Google has disclosed over 270 acquisitions in its history.
Its biggest acquisition to date came in March 2025, when it bought cloud security company Wiz for $33B — nearly 3x the value of its $12.5B acquisition of Motorola Mobility in 2012. (It sold Motorola Mobility off after just 2 years for a quarter of the acquisition price.)
Using CB Insights M&A data, we made a visual timeline of the largest acquisitions in Google’s history. See the list of top 10 below.
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Google’s top 10 acquisitions:
- Wiz ($33B, 2025) — Cybersecurity
- Motorola Mobility ($12.5B, 2012) — Mobile
- Mandiant ($5.4B, 2022) — Cybersecurity
- Nest Labs ($3.2B, 2014) — Home automation
- DoubleClick ($3.1B, 2007) — Advertising
- Looker ($2.6B, 2019) — Business intelligence
- Fitbit ($2.1B, 2019) — Wearables
- YouTube ($1.7B, 2006) — Video sharing
- Waze ($1.15B, 2013) — Mapping
- HTC – Pixel Smartphone Division ($1.1B, 2017) — Mobile
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Google has spent nearly $65B on its top 10 acquisitions.
- All 10 of the top deals pictured had valuations greater than $1B, including marketing solutions provider DoubleClick ($3.1B, 2007) and navigation app Waze ($1.15B, 2013). YouTube ($1.7B, 2006) was Google’s first $1B+ acquisition.
- These top deals reflect Google’s strategy evolution, from adtech (AdMob, DoubleClick) in the late 2000s to mobile (Motorola Mobility) and wearables (Fitbit) in the 2010s to cloud computing and security (Mandiant, Looker, Wiz).