Compile list of recent M&A transactions

Overview

Investors and analysts use Perplexity to stay on top of fast-moving M&A activity, quickly surface recent transactions, and turn disparate headlines into clear market takeaways. Perplexity helps consolidate public deal data into structured views and trend analysis that can feed pipelines, strategy decks, and IC memos.

Your Search

Ask Perplexity for a targeted view of recent software M&A and let it search across news, bank reports, and M&A trackers in one step. For example:

Compile a list of recent software M&A deals. Include a table of recent transactions and provide an analysis of recent transaction trends as summarised bullets

Perplexity's Answer

Perplexity outputs the requested list in a tabular format with clear citations that can be copied and exported to a doc, sheet, or slide.

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As requested, you also get a quick, digestible list of bullet points summarising recent trends.

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Instead of manually stitching this together from multiple news sites and PDFs, Perplexity keeps the answer focused, sourced, and ready for downstream use in IC write‑ups, market maps, or board updates.

Tip

• Add specific industries and time frames: to help focus your search, include context like “semiconductor”, “biopharma”, or “<$50M” as well as timeframes like “within the last 2 years” or “since 2020”
• Specify output format: if you need specific data in a specific format, be sure to specify that, “Include: Acquirer, Target, Date, Total Consideration, % Stock vs. Cash, Strategic Rationale” in a tabular format”