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Salesforce acquisition of Braze

Overview

Salesforce has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the customer engagement platform Braze for approximately $5.66 billion in enterprise value. Under the terms of the deal, Braze Class A common stock holders will receive $47.50 per share in cash, which represents a premium of roughly 58% over the stock’s previous closing price.

The acquisition is intended to strengthen Salesforce’s Marketing Cloud and Agentforce platforms by integrating Braze’s real-time, AI-driven decisioning and event-streaming architecture. This integration aims to allow brands to personalize communications across mobile apps, websites, email, SMS, and WhatsApp by acting on customer signals as they emerge.

Industry analysts suggest the move is designed to bridge gaps in Salesforce’s legacy Marketing Cloud with more agile, modern capabilities for mobile messaging. By incorporating Braze’s real-time processing, Salesforce intends to reduce the need for enterprises to maintain complex engineering pipelines to connect customer data with engagement systems. The transaction is expected to close during Salesforce’s fiscal year 2028, subject to regulatory clearances and Braze shareholder approval.

Entities

Braze · Salesforce · Customer 360 · Agentforce · Marketing Cloud

Timeline

  1. [BUSINESS] 3 sources
    Salesforce to acquire Braze for $5.66 billion

    Salesforce is acquiring customer engagement platform Braze for $5.66 billion and plans to introduce a registration system for external AI agents by late 2026.

  2. [BUSINESS] 4 sources
    Salesforce to acquire Braze for $5.66 billion

    Salesforce will acquire customer engagement platform Braze for $5.66 billion to enhance its real-time data and AI capabilities.

  3. [BUSINESS] 16 sources
    Salesforce to acquire Braze for $5.66 billion

    Salesforce will acquire customer engagement platform Braze for $5.66 billion to expand its AI-powered marketing and real-time customer engagement capabilities.

Sources

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