Summary

  • Private equity firm Regent has acquired TechCrunch from Yahoo for an undisclosed sum, giving TechCrunch its third owner in nine years.
  • Regent bought Foundry, which owns outlets including PCWorld, Macworld and TechAdvisor, on Thursday.
  • The acquisition reunited TechCrunch with several of its sister publications that were split between different owners over the years.
  • TechCrunch had been operated by Verizon until it sold its media portfolio to Apollo Global Management in 2021 for $5bn, which renamed the business Yahoo.
  • Yahoo will retain a small stake in TechCrunch, alongside its other holdings that include Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Finance and Yahoo News.

By Emma Roth

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