Samrhitha Arunasalam / Reuters: EngageSmart says Vista Equity Partners plans to take the payments software vendor private for ~$4B, or $23 per share; EngageSmart raised $378M in its 2021 IPO  —  Payments software vendor EngageSmart (ESMT.N) said on Monday it would be taken private by Vista Equity Partners for about $4 billion … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hayden Field / CNBC: Databricks plans to acquire enterprise data firm Arcion, which raised $18M+, for $100M; Databricks raised $500M last month and bought MosaicML for $1.3B in June  —  – Databricks agreed to acquire Arcion, an enterprise data company, for $100 million on Monday, including incentives … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Patrick Sykes / Bloomberg: Uber plans to let users in Turkey’s touristic Cappadocia region buy a €150 air balloon ride; ~10% of Turkey’s 44.6M visitors in 2022 stayed in the region  —  – New service follows Tuk-Tuks in India and boats in Greece  — Unesco-listed Cappadocia is one of Turkey’s top attractions Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: Dutch media reports that a former ASML employee accused of stealing data went to work for Huawei in China in 2022; it’s unclear if they still work for Huawei  —  – ASML accused the former employee of stealing technical data  — US seeks to prevent China from accessing some chip tech Lees verder op Tech Meme