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GoPro Has Found Its Buyer – Starman Optical, $285 Million, and a Pivot Into AI Data Center Optics

The stated plan is to attach an American optical transceiver operation to GoPro's imaging patents and aim the result at AI data centers, government, defense and aerospace.

GoPro Has Found Its Buyer – Starman Optical, $285 Million, and a Pivot Into AI Data Center Optics

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The stated plan is to attach an American optical transceiver operation to GoPro's imaging patents and aim the result at AI data centers, government, defense and aerospace.

GoPro's sale process has ended, and the buyer is not a camera company.

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The stated plan is to attach an American optical transceiver operation to GoPro's imaging patents and aim the result at AI data centers, government, defense and aerospace. GoPro's sale process has ended, and the buyer is not a camera company. Starman Optical, a privately held US optical-photonics business, has signed a definitive merger agreement that pays GoPro shareholders $285 million in cash, or $1.14 per share, repays roughly $92 million of debt, and leaves existing holders with about 10 percent of a company that will keep trading on Nasdaq.

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GoPro's sale process has ended, and the buyer is not a camera company. Starman Optical, a privately held US optical-photonics business, has signed a definitive merger agreement that pays GoPro shareholders $285 million in cash, or $1.14 per share, repays roughly $92 million of debt, and leaves existing holders with about 10 percent of a company that will keep trading on Nasdaq.

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