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Vmware acquisitions, on the record

The businesses Vmware bought and sold, as its annual reports describe them, with the cash it reported paying for acquisitions each year and every deal filing since 2016.

Deals its annual reports describe

Business	Deal	When	Value
Pivotal Software, Inc. Word for word“In December 2019, we acquired Pivotal Software, Inc., a subsidiary of Dell.” 10-K for 2021	acquisition	December 2019	—
Pivotal Word for word“VMware Tanzu includes technologies acquired as part of our Pivotal, Bitnami, Heptio and Wavefront acquisitions.” 10-K for 2021	acquisition	—	—
Bitnami Word for word“VMware Tanzu includes technologies acquired as part of our Pivotal, Bitnami, Heptio and Wavefront acquisitions.” 10-K for 2021	acquisition	—	—
Heptio Word for word“VMware Tanzu includes technologies acquired as part of our Pivotal, Bitnami, Heptio and Wavefront acquisitions.” 10-K for 2021	acquisition	—	—
Wavefront Word for word“VMware Tanzu includes technologies acquired as part of our Pivotal, Bitnami, Heptio and Wavefront acquisitions.” 10-K for 2021	acquisition	—	—
SaltStack, Inc. Word for word“The total purchase price, net of cash acquired, was $ 51 million.” 10-K for 2022	acquisition	—	$ 51 million
Datrium, Inc. Word for word“The total purchase price, net of cash acquired, was $ 137 million.” 10-K for 2022	acquisition	—	$ 137 million
Lastline, Inc. Word for word“The total purchase price, net of cash acquired, was $ 114 million.” 10-K for 2022	acquisition	—	$ 114 million
Nyansa, Inc. Word for word“The total purchase price, net of cash acquired, was $ 38 million.” 10-K for 2022	acquisition	—	$ 38 million
Carbon Black Inc. Word for word“The total purchase price was $ 2.0 billion, net of cash acquired of $ 111 million.” 10-K for 2022	acquisition	—	$ 2.0 billion

As filedReported in the company's financial data (XBRL), each linked to its filing
Fiscal year ended	Cash paid for acquisitions (net of cash acquired)	Goodwill from acquisitions
2016-12-31	$74 million	$39 million
2018-02-02	$671 million	$565 million
2019-02-01	$938 million	$784 million
2020-01-31	$2.44 billion	$1.91 billion
2021-01-29	$409 million	$270 million
2022-01-28	$23 million	—

Deal filings since 2016

2023-11-22 Form 8-K, Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
2022-05-26 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2021-11-01 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2021-10-07 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2021-08-02 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2021-04-14 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2020-04-07 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2019-12-30 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2019-08-22 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2019-08-22 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-11-15 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-07-02 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-08-24 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-08-21 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-03-30 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2016-12-15 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2016-09-07 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

Read from Vmware’s annual reports (10-K for 2023, 10-K for 2022, 10-K for 2021) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2023-03-28. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.