- notes
- {"status": "Acquired (acqui-hire)", "acquirer": "Google", "deal_type": "Acqui-hire; terms undisclosed", "transaction_date": "2015-03", "transaction_date_notes": "Sources say purchased in March 2015; Crunchbase lists announced date 2015-03-01.", "public_report_date": "2016-08-18", "deal_terms_disclosed": false, "post_deal_outcome": {"employees_joined_google": 13, "employees_joined_google_breakdown": "Co-founders Collin Jackson and Ian Fischer plus 11 engineering team members joined Google in May 2015.", "employees_laid_off": 52, "remaining_operations": "Skeleton crew led by Jim Terry as CEO to support existing enterprise clients; platform largely unavailable for new clients after acquisition.", "source_urls": ["https://venturebeat.com/business/google-secretly-acqui-hired-mobile-app-development-startup-apportable/", "https://thetechportal.com/2016/08/20/google-acqui-hired-apportable-last-year/", "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/apportable"]}, "current_company_status": "Inactive as independent startup; absorbed into Google via acqui-hire; products largely discontinued.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/apportable", "https://venturebeat.com/business/google-secretly-acqui-hired-mobile-app-development-startup-apportable/", "https://thetechportal.com/2016/08/20/google-acqui-hired-apportable-last-year/"]}
- source urls
- ["https://thetechportal.com/2016/08/20/google-acqui-hired-apportable-last-year/", "https://venturebeat.com/business/google-secretly-acqui-hired-mobile-app-development-startup-apportable/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/apportable"]