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160 Enterprise Software Startups That Could Be for Sale This Year

Many enterprise software startups that raised money at steep valuations between 2020 and 2022 face diminishing options. Venture capitalists who previously sank funds into these startups have shifted much of their money toward AI. Stocks in public enterprise software companies have fallen sharply. When the startups’ backers push for cash returns, the most likely exit is a sale. To find the companies facing the most pressure to sell themselves, The Information screened for privately owned U.S....

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The key question is weather profit concentration follows the same pattern as this revenue concentration. Apple, Microsoft and Google all has declining margin cost, so scale drove profit concentration. I assume this will occur in these market, but this hasn't yet been the case (likely token price increases by OpenAI and Anthropic next year post IPO will help).
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