List of acquisitions by Adobe

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Adobe Inc. is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California. In 1982, John Warnock and Charles Geschke left Xerox PARC and established Adobe to develop and sell the PostScript page description language.[1] Apple Computer licensed PostScript in 1985 for use in its LaserWriter printers, which helped spark the desktop publishing revolution.[2] The company has acquired 25 companies, purchased stakes in five, and divested six, most of which were software companies. Of the companies that Adobe has acquired, 18 were based in the United States. Adobe has not released the financial details for most of these mergers and acquisitions.

Adobe's first acquisition was Emerald City Software in March 1990. In August 1994, the company acquired Aldus Corporation, a Seattle-based software company credited with creating the desktop publishing industry with its PageMaker software.[3] The company's products were integrated into Adobe's product line later in the year, and re-branded as Adobe PageMaker and Adobe After Effects;[4] Aldus also owned the TIFF file format, transferring ownership to Adobe.[5] In October 1995, Adobe acquired the desktop publishing software company Frame Technology for US$566 million, and re-branded its FrameMaker software to Adobe FrameMaker.[6] Adobe acquired GoLive Systems in January 1999 and obtained its CyberStudio HTML editor software, releasing it as Adobe GoLive.[7] In May 2003, Adobe acquired Syntrillium Software and its digital audio editor software Cool Edit Pro, and merged it into its product line, re-releasing it as Adobe Audition.[8]

In the 1990s, Adobe purchased a minority stake in four companies, and it purchased a stake in one company in the 2000s. Adobe has also divested six companies, in which parts of the company are sold to another company. All of its divestments were made in the 1990s, with its most recent divestment made in August 1999 when it sold Macromedia Pathware to Lotus Software.

Acquisitions

Number Company Country Acquired on Acquired for (USD) References
1 Emerald City Software  United States March 19, 1990 — [9]
2 BluePoint Technologies  United States June 20, 1990 — [10]
3 LaserTools-Language Tech[note 1]  United States June 1, 1992 — [11]
4 OCR Systems  United States June 29, 1992 — [12]
5 Aldus Corporation  United States August 31, 1994 $437,676,000 [13]
6 LaserTools  United States September 9, 1994 — [14]
7 Photoshop  United States 1995 — [15]
8 Frame Technology  United States October 30, 1995 $566,567,000 [16]
9 Ares Software  United States May 20, 1996 — [17]
10 Sandcastle  United States March 14, 1997 $3,500,000 [18]
11 HyWay Ferranti  United States September 5, 1997 — [19]
12 DigiDox  United States September 16, 1997 — [20]
13 GoLive Systems  United States January 4, 1999 — [21]
14 Fotiva  United States December 5, 2001 — [22]
15 Accelio[note 2]  Canada April 15, 2002 $72,000,000 [23]
16 Syntrillium Software  United States May 2003 — [24]
17 Yellow Dragon Software-Tech[note 3]  United States November 10, 2003 — [25]
18 Q-Link Technologies, Inc.  United States May 3, 2004 — [26]
19 OKYZ  France December 7, 2004 — [27]
20 Macromedia  United States December 3, 2005 $3,573,000,000 [28]
21 Navisware  United States December 16, 2005 — [29]
22 Trade and Technologies France  France April 21, 2006 — [30]
23 Pixmantec  Denmark June 26, 2006 — [31]
24 InterAKT  Romania September 5, 2006 — [32]
25 Serious Magic Inc.  United States October 19, 2006 — [33]
26 Scene7  United States May 31, 2007 — [34]
27 Virtual Ubiquity  United States October 1, 2007 — [35]
28 YaWah  Denmark September 15, 2008 — [36]
29 Business Catalyst  Australia August 31, 2009 — [37]
30 Omniture  United States September 15, 2009 $1,800,000,000 [38]
31 Day Software   Switzerland July 28, 2010 $240,000,000 [39]
32 Demdex  United States January 18, 2011 — [40]
33 EchoSign  United States July 18, 2011 — [41]
34 Iridas Technology  Germany September 8, 2011 — [42]
35 Nitobi  Canada October 3, 2011 — [43]
36 Typekit  United States October 3, 2011 — [44]
37 Auditude  United States November 1, 2011 $120,000,000 [45]
38 Efficient Frontier Technology  United States November 30, 2011 — [46]
39 Behance Inc.  United States December 21, 2012 — [47]
40 Neolane  France July 23, 2013 $600,000,000 [48][49]
41 Satellite  United States July 31, 2013 —
42 Aviary  United States September 22, 2014 — [50]
43 Fotolia  United States January 28, 2015 $800,000,000 [51]
44 Mixamo  United States June 1, 2015 — [52]
45 Livefyre  United States May 10, 2016 — [53]
46 TubeMogul  United States November 10, 2016 $540,000,000 [54]
47 Sayspring  United States April 16, 2018 — [55]
48 Uru  United States April 29, 2018 — [56]
49 Magento  United States May 21, 2018 $1,680,000,000 [57]
50 Marketo  United States September 20, 2018 $4,750,000,000 [58]
51 Allegorithmic  France January 23, 2019 — [59]
52 Workfront  United States November 9, 2020 $1,500,000,000 [60]
53 Frame.io  United States October 7, 2021 $1,275,000,000 [61]
54 ContentCal  United Kingdom December 8, 2021 —
55 Abstract Notebooks  United States December 23, 2021 — [62]
56 Figma  United States September 15, 2022 $20,000,000,000 [63]

Indirect acquisitions

Adobe also owns the assets of numerous companies, through less direct means, through the mergers or acquisitions of companies later acquired by Adobe.

Stakes

Date Company Business Country Value (USD) References
September 21, 1992 Verity Computer consulting  United States — [64]
March 1, 1994 Crosswise Applications software  United States — [65]
April 19, 1995 Siebel Systems Application services provider  United States — [66]
August 8, 1995 Fractal Design Graphics software  United States $2,000,000 [67]
March 23, 2007 Skysoft Online digital music services  Republic of China $1,000,000 [68]

Divestitures

Date Acquirer Target company Target business Acquirer country Value (USD) References
November 1, 1991 Paracomp MacroMind Software  United States — [69]
March 28, 1996 — Luminous[note 4] Graphics software  United States — [70]
February 5, 1997 INSO MasterSoft Publishing software  United States $3,000,000 [71]
March 24, 1999 Creative Internet Solutions ChangeMedia Internet service provider  United States — [72]
May 20, 1999 Calian Technologies Ltd. Why Interactive Multi-media company  Canada $4,360,000 [73]
August 30, 1999 Lotus Development Macromedia Pathware Internet software  United States — [74]

Notes

  1. ↑ Acquired from LaserTools
  2. ↑ Acquired from Adobe Systems Canada
  3. ↑ Acquired from Yellow Dragon Software
  4. ↑ Adobe retained a 19.9% stake in Luminous

See also

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