M&A SmartCraft Buys LiveCosts for €8.45M, and the Multiple Is Worth Writing Down A profitable Irish cost-control platform with €1.77M of ARR sold for under five times revenue — a number worth holding next to what AI-branded construction startups are raising at. Hugo Pegley · Sep 8, 2026
M&A Procore Is Paying $845 Million for Eyes Procore will acquire reality-capture platform DroneDeploy for approximately $845 million in cash — announced on the same day it told investors it had achieved GAAP operating profitability. The deal buys the one thing its AI agents could not read: the jobsite itself. Hugo Pegley · Jul 30, 2026
M&A Autodesk's $3.6 Billion MaintainX Deal Is a Bet That the Money Is in 'Operate,' Not 'Design' The largest acquisition in Autodesk's history is not a design tool or a construction platform — it's a maintenance app for factory and facility teams. The logic reveals where the company thinks the next decade of value in the built environment actually sits. Hugo Pegley · Jun 13, 2026
