M&A is a growth lever for startups, especially in a competitive market. Stripe bought Paystack. Databricks acquired Tecton, Neon, BladeBridge, Tabular, Arcion, MosaicML. Wiz bought Dazz, Gem Security, and Raftt. ServiceNow acquired Moveworks. Snowflake purchased Crunchy Data. CoreWeave agreed to buy Weights & Biases. Ripple acquired GTreasury. AlphaSense purchased Tegus. etc. etc.