Design M&A Activity Over 70 design agencies have been acquired since 2004. >50% of which have been acquired since 2015 2004 - 2012 2013 - 2014 2015 COMPANY ACQUIRED BY COMPANY ACQUIRED BY COMPANY ACQUIRED BY COMPANY ACQUIRED BY 2004 Frog Design Flextronics 2013 Hot Studio Facebook 2014 Cynergy Systems KPMG Teehan+Lax Facebook 2007 Doblin Monitor 2013 Fjord Accenture 2014 S&C BCG Spring Studio BBVA 2009 Bigstock Shutterstock 2013 Jet Cooper Shopify 2014 Ultravisual Flipboard Lunar Design McKinsey 2010 TAT Rim 2013 Banyan Ranch Deloitte 2014 Aviary Adobe Monsoon Capital One 2011 Sofa Facebook 2013 Hook & Loop Infor DesignIt Wipro 2011 Typekit Adobe 2013 17FEET Google Seren Ernst & Young 2011 Method Globallogic 2013 Hattery Google Mobiento Deloitte 2011 Helicopter One Kings Lane 2013 Mixel Etsy Lapka Airbnb 2012 Maaike Google 2014 Carbon Design Oculus/Facebook Catalyst Cooper *consolidation 2012 Bolt Peters Facebook 2014 Gecko Design Google Akta Salesforce 2012 80/20 Square 2014 Adaptive Path Capital One Chaotic Moon Accenture 2012 Cuban Council Google 2014 Reactive Accenture PacificLink Accenture 2012 Behance Adobe 2014 Flow Interactive Deloitte Farm Design Flex 2014 Optimal Experience PWC Tactel Panasonic Avionics Software tool companies and creative communities. Fotolia Adobe https://designintechreport.wordpress.com @justinsayarath @tberno Section 2: Design → De$ign 13