M&A in AI and Infrastructure

​Join us and AXOM for Essence VC's March Founder Workshop 🛠️💡🧰 👨‍🏫

​This will be an interactive workshop, so please come with any tactical and/or strategic questions you have around M&A strategy for AI and infrastructure startups.

​Agenda

• ​Discuss strategies for achieving a “bought not sold” M&A outcome

• ​Provide insights into the current “state of M&A”

• ​Share learnings from our experience negotiating with the acquirers in AI and infrastructure, including:

  • ​Rockset’s sale to OpenAI

  • ​OctoAI’s sale to NVIDIA

  • ​Voyage AI's sale to MongoDB

​Who is AXOM?

• ​AXOM is a new M&A advisory boutique led by a team from Qatalyst that has significant experience advising founders on sales to companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Cisco, Oracle, IBM, and many others

• ​Since launching 18 months year ago, AXOM has advised founders on sales to OpenAI, NVIDIA, and MongoDB + been in active dialogue with most of the other large acquirers in AI and infrastructure

• ​The presenters: Alan Bressers and Sam Bronstein lead AXOM’s coverage of AI and infrastructure