Alphabet acquired Looker for $2.6 billion, a transaction completed in February 2020, structured as all cash.
Looker operates in Cloud / Analytics, is based in Santa Cruz, California, USA. Looker was a unified business-intelligence and embedded-analytics platform that let organizations explore, analyze and act on data, with strong multi-cloud support and connectors to sources like Salesforce, Marketo and Zendesk. Google acquired it to broaden Google Cloud's analytics offering and give customers a complete data-analytics stack from ingestion to visualization. Looker joined Google Cloud while retaining its ability to work across multiple cloud environments.
Google Cloud acquired Looker to offer a comprehensive analytics platform spanning business intelligence, data applications and embedded analytics, while preserving multi-cloud flexibility for customers.
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Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.