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The Crowdfunding Formula announced completion of acquisition of Gadget Flow, one of the largest product discovery platforms worldwide.

"TCF's deep expertise in crowdfunding and e-commerce, combined with Gadget Flow's access to millions of innovation lovers will enable us to provide exceptional value and convenience to our customers." says Narek Vardanyan, Co-founder and CEO of TCF.

TCF is a leading marketing agency that helps creators validate and successfully launch their ideas through crowdfunding and ecommerce platforms. It has successfully transformed over 1,000 ideas into reality, raising a cumulative total of $100M in the process.

Gadget Flow is one of the leading product discovery platforms for staying up-to-date with the latest tech, gear, and crowdfunding releases. It features 30,000 products across more than 250 categories. Since its launch in 2011, It has been twice included among the top 360 Entrepreneurial companies in the United States.

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#tcf #thecrowdfundingformula #acquisition #gadgetflow #prelaunch #successstory #callforcommunitysupport
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Intelinair announced its acquisition of Aker Technologies, Inc..

Aker Technologies is a leading digital agriculture company based in Effingham, Illinois.

The acquisition of Aker Technologies allows Intelinair to continue to expand in the ag market with additional drone-based digital agronomy tools and complements Intelinair’s portfolio of providing high-resolution imagery and data analytics to manage every field all season long.

Intelinair elevates agronomic management decisions by providing insights all season long to farmers and ag retailers through its easy-to-use interactive platform AGMRI. High resolution aerial imagery from fixed wing airplane, satellite, or drones provides whole field views increasing efficiency by prioritizing fields and offering assurance that fields are monitored and reviewed for timely decision making and identifying sustainability opportunities.

Intelinair was co-founded by serial entrepreneur Al Eisaian and a prominent scientist Naira Hovakimyan in 2015.

Congrats to Intelinair team with this strategic move forward!

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#intelinair #acquisition #akertechnologies #successstory
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A good week should be started with a good news!

DraperX, led by Co-Founder & CEO Hambardzum Kaghketsyan announced acquisition of Draper Round Table.

DraperX is a syndication platform, which offers family offices the ability to invest directly in highly vetted deals alongside Draper and 150+ select funds.

Draper Round Table is a web3 deals syndication platform backed by Silicon Valley investor and Bitcoin whale, Tim Draper, along with NBA All-Star Baron Davis.

Ham jan, congrats to you, DraperX and Draper Round Table teams on this achievement!

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#draperx #draperroundtable #acquisition #successstory
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πŸš€ Armenian-founded Trag joins Aikido!

Trag is an LLM-native code review engine that thinks like a senior engineer β€” understanding repo-wide context, logic, readability, and performance (not just regex rules).

Now as part of Aikido, the team has launched Aikido Code Quality:

- Turn β€œtribal knowledge” into enforceable rules
- Enforce team conventions in plain language
- Catch subtle risks legacy scanners miss
- Deliver feedback developers actually use

Congrats to Khachatur Virabyan and entire Trag team, early supporters and investors on this milestone!

πŸ”— Learn more about the future of AI Code review with Willem Delbare & Khachatur Virabyan. RSVP here: https://lu.ma/aikidoxtrag


#Trag #SuccessStory #Acquisition #Aikido

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Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. for $82.7 Billion 🀯

Source: Netflix

Netflix has announced an agreement to acquire Warner Bros., including its film and TV studios, HBO, and HBO Max.

The deal values Warner Bros. Discovery at $72B equity value (total $82.7B enterprise value) and combines Netflix’s global streaming platform with Warner Bros.’ library and franchises such as The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, DC Universe, and others.

Read more here

#Netflix #Acquisition

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IBM is buying data infrastructure company Confluent for $11 billion.

Source: TechCruch

Confluent offers a platform that helps enterprises manage streams of data in real time and deploy AI products, which require significant back-and-forth processing of data for inferencing.

IBM said Confluent will complement its existing data and automation products, as well as improve upon its existing offerings across AI, automation, data, and consulting.

Read more in the TechCrunch article here:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/08/ibm-to-acquire-confluent-for-11b-as-it-seeks-to-bolster-its-data-offerings/

#IBM #Acquisition

P.S. In just several days two tech giants (Netflix, IBM) announced acquisitions of combined value of around $94BLN 🀯

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