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title: "Sources: Palo Alto Networks paid $500M in cash and stock to acquire agentic IT support startup Console; PitchBook: Console was valued at $157M before the sale (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-palo-alto-networks-paid-500m-in-cash-and-stock-to-acquire-5671103f
published: 2026-09-02T23:05:00.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Sources: Palo Alto Networks paid $500M in cash and stock to acquire agentic IT support startup Console; PitchBook: Console was valued at $157M before the sale (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-09-02 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-palo-alto-networks-paid-500m-in-cash-and-stock-to-acquire-5671103f

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch : Sources: Palo Alto Networks paid $500M in cash and stock to acquire agentic IT support startup Console; PitchBook: Console was valued at $157M before the sale — Palo Alto Networks paid $500 million in cash and stock to acquire Console, a two-year-old startup that uses AI agents to automate routine …

In this story: [Palo Alto Networks](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/palo-alto-networks), [PitchBook](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/pitchbook), [Console](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/console), [Marina Temkin](https://frontiernewswire.com/people/marina-temkin)

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/260902/p44#a260902p44)

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