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Wednesday, 29 July 2026
Photo: Official U.S. Navy Page / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainHealthtech & bio · North AmericaDoctronic acquires text-based pediatric care service Summer HealthThe AI primary care company is extending its service to children from birth, and plans to train pediatric AI models on Summer Health's archive of about 100,000 parent text conversations.
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Legal & compliance · EuropeLegora buys London litigation AI startup Wexler in its fifth deal of 2026Wexler's 18-person team will become the founding team of Legora's London engineering hub, and its fact-finding engine will sit underneath Legora's AI agents for legal work.Tuesday, 28 July 2026
Photo: Ynhockey / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Cybersecurity · IsraelCyera agrees to buy AI-agent identity startup Oasis Security for about $1 billionFour months after Oasis raised at a $700 million valuation, Cyera signed a letter of intent to buy it for about $1 billion, roughly $700 million of it in cash.
Photo: Ansgar Koreng / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 deFintech · EuropeCover Genius acquires Berlin bancassurance startup FriendsuranceFriendsurance began as a peer-to-peer insurance model with cashback for low-claim groups and later rebuilt itself as software that lets banks sell insurance inside their apps.
Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaIncluded Health agrees to acquire Firefly Health to expand alternative employer health plansFirefly says its integrated primary care and health plan cut total cost of care by 15% against risk-adjusted benchmarks across its 2025 self-funded employer book.
Photo: Biswarup Ganguly / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0Commerce & marketing · IndiaSnitch buys women's fashion label Berrylush to move beyond menswearThe Bengaluru menswear brand chose to buy an existing women's label rather than build one, and says it wants to grow Berrylush into a ₹1,000 crore (about $116 million) brand.
Photo: Arild Vågen / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · North AmericaVena agrees to buy Toronto data startup Morpheo AI to build finance 'context engine'Vena tested Morpheo's software on its own customer pilots before agreeing to buy the seven-person company, whose Omega platform will become the base of a new product called Vena Omega.Friday, 24 July 2026
Photo: epSos.de / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · IsraelMicrochip agrees to acquire Israeli edge AI chipmaker HailoHailo was once valued above $1 billion; after a failed SPAC merger and cutting half its staff, it agreed to sell to Microchip at a price Calcalist said was well below the capital it had raised.
Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · North AmericaNotion acquires ZeroEntropy, the retrieval-model startup behind its search rerankerNotion was a ZeroEntropy customer first: the startup's reranker made Notion's unified search up to 30% faster before the whole team was hired to start a model research group.Thursday, 23 July 2026
Photo: William John Gauthier from Denmark / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0AI · EuropeAiven acquires Flow AI, the Finnish team behind Flowrite, to run AI agents next to customer dataFlow AI started as Flowrite, an AI email-writing tool with hundreds of thousands of users, before pivoting to infrastructure for analytical AI agents.
Photo: Rob-Jeanette Folwell / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Travel & hospitality · AfricaGlampings.com agrees to buy Conservio, a Cape Town booking site for safari and nature staysThe deal adds about 1,000 Southern African properties to the Dutch platform's roughly 4,500 European listings and takes it outside Europe for the first time.
Photo: W.carter / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0AI · North AmericaSierra acquires Takeoff, a three-person long-horizon AI agent startup, to build HorizonTakeoff said it went from no recurring revenue at the start of 2026 to nearly eight figures by early July with three people, then chose to join Sierra rather than hire a sales team and raise again.Tuesday, 21 July 2026
Photo: Yair-haklai / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Mobility & logistics · North AmericaAltana acquires Cervo AI to automate customs entry writing for logistics providersCervo's software turns emails, EDI feeds and PDFs into submission-ready customs filings, the step Altana's platform did not cover, in a brokerage market Altana puts at about $45 billion.
Photo: Intel Free Press / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaMindoula acquires virtual mental health provider Valera Health and Janus Healthcare PartnersThe two deals add Valera's group of more than 300 clinicians to Mindoula and give the Maryland company a psychiatric collaborative care business as it pushes into value-based contracts.
Photo: Intel Free Press / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Developer tools · North AmericaPalo Alto Networks buys Embrace to add real user monitoring to its observability platformThe deal, which closed on 27 August, is Palo Alto Networks' second observability purchase of 2026, following the $3.35 billion Chronosphere deal completed in January.
Photo: DXR / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Commerce & marketing · OceaniaTracksuit acquires Hall, a Sydney startup that tracks how brands show up in AI chatbotsHall, which had raised A$2 million (about US$1.3 million) from Blackbird, now gives Tracksuit a way to measure what AI assistants say about a brand alongside what people think of it.
Photo: Oceanic7777 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaWildflower Health acquires Every Mother, a digital pelvic floor and core health programThe deal gives Wildflower, which reaches women through insurers and OB-GYN practices, its first direct-to-consumer product.
Photo: N509FZ / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · East AsiaZhipu takes control of AI compiler startup xCore Sigma as it builds a 1GW domestic-chip data centreBusiness registry records show a Zhipu entity now holds about 60% of xCore Sigma after 15 earlier shareholders, including a state-backed Beijing AI fund, exited.