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Salesforce announced a definitive agreement to acquire Braze for approximately $5.66 billion on October 20. The pending deal aims to combine real-time customer engagement with Salesforce's Marketing Cloud and Agentforce. While the merger promises a unified stack, attendees at Braze's late-September conference expressed concerns about vendor lock-in and data portability.
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Salesforce agrees to acquire AI-powered marketing platform Braze for nearly $5.7B in enterprise value, paying $47.50 per share, set to close from February 2027 (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg)

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