AI acquisitions

In two weeks, Asana bought StackAI for $75M, Salesforce signed to acquire Contentful for $1–1.5B, Coupa acquired Rossum, Vertice acquired Vendr, and Palo Alto Networks closed the Portkey acquisition. Five deals across five different software categories targeting the same gap: the execution layer that lets AI agents do real work inside the enterprise. This article maps the emerging five-layer enterprise AI agent stack and provides two frameworks for CIOs deciding whether to build, buy, or partner.