GoPro has been acquired and is getting into ‘defense, government, robotics and aerospace’

<figure> <img alt="" data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Image: GoPro" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/GoPro-Mission-1-Action-Camera-Lifestyle-Image.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">GoPro suddenly looks like a <em>very</em> different company than it did just last week. First, YouTuber Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach became <a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/986847/markiplier-gopro-investor">the company's single largest shareholder</a>, without disclosing that in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8flNsaufwKk">a sponsored review</a> that came out <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1500435/000163075926000003/xslSCHEDULE_13G_X02/primary_doc.xml">a week later</a>. Now, almost the entire company has been bought by Starman Holding for $285 million in cash, which Starman is characterizing as a "merger." </p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">While GoPro has always been best known as the company that makes consumer action cameras, <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gopro-enters-into-definitive-agreement-to-merge-with-starman-optical-inc-302866291.html">the press release</a> takes a bit of a different tone: founder and CEO Nick Woodman now calls GoPro "a leading American imaging and optical solutions company, addressing import …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/987494/gopro-starman-holding-merger-aquisition">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>