Deal Timeline

Plotted by close date where disclosed, otherwise announcement. Select any marker to jump to the deal entry.

The Acquisition Playbook.

Three patterns run through Freshworks's acquisitions — what it looks for, how it pays, and how it folds in what it buys.

01
Acquisition criteria
Buy capability, not scale.
Freshworks' one disclosed acquisition - Device42 - was a targeted capability buy rather than a scale play. The company paid $230 million for an IT asset management firm whose asset discovery and application dependency mapping plugged directly into Freshservice, Freshworks' ITSM product.
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02
Capital deployment
Move upmarket against ServiceNow.
Management framed the Device42 thesis around enterprise win rates: "specifically as we're moving up enterprise and we're competing more and more with ServiceNow." The acquisition was a deliberate step to strengthen the ITSM/ITAM bundle as Freshworks chases larger mid-market and enterprise accounts.
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03
Integration approach
Cross-sell into the installed base.
The deal rationale centered on cross-selling Device42 ITAM into the existing Freshservice customer base, even as Freshworks openly expected churn in Device42's standalone installed base, which had run mainly through a partner competitor. The value sits in the combined platform, not the acquired revenue.
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The Full Deal Book

4 acquisitions — each with the deal value, financing structure, target revenue, and executive commentary where disclosed.

01 Device42 (D42 Parent, Inc.) · United States $230M
Announced Apr 2024 Closed Jun 2024 Combination - cash plus equity rollover and assumed/converted stock options
IT asset management (ITAM)asset discoveryapplication dependency mappingIT infrastructure inventoryhybrid/cloud asset visibility

Device42 is an IT asset management company that provides comprehensive, continuously up-to-date views of assets across an organization's entire IT infrastructure - from mainframe to cloud. Freshworks acquired all outstanding equity of D42 Parent, Inc. through its wholly-owned subsidiary Doppler Merger Sub, Inc. The combination lets Freshworks offer a more comprehensive IT solution, pairing Device42's asset discovery and application dependency mapping with Freshworks' Freshservice ITSM platform. $230 million aggregate purchase price (announced; $215M cash + $15M equity rollover, plus up to $20M in retention RSUs). Total purchase consideration recorded at $238.1 million per the FY2024 10-K business combination note.

Why it was attractive
  • Device42's asset discovery and application dependency mapping fill a capability gap in Freshworks' Freshservice ITSM suite
  • supporting Freshworks' move upmarket into mid-market and enterprise accounts where it competes with ServiceNow
This move reinforces our position in the ITSM market and shows our commitment to delivering value to IT teams worldwide.Dennis Woodside — Chief Executive Officer, Freshworks Inc.
This acquisition represents a significant step forward in delivering more comprehensive IT solutions that empowers organizations to optimize IT operations.Raj Jalan — Chief Executive Officer & Founder, Device42
Post-close · earnings-call commentary

Freshworks CEO, earnings call: "We did do the Device42 acquisition. Didn't have a huge revenue installed base, and we actually were pretty open that we expect that installed base to have disruption to it because it was mainly through a partner competitor, and so we expect a lot of that to go away. The thesis of that buy was on cross-selling into our existing Freshservice installed base, but also higher win rates, specifically as we're moving up enterprise and we're competing more and more with ServiceNow, and so that one is playing out."

02 FireHydrant, Inc. $88.7M
Closed Jan 2026 Cash

Incident management software company providing AI-powered incident management, acquired to expand Freshworks' IT service and operations portfolio. $88.7 million in cash (including $4.3 million of cash acquired).

03 Natero, Inc. · United States Not disclosed
Announced May 2019 Closed May 2019 Acquisition

Natero is a customer-success management software company whose SaaS platform applies machine learning to help businesses reduce churn and grow customer accounts. Freshworks acquired Natero to add customer-success capabilities to its unified customer-engagement platform.

04 Zarget · India Not disclosed
Announced Aug 2017 Closed Aug 2017 Acquisition

Zarget is a marketing-software startup offering a suite of Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) tools, including A/B testing, heatmaps and funnel analysis, that help marketers understand and improve how users interact with their websites. The deal marked Freshworks' entry into marketing software.

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