Purchase
In January 2019, Amazon announced the acquisition of cloud optimization software developer TSO Logic. The deal, the cost of which was not disclosed, was issued by the cloud division of the Internet retailer - Amazon Web Services (AWS). Read more here.
Buying CloudEnure Disaster Recovery Software Developer
On January 10, 2019, it officially became known that Amazon it had bought a developer ON for disaster recovery. CloudEndure The transaction value, according to some reports, amounted to $200-250 million. More. here
2018
Purchase of PillPack, the largest online pharmacy in the United States
On June 28, 2018, Amazon announced the purchase of PillPack. As a result of the takeover, the American Internet giant becomes a direct competitor to pharmacy chains, drug distributors and companies managing drug benefits. Read more here.
Buying a smart doorbell developer for $1 billion
On February 27, 2018, Amazon announced the purchase of smart doorbell developer Ring. Although the company did not name the value of the deal, Reuters and The Wall Street Journal are aware of it - $1 billion. Read more here.
Buying Blink
On February 12, 2018, Reuters reported that Amazon paid $90 million for the acquisition of camera developer Blink, which was announced at the end of 2018. More on the deal here.
Purchase of Sqrrl - supplier of cyber incident investigation tools
In late January 2018, it was reported that Amazon Web Services, a division of Amazon, bought out Sqrrl Data Inc., a company specializing in the development of advanced threat detection systems for large corporations. The amount of the transaction with AWS was not disclosed, but, according to some reports, it exceeds $40 million.[2] Read more here.
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