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Monday, 12 October 2026
Image: ElisityCybersecurity · North AmericaIonQ agrees to buy zero-trust security startup Elisity in all-stock deal worth up to $1.3 billionThe quantum computing company is paying entirely in its own shares for a network security business that raised about $72 million, and $150 million of the headline price depends on Elisity hitting performance targets after the deal closes.
Image: LoopsData & analytics · IsraelSalesforce agrees to buy AI analytics startup Loops for Tableau, in a deal reported at $30 millionSalesforce will fold Loops, a six-year-old Israeli startup that raised $14 million in a single seed round, into Tableau, betting that analytics software should explain why a business metric moved rather than just chart it.
Image: TjekCommerce & marketing · EuropeAxel Springer's Bonial takes majority stake in Copenhagen shopping-app company TjekThe deal takes Bonial, owner of Germany's kaufDA and MeinProspekt, from two markets to six. Tjek's co-founders Morten Bo and Jack Tolboe keep minority stakes and stay on as CEO and COO.
Photo: ctsnow / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Consumer & media · Latin AmericaDAZN acquires Latin American basketball streaming service Basket.TVThe six-year-old service streams about 4,900 games a season from more than 300 teams in six South American countries, giving DAZN domestic league rights in a region where it has so far had a significant presence only in Brazil.
Photo: Joonspoon / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Enterprise software · North AmericaFreshworks agrees to buy Torii to add software and AI spend tracking to FreshserviceTorii, which raised $65 million including a $50 million round led by Tiger Global in 2022, is selling to Freshworks for undisclosed terms as companies try to measure what they spend on AI tools down to the token.Friday, 9 October 2026
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: Tim Sheerman-Chase / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · EuropeOxford Metrics buys Move AI's assets for £525,000, a fraction of the $17.5m it raisedThe London markerless motion-capture startup counted Epic Games, Disney and Nike as customers, but its technology, patents and team went to Vicon's parent for £525,000 (about $700,000) in cash.
Photo: Myotus / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0AI · North AmericaApple acqui-hires Huxe, the AI audio startup founded by former Google NotebookLM developersApple gets the right to hire Huxe staff and a licence to its technology. The deal only surfaced on the EU's Digital Markets Act register, four months after Apple notified Brussels and shortly after Huxe had switched off its app.
Image: ChimoneyFintech · North AmericaCapitalSage completes Chimoney acquisition five months after the payments startup shut downChimoney stopped processing payments in May after running out of capital. Its new owner has restarted the business, relaunched its consumer app as remittance service Tiki, and the founder says every investor was repaid in full.
Photo: Marvel44 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Edtech · North AmericaCarnegie Learning buys AI writing platform Ethiqly from Owl VenturesCarnegie Learning bought a writing tool designed so that AI never writes for the student, and plans to put it alongside its Lenses on Literature curriculum for grades 6 to 12.
Photo: Matthew (WMF) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Developer tools · North AmericaCloudflare takes on Ryan Dahl's Deno team and will wind down the Deno runtime and Deno DeployDeno Deploy will close in six months and the runtime gets one more year of fixes, as the Node.js creator's team merges its self-hosted Workers clone, celld, into Cloudflare's open-source workerd.
Photo: Virginia State Parks staff / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Commerce & marketing · North AmericaHightouch acquires Strata, an AI agent that builds marketing integrations without codeFive months after raising $150 million at a $2.75 billion valuation, Hightouch bought a two-year-old startup started by three early Iterable employees to cut the engineering work behind its connectors.
Photo: Calistemon / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Proptech · North AmericaPLACE agrees to acquire mortgage AI startup Ardley, two weeks after buying MaxwellArdley, founded by a former Fannie Mae architect, mines lenders' existing loan books for refinance and home-equity offers. It is the third deal PLACE has announced since mid-August.
Image: Source.agClimate & agritech · EuropeSource.ag acquires Optimal to add autonomous climate control for greenhousesAmsterdam-based Source.ag, whose software already runs in more than 500 greenhouses, is buying the London startup whose AI grew 13% more crop with 27% less energy than a benchmark Dutch grower. Its first autonomous deployments go live this winter.Thursday, 8 October 2026
Photo: Satheesh Sankaran / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Fintech · GlobalAnyflo exits stealth and acqui-hires Native, a Bitcoin lending team on SuiThe Mysten Labs-incubated stablecoin payments startup launched at TOKEN2049 in Singapore with Native's team already on board. Native had raised just under $2 million and placed in the top five of 630 projects at Sui Overflow 2025.
Photo: King of Hearts / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Legal & compliance · EuropeBehavox acquires Zurich regtech Apiax to add cross-border compliance rules to its platformFour months after raising $175 million from BlackRock's HPS partly to fund acquisitions, Behavox is buying a Swiss startup that turns financial regulation in more than 200 jurisdictions into machine-readable rules.
Photo: Txllxt TxllxT / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Travel & hospitality · AfricaBellair Road and Janic Capital lead consortium buying South African booking platform LekkeSlaapFounders Jonathan Womersley and Marcel van de Ghinste are cashing out 17 years after starting in a garage with R12,000, selling to a group backed by the families of FirstRand co-founders GT Ferreira and Laurie Dippenaar.
Photo: forextime.com / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Fintech · North AmericaThoma Bravo-backed BlueMatrix agrees to buy Aiera to pipe Wall Street research into AI toolsAiera was funded by a consortium of ten big research providers that wanted control over how AI systems use their reports. It is now being sold to the company that many of them already use to publish those reports.
Photo: W.carter / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaPritzker-backed Emergence acquires Charlotte patient-outcomes software maker Clinect HealthcareEmergence buys software companies to hold rather than sell, and Clinect, a 14-year-old company that tracks how patients fare after treatment, is its latest healthcare deal.
Photo: Zhongia wSIE / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Travel & hospitality · North AmericaGoodwin acquires in-flight catering startup DineUp to add meal orders to charter bookingsThe Columbus charter-software company bought a small catering platform rather than build its own, so private flight operators can book, pay for and cater a trip in one system.