Database-as-aService (DaaB) Sector Expansion: MongoDB’s Acquisition of Voyage AI Tech Startup to Moderate Hallucination database-as-aservice-daab-sector-expansion-mongodb-s-acquisition-of-voyage-ai-tech-startup-to-moderate-hallucination Volume 6, Issue 1 ARTICLES 2026 6 Invention is the crucial source of development and competitive gains in tech segment of the industry specifically artificial intelligence domain. In the context of aggressive hi-tech rivalry, augmenting innovation competencies is strategic factor to accomplish even for mature big tech firms. To enhance innovation capabilities the big tech companies are following the path of mergers and acquisitions to get hold of external technologies. In this context, this deal in Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) domain is a landmark deal. The research contents of this article present the motivation (acquiring external technologies in short time) of MongoDB which has grown organically in the past, acquiring a high-tech startup Voyage AI at a very high exit evaluation cost. The research article concluded that the acquisition strategy of MongoDB is more similar to horizontal acquisition. Post-merger integration model of MongoDB is in sync with theories such as Resource Based View, Knowledge Based View, Open Innovation Theory, and Absorption Capacity Theory. This is because of technological, financial capabilities, and market reach of MongoDB (Colombo et al., 2021). The integration of technologies of two firms will reduce hallucination in AI applications and provide a platform for future innovations in AI domain. It will fill the technological gaps for MongoDB and may create technological disruption in future if MongoDB able to innovate with acquired new skills

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