Apollo Is Selling Kelvion to SLB for Double, Seven Months On
Apollo completed its Kelvion purchase in January at around €2bn. SLB is paying about $4.1bn enterprise value — and the deal closes in 2027.
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Apollo completed its Kelvion purchase in January at around €2bn. SLB is paying about $4.1bn enterprise value — and the deal closes in 2027.
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Neither company has confirmed anything. The price went down, not up, and the reporting says the deal could still fall apart.
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Roughly 80% of the number in the coverage is a performance earnout tied to revenue in 2027, 2028 and 2029 — revenue the release never discloses.
6d ago

A majority stake bought from four existing shareholders, at an undisclosed price — reported almost everywhere as an investment round.
Aug 19, 2026

Enterprise inference spend has grown messy enough to need its own accounting layer — and consolidators are paying roughly five times invested capital to own it.
Aug 17, 2026

The price is more than five times a valuation set 13 weeks earlier — and every figure in the story is an unconfirmed one.
Aug 17, 2026

The price has moved from about $6bn to roughly $7bn in three days, and nothing is signed — the parties are still exchanging drafts.
Aug 16, 2026

The 14 August event is the closing, not the agreement. No cash moved — 389,289,254 Class A shares did, at a value fixed by a seven-day average.
Aug 16, 2026

The largest pure-play deal in the category so far, and an admission from a classic APM vendor that watching models is not a feature it can build in.
Aug 14, 2026

Wisk Aero, Insitu and SkyGrid go to Archer; Boeing gets stock equal to 19.75% of Archer's pre-close share count. No cash price was disclosed.
Aug 12, 2026

Nscale is acquiring Anyscale, folding the orchestration layer into its own cloud. The price everyone is printing was never disclosed by either party.
Jul 31, 2026

Cyera says non-human identities inside Fortune 500 companies grew nearly 500% in six months. Its answer is to buy Oasis Security — though nothing is binding yet.
Jul 29, 2026

OpenRouter is a switchboard: one API onto hundreds of models from OpenAI, Anthropic and the open-weight labs. Stripe wants to own the meter that sits between developers and every model they call.
Jul 24, 2026

The AI precision-oncology platform is folding tumor-informed molecular residual disease testing into its stack, chasing a US market it sizes at more than $20 billion.
Jul 21, 2026

The all-cash deal — about 18 times Cognite's 2025 revenue — folds the Norwegian data-and-AI platform into AVEVA, as automation giants race to own the data layer that industrial AI agents run on.
Jul 7, 2026
