Shutterstock Acquires TurboSquid

Getty Images and Shutterstock Announce Merger of Equals in $3.7 Billion Deal

January 9, 2025

Media & Entertainment

Getty Images and Shutterstock entered into a definitive merger agreement to combine in a “merger of equals,” creating a premier visual content company with an enterprise value of about $3.7 billion. The combined company will be named Getty Images Holdings and will continue to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker GETY.

ShiftPixy, Inc. Acquires TurboScale for $150 Million

October 17, 2024

AI & Machine Learning

ShiftPixy, a Miami-based staffing and workforce-management platform, has acquired TurboScale, an AI infrastructure company, in a $150 million transaction comprised of $75 million in stock and $75 million in debt. The purchase brings GPU-accelerated cloud and AI model deployment capabilities into ShiftPixy's platform to accelerate AI-driven workforce analytics and automation, with new products expected by early 2025.

Shutterstock Acquires Envato Pty Ltd

July 23, 2024

Media & Entertainment

Shutterstock, Inc. has completed its previously announced acquisition of Envato Pty Ltd, a digital creative assets and templates leader. The deal adds Envato Elements to Shutterstock’s subscription offering and expands the combined content library and subscriber base.

Shutterstock Acquires Pond5

May 11, 2022

Media & Entertainment

Shutterstock, Inc. acquired Pond5, the world's largest video-first content marketplace, for $210 million in cash. The deal expands Shutterstock's video and editorial content library, provides broader distribution for Pond5's contributors, and is immediately accretive to Shutterstock's 2022 adjusted EBITDA.

Shutterstock Forms Shutterstock.AI and Acquires Pattern89, Datasine and Shotzr

July 27, 2021

AI & Machine Learning

Shutterstock, Inc. launched a new AI-focused subsidiary, Shutterstock.AI, and acquired three AI-driven creative/marketing platforms — Pattern89, Datasine and Shotzr — for aggregate cash consideration of approximately $35 million. The acquisitions are intended to accelerate Shutterstock's predictive creative, computer vision and content-insights capabilities and commercialize data assets from its large content library.

Epic Games Acquires Sketchfab

July 21, 2021

Software

Epic Games has acquired Sketchfab, a web-based 3D content discovery, editing and marketplace platform hosting millions of 3D assets. The acquisition will keep Sketchfab as an independently branded service while integrating closely with Unreal Engine to expand 3D, AR and VR creator tools and grow the creator ecosystem.