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Thursday, 16 July 2026
Photo: Tessa Bury / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Commerce & marketing · IsraelInstacart acquires Israeli shelf-scanning startup ArpalusInstacart plans to let its 600,000 shoppers scan supermarket shelves with their phones while they pick orders, using Arpalus's computer vision to build a near real-time map of what is in stock.
Photo: Steve Jurvetson / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Fintech · North AmericaMoonPay buys Y Combinator-backed crypto deposits startup Glide in all-equity dealGlide had four employees and more than $100 million in annual volume when MoonPay bought it, making it the crypto payments company's sixth acquisition announcement of 2026.
Photo: Coolcaesar / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Data & analytics · North AmericaNetApp acquires DataPelago to run GPU-accelerated data processing inside its storageDataPelago's Nucleus engine lets Spark, Trino and Ray jobs run on GPUs and CPUs where the data already sits, and NetApp is betting that the bottleneck in enterprise AI is data preparation rather than models or chips.
Photo: Petro Stelte / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Climate & agritech · Southeast AsiaWinnow acquires Singapore food waste tracker Lumitics to expand in Asia-Pacific hotelsTwo AI food waste companies that both sell to the same hotel chains, including Accor and Marriott, are now one, with Lumitics customers moving to Winnow's VisionAI platform over the coming months.Wednesday, 15 July 2026
Image: VarthanaFintech · IndiaHome Credit India to buy school lender Varthana for ₹967 crore ($112 million)The TVS Holdings unit is paying all cash for a lender that says it has financed more than 13,000 private schools, and its institutional investors are selling their entire stakes.
Photo: Luc Saffre / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Developer tools · North AmericaAnaconda acquires Kilo Code, the open-source AI coding agent co-founded by GitLab's Sid SijbrandijKilo Code went from launch to more than 3 million developers in 16 months. Anaconda is buying it to reach the moment a developer types the first prompt.
Photo: Produnis / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0HR & work · EuropeArdian acquires majority of Berlin nurse recruiting platform PflegiaPflegia flips the job hunt for nurses: candidates post their preferences and employers apply to them. It says it now places about 1,000 care workers a month.
Photo: knothole eyes / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · IsraelBandLab Technologies acquires Israeli AI music studio AiodeAiode's virtual session players are trained only on licensed recordings made with real musicians. Calcalist put the price at tens of millions of dollars for a 12-person company.
Photo: Presidential Communications Office / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainHealthtech & bio · North AmericaLyric acquires Concert, which turns health plan coverage policies into codeConcert began in 2010 as a genetic testing catalogue. Its lab testing module, built with Lyric since 2023, will now be offered to Lyric's whole client base, which includes nine of the ten largest US health plans.
Photo: PvOberstein / Wikimedia Commons, CC0AI · North AmericaWhatnot acquires AI recommendation startup Shaped to speed up live shopping discoveryShaped founder Tullie Murrell, a former Meta AI researcher, will lead a new Applied AI Research group at Whatnot, bringing nearly a dozen engineers and researchers from the New York startup.Tuesday, 14 July 2026
Photo: Biosoybean9819 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Cybersecurity · IsraelCribl to acquire Israeli detection engineering startup CardinalOpsThe deal takes telemetry company Cribl into security operations and comes with a new Tel Aviv office; Calcalist estimated the price at about $100 million, though neither side disclosed it.
Photo: Suiren2022 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · North AmericaCSI acquires Qolo to give community banks treasury and payments toolsQolo, a Fort Lauderdale payments infrastructure company whose customers include Huntington Bank and KeyBank, will plug into the core banking software CSI sells to community banks.
Photo: Dominic Nelson / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Proptech · North AmericaRealPage acquires real estate data platform Cherre in first deal under CEO Dirk WakehamRealPage wants Cherre to organise the property data behind its AI tools. Cherre says its platform already resolves more than four billion entities covering $4 trillion in real assets.Thursday, 9 July 2026
Photo: Victorgrigas / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0AI · North AmericaMercor buys Deeptune, maker of simulated software for training AI agentsMercor chief executive Brendan Foody put his own money into Deeptune's $43 million Series A in March and told Fortune the plan to buy the company was "in a lot of ways the main motivation".
Photo: Afrinshaikh / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0AI · IndiaNurix AI to acquire Indian conversational AI company Verloop.ioMukesh Bansal's two-year-old Nurix is buying a decade-old chat automation company that handles more than 20 million customer conversations a month and raised about $8 million in its life.
Tuesday, 7 July 2026
Photo: Mds08011 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Fintech · North AmericaAxos Financial agrees to acquire YC-backed business banking startup ArcThe $29 billion-asset digital bank is buying Arc's cash management platform and its AI finance agent, Archie, to win small businesses that traditional banks overlook.
Photo: Carl Lender from Sunrise, USA / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaBarracuda acquires Evo Security, identity and access startup for MSPsBarracuda is folding the Austin company's single-agent identity and privileged access tools into BarracudaONE, aiming at managed service providers that look after thousands of client environments.
Photo: Aigner Ronja, Kohlmeier Michelle / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Edtech · Middle EastNoon Academy acquires Saudi exam-prep platform AlmakhfiAlmakhfi says it has helped more than 250,000 Saudi students prepare for the Qudurat and Tahsili university admission tests, and its content will now feed Noon Academy's AI-driven learning platform.