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Trade-press report on Baldwin's preliminary Q3 figures.

Italian business daily report on the redundancy procedure.

Definitive agreement at approximately $7.7 billion enterprise value: about $4.6 billion equity purchase price and $3.1 billion net debt. Expected close Q1 2027.

Reports the Sequence–DFO agreement.

Announces the Baldwin agreement and welcomes DFO and Affinity Partners as Sequence partners. An author comment points to engineering and deployment hiring.

Explains refounding scaled service businesses with engineers, operators, patient ownership, and Atlas. Reports BankSouth loan-stage and turnaround improvements.

Announces a $35 million Series B led by The General Partnership and Allen Shim joining as president/CFO. Describes a permanent holdco with embedded technologists.

Links earlier venture-buyout and growth-buyout terminology to current roll-up activity and presents AGI as a newer example.

Announced May 4, 2026. Long Lake Management agreed to acquire American Express Global Business Travel in an all-cash take-private valued at approximately $6.3 billion, with support from General Catalyst and Alpha Wave; Koch Equity Development was also reported in the syndicate. Shareholders receive $9.50 per share, a 60.2 percent premium to the May 1 closing price. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2026, subject to customary conditions and regulatory clearances. American Express is selling its roughly 30 percent stake for $1.5 billion and expects to record a pre-tax gain of about $975 million; its brand license and other commercial agreements with Amex GBT remain in place. Paul Abbott is chief executive of Amex GBT, which operates in more than 140 countries. Ken Chenault, General Catalyst chairman and former American Express chief executive, commented on the deal. Long Lake was founded in 2023.

Reports an agreed $6.3 billion cash acquisition at $9.50 per share, with closing expected in H2 2026.

Accessible opening reports expansion across major investors and distinguishes vertical roll-ups from multi-industry holding companies.

Proposes distinctions among conventional PE, venture-backed roll-ups, and AI-native holdcos; supplies a broad discovery map.

A Luma event listing, not an article. Poker Night hosted by Sequence Holdings at 300 Vesey Street, suite 1230, New York, on Wednesday, October 15, 2025 at 7:15pm, with guests asked to meet in the lobby. The listing describes an open, casual evening of cards, wine and cocktails, and catered food, states that non-players are welcome and will be taught the basics, and carries no buy-in, stakes, agenda, or speaker information. Registration was required. The page is now marked as a past event. The same listing was also posted on Partiful.

Argues for owning distribution while acknowledging the difficulty of combining software development with acquisition integration.

Links better document processing, legacy-system automation, and conversational agents to owning and executing service workflows. Discusses Sequence and Arcos.

Announced June 18, 2025, from Singapore. Multiplier Holdings publicly launched with $27.5 million in seed and Series A funding. The Series A was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Ribbit Capital, which had led the seed, plus EDBI and SV Angel participating. The model is to acquire specialized professional services firms — tax and accounting practices in particular — and integrate custom AI automation, using an in-house library of AI and workflow components configured to each acquired firm. Multiplier states that portfolio firms keep operational independence while incentives are aligned across Multiplier leadership, firm leaders, and staff, producing what it calls hybrid technology firms. The release cited a global professional services market above $6 trillion and a forecast 11.2 percent CAGR in tax advisory services. Noah Pepper is chief executive. Multiplier subsequently raised a $35 million Series B led by The General Partnership in August 2026, with Ribbit and Lightspeed participating, and hired former Slack CFO Allen Shim as president and CFO.