Photo: KruegA / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Uber agrees to buy workplace catering marketplace ezCater for $2.3 billion in cash
ezCater handled more than $2.5 billion in gross bookings over the past year with average orders above $400, and Uber says the Boston company is already profitable on an adjusted basis.
$2.3bn$420m5.5xSeries D+2007
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North America · AIXMax agrees to buy vertical GaN chip startup Hexa Creation for $4.1 million
Europe · AIOxford Metrics buys Move AI's assets for £525,000, a fraction of the $17.5m it raised
North America · AIApple acqui-hires Huxe, the AI audio startup founded by former Google NotebookLM developers
North America · Developer toolsCloudflare takes on Ryan Dahl's Deno team and will wind down the Deno runtime and Deno Deploy
North America · Commerce & marketingHightouch acquires Strata, an AI agent that builds marketing integrations without code
North America · ProptechPLACE agrees to acquire mortgage AI startup Ardley, two weeks after buying Maxwell
Europe · Climate & agritechSource.ag acquires Optimal to add autonomous climate control for greenhouses
Biggest exits this week
BostonSeries D+$2.3bnezCateracquired by Uber$1bn+5.5x raisedAustinStage n/a$2bnIntraBioacquired by Shionogi$1bn+36.4x raisedTampereStage n/a$8mKilpiTekacquired by M-KOPA< $50mRaised n/aTokyoStage n/a$5.8mAcrosstudioacquired by Coconala< $50mRaised n/aUnited StatesStage n/a$4.1mHexa Creationacquired by XMax< $50mRaised n/aNew YorkSeries A$1.3mOsoacquired by Tiny< $50m0.1x raisedLondonSeed$0.7mMove AIacquired by Oxford Metrics< $50m0x raised
7 largest disclosed exits announced 5–11 October 2026. Multiple = price ÷ total venture funding raised.Top deals
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Content Providers: CDC/ Douglas / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainHealthtech & bio · North AmericaShionogi agrees to buy rare-disease drugmaker IntraBio for $2 billionShionogi is paying $2 billion in cash for a privately held biotech whose only product, Aqneursa, brought in about $68 million last year and won a second FDA approval less than three weeks before the deal.
Image: M-KOPAFintech · EuropeM-KOPA buys Finnish phone-locking software maker KilpiTek for $8 millionThe Kenyan smartphone lender quietly closed the deal in March; UK filings now show it paid a third in cash and the rest mostly in its own shares to own the software that locks phones when customers miss payments.
Photo: Luke Ma from Taipei, Taiwan ROC / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · East AsiaCoconala buys 51% of AI consultancy Acrosstudio for ¥872 million ($5.8 million)The Tokyo skills marketplace is making the five-year-old AI implementation firm, which booked about $7.5 million in revenue last year, the core of the new AI division it set up in September.Photo: Sangitiana Fararano / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0AI · North AmericaXMax agrees to buy vertical GaN chip startup Hexa Creation for $4.1 millionThe former furniture seller Nova LifeStyle, renamed XMax last year, is paying about $4.1 million in cash for a startup built on university-licensed patents for 1200V gallium nitride power transistors aimed at AI data centres.
Photo: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Slovinský / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaTiny buys Oso Cloud's assets for C$1.9 million as Oso's founder and team join TemporalA startup that raised about $26 million from investors including Sequoia and Felicis sold its authorization product for C$1.9 million (about $1.3 million), while its CEO and part of the team went to Temporal to work on AI agent security.
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Content Providers: CDC/ Douglas / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainHealthtech & bio · North AmericaShionogi agrees to buy rare-disease drugmaker IntraBio for $2 billionShionogi is paying $2 billion in cash for a privately held biotech whose only product, Aqneursa, brought in about $68 million last year and won a second FDA approval less than three weeks before the deal.Image: M-KOPAFintech · EuropeM-KOPA buys Finnish phone-locking software maker KilpiTek for $8 millionThe Kenyan smartphone lender quietly closed the deal in March; UK filings now show it paid a third in cash and the rest mostly in its own shares to own the software that locks phones when customers miss payments.Photo: Luke Ma from Taipei, Taiwan ROC / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · East AsiaCoconala buys 51% of AI consultancy Acrosstudio for ¥872 million ($5.8 million)The Tokyo skills marketplace is making the five-year-old AI implementation firm, which booked about $7.5 million in revenue last year, the core of the new AI division it set up in September.Photo: Sangitiana Fararano / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0AI · North AmericaXMax agrees to buy vertical GaN chip startup Hexa Creation for $4.1 millionThe former furniture seller Nova LifeStyle, renamed XMax last year, is paying about $4.1 million in cash for a startup built on university-licensed patents for 1200V gallium nitride power transistors aimed at AI data centres.Photo: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Slovinský / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaTiny buys Oso Cloud's assets for C$1.9 million as Oso's founder and team join TemporalA startup that raised about $26 million from investors including Sequoia and Felicis sold its authorization product for C$1.9 million (about $1.3 million), while its CEO and part of the team went to Temporal to work on AI agent security.By region
All regions →Uber agrees to buy workplace catering marketplace ezCater for $2.3 billion in cashShionogi agrees to buy rare-disease drugmaker IntraBio for $2 billionXMax agrees to buy vertical GaN chip startup Hexa Creation for $4.1 million
M-KOPA buys Finnish phone-locking software maker KilpiTek for $8 millionOxford Metrics buys Move AI's assets for £525,000, a fraction of the $17.5m it raisedSource.ag acquires Optimal to add autonomous climate control for greenhouses
The week in numbers
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Photo: JustWritingHere / Wikimedia Commons, CC0This week37 startup exits announced, $4.32bn in disclosed value
Photo: Joseph Moxon / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainSectorsAI led the week with 8 deals
Photo: King of Hearts / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0RegionsNorth America accounted for 21 of 37 exits
Photo: rawpixel.com / Wikimedia Commons, CC0BuyersOther startups were the acquirer in 19 of 37 dealsLargest disclosed deals1Uber agrees to buy workplace catering marketplace ezCater for $2.3 billion in cash2Shionogi agrees to buy rare-disease drugmaker IntraBio for $2 billion3M-KOPA buys Finnish phone-locking software maker KilpiTek for $8 million4Coconala buys 51% of AI consultancy Acrosstudio for ¥872 million ($5.8 million)5XMax agrees to buy vertical GaN chip startup Hexa Creation for $4.1 million