Google ka $32 Billion Wiz Deal: Startups aur Trump Administration ke Liye Kya Matlab Hai?

Google ka $32 Billion Wiz Deal: Startups aur Trump Administration ke Liye Kya Matlab Hai?

Hugh Langley aur Riddhi Kanetkar | 18 March 2025, 8:02 PM GMT+5:30

Google ne apna sabse bada deal karke sabko chaukaya diya hai — cybersecurity company Wiz ko $32 billion mein khareedne ka faisla kiya hai. Ye na sirf 2025 ka ab tak ka sabse bada deal hai, balki ye Donald Trump ki antitrust policies ke liye bhi ek bada test hai. Iske alawa, ye deal startup ecosystem mein M&A (mergers and acquisitions) activity ko firse tez kar sakta hai, jo kuch saalon se thoda slow chal raha tha.

Deal ki Details

Google ki parent company, Alphabet, aur Wiz ne Tuesday ko is $32billionall-cashdealkoconfirmkiya.Pehle,donocompanieslastyear$23 billion ke deal par baat kar rahi thi, lekin baatein fail ho gayi, aur Wiz ne IPO (initial public offering) ka plan banaya tha.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai ne bataya ki ye acquisition Google ki cloud security capabilities ko aur majboot banayega, khaaskar jab AI (artificial intelligence) naye risks la raha hai aur multi-cloud aur hybrid environments standard ban rahe hain. Pichai ne kaha, “Organizations ab aisi cybersecurity solutions dhundh rahe hain jo cloud security ko improve karein aur multiple platforms par kaam karein.”

Wiz, jo Israel mein shuru hui aur ab New York mein headquartered hai, cloud security technology mein specialize karti hai. Ye technology companies ke cloud infrastructure mein risks ko identify karti hai. Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian ne bataya ki Wiz ke services ab bhi dusre cloud providers jaise Amazon Web Services (AWS) aur Microsoft Azure ke through available rahenge.

Google CFO Anat Ashkenazi ne kaha ki deal 2026 tak close ho sakti hai, lekin isme regulatory approvals ka intezar hai. Google ke liye, ye deal ek mauka hai apne cloud offerings ko aur behtar banane ka, jo abhi Microsoft aur Amazon se peeche hain. Kurian ne kaha, “Wiz ke saath, hum security ko design, operate, aur automate karne ke tareeke mein badlaav la sakte hain.”

Startup Exits ke Liye Boost

83.6 billion tha (PitchBook data ke hisab se). Lekin 2025 ke pehle quarter mein sirf 382 M&A deals hui hain, jinka value $13.6 billion hai. Google ka Wiz deal isko badal sakta hai.

Mariam Pettit, Graph Theory Capital ki managing partner, ne bataya ki acquisitions startups ko public markets ki volatility se bacha sakte hain aur unhe long-term growth par focus karne mein madad karte hain. “Acquisitions IPO se jaldi returns de sakte hain, kyunki IPO mein financial audits, restructuring, aur regulatory compliance jaise tough processes hote hain,” unhone kaha.

IPO market bhi kuch saalon se struggle kar raha hai. 2024 mein Instacart, Klaviyo, aur Ibotta jaise companies ka performance Morningstar Growth Index se kam raha. Wiz ka Google ke saath deal ek aur rasta dikhata hai growth ke liye. Reports ke hisab se, Wiz ne last quarter mein $700 million ka annual recurring revenue cross kiya hai.

Trump ki Antitrust Policy ka Test

Ye deal Trump administration ke regulatory environment ka bhi test hai. Trump ko M&A-friendly climate banane ka expectation tha, lekin Vice President JD Vance ne stricter dealmaking rules ko support kiya hai. Last year, Vance ne corporate mergers ke tax breaks ko khatam karne wale legislation ko support kiya, jo Biden administration mein FTC Chair Lina Khan ke stance ke kareeb hai. Khan ne Microsoft aur Amazon ke businesses par investigations shuru kiye the.

Andrew Ferguson, Khan ke successor, ne February mein kaha ki Trump administration Biden ke stringent merger guidelines ko continue karegi. Is background mein, Google par do antitrust lawsuits hain, jinmein se ek search business ke khilaf hai jo Trump ke pehle term mein shuru hua tha.

Google ne recent acquisitions mein regulatory challenges ko successfully handle kiya hai, jaise 2021 mein Fitbit ko $2.1billionmeinaur2022meincybersecurityfirmMandiantko$5.4 billion mein khareeda. Lekin Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf, EMARKETER ki senior analyst, ne is deal ko “bold move” bataya.

Unhone kaha, “Deal ka size aur search market mein Google ka anticompetitive behavior dekh kar, is deal par bahut scrutiny hogi aur ye bina hurdles ke nahi hogi.”

Conclusion

Google ka Wiz deal ek historical deal hai jiske dur-reaching implications hain. Startups ke liye, ye M&A activity ko firse tez kar sakta hai. Trump administration ke liye, ye ek bada test hai unki antitrust policies ka. Jab tak deal 2026 mein close hoti hai, regulators aur tech aur startup ecosystems par sabki nazar hogi.