Thrive Holdings to buy ADT for $7.6bn
What happened
On 30 October 2026, TechCrunch reported that Thrive Holdings, the private investment firm spun out of Thrive Capital, announced it will acquire physical security company ADT for $10 per share, about $7.6bn in equity, at a total enterprise value of $15.3bn. OpenAI is both a partner and an investor in Thrive Holdings, providing AI models and technology and embedding engineers at its companies. The report covers only the announcement of the deal and does not mention a completion date or the status of approvals.
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- TechCrunch · AIOpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings acquires ADT
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings is buying ADT in a $15.3 billion deal, with plans to bring AI to the home security business.
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