Brave is obviously aggresive enough to think about buying existing promising companies, so I think it wouldn't be too far off to assume they at least thought about Phase as well. Considering this is what they are doing, i assume they either did not approach Phase in the end, or couldn't come to an agreement. But then again, maybe Aviel did approach them instead.Now the big question: Given Brave's shopping spree and EN startups (plural), I'd assume that Brave were the ones to approach Aviel. It's hardly certain, but IMO more likely.
Was he the only one they approached?
As for smaller corps i have no idea. They don't have much reason to refuse i feel, especially if Brave is making a convincing offer.
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