Founded in 2008 by Frank Quattrone and two of his colleagues at Credit Suisse, Qatalyst provides M&A and strategic advisory services to established and emerging companies in the technology industry. Qatalyst’s practice spans across four main verticals: consumer/internet; enterprise software; communications technology (storage, infrastructure, networking); and semiconductors. The Qatalyst team combines its network of relationships with its industry knowledge and transaction expertise when delivering advice to its clients. Recent deals include advising Slack on its $29 billion sale to Salesforce, Armis on its $7.75 billion sale to ServiceNow, Intuit on its $7.1 billion acquisition of Credit Karma, Fitbit on its $2.1 billion sale to Google, Coursera on its $2.5 billion merger with Udemy, and Workfront on its $1.5 billion sale to Adobe.