Google Acquires Pointy

Announced January 14, 2020 — $163M

What happened

Pointy was a local retail inventory feeds business based in Ireland; acquired by Alphabet/Google and integrated into or used as Google Maps.

Google's acquisition history

235th of 269 tracked deals

Disclosed prices

66 of 269 Google deals

Google's average disclosed price

$1.20B

Google's largest disclosed deal

Wiz ($32B)

Tracked acquisitions in 2020

50 across all acquirers

Google in Local retail inventory feeds

1 acquisition

When did Google acquire Pointy?

Google acquired Pointy on January 14, 2020. This was Google's 235th publicly tracked acquisition out of 269 we have on record.

How much did Google pay for Pointy?

Google paid $163M for Pointy.

What does Pointy do?

Pointy was a local retail inventory feeds business based in Ireland; acquired by Alphabet/Google and integrated into or used as Google Maps.

What other Local retail inventory feeds companies has Google acquired?

Pointy is Google's only publicly tracked acquisition in Local retail inventory feeds so far.