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Wednesday, 24 June 2026
Photo: Coolcaesar at en.wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0AI · North AmericaQualcomm buys Chris Lattner's AI software startup Modular in stock deal worth about $3.9 billionModular's owners get up to 19.2 million Qualcomm shares, worth about $3.92 billion on Reuters' count, roughly 2.5 times the $1.6 billion valuation the startup reached nine months earlier.
Photo: Cbuske46 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Climate & agritech · North AmericaMSCI buys climate risk data startup First Street for $120 million in cashThe index provider is paying $120 million upfront, plus possible earnouts, for a company that models flood, wildfire, wind and heat damage for more than 2 billion buildings and found that firms grew 6.5 times as likely to issue profit warnings after extreme weather.
Photo: David Anstiss / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Edtech · Latin AmericaLiveKid acquires Mexican childcare software maker Aldea to grow in Latin AmericaThe Polish platform, which handles more than $400 million a year in tuition and childcare payments, bought a Monterrey company that built the same kind of software for daycares in Mexico, Colombia and Chile.Tuesday, 23 June 2026
Photo: Torsten Dettlaff / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · North AmericaBackbase acquires Kasisto, maker of AI assistants for banksThe Amsterdam banking software company is folding Kasisto's agentic AI platform, used by lenders such as J.P. Morgan and TD, into its Banking OS and gaining a New York team in its biggest growth market.
Photo: Troutfarm27 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · North AmericaSoFi acquires Composer, an AI tool for building automated trading strategiesSoFi relaunched the Toronto-founded startup as Composer by SoFi, letting investors describe a strategy in plain English and have AI turn it into rules they can test and automate.
Photo: mattbuck (category) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0AI · North AmericaSuperhuman, formerly Grammarly, agrees to acquire AI detector GPTZeroGPTZero, which began as a Princeton senior thesis, reported more than 19 million registered users and about $30 million in annual recurring revenue after raising just $13.5 million.Monday, 22 June 2026
Photo: Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaF5 buys shadow-AI detection startup SurePath AI for $50.1 millionF5 announced the deal without a price, but its quarterly filing later showed it paid $50.1 million for the Denver company, about eight times the $6.3 million SurePath had raised.
Photo: EllalineSeoul / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Edtech · North AmericaBARBRI acquires Lega, a Brooklyn startup that trains lawyers to use AILega started out selling AI governance software to big law firms, then turned to hands-on AI workshops and hackathons. Its founder now becomes BARBRI's head of innovation.Thursday, 18 June 2026
Photo: Mike Linksvayer / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Cybersecurity · North AmericaCisco to acquire WideField Security to bring identity session data into SplunkCisco had joined WideField's Series A through Cisco Investments three months before agreeing to buy the identity security startup, whose technology will help Splunk's AI agents judge whether an action belongs to a legitimate session.
Photo: Zarateman / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Consumer & media · IndiaL'Oréal agrees to buy majority stake in Indian personal care startup InnovistIt is L'Oréal's first acquisition of an Indian company in nearly 13 years, and it comes with rights to buy out Innovist's founders and other minority holders later.Wednesday, 17 June 2026
Photo: Dllu / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Commerce & marketing · North AmericaBlueConic acquires Blueshift to pair its customer data platform with AI cross-channel messagingThe deal puts BlueConic's real-time customer profiles and Blueshift's email, push, in-app, SMS and web execution in one product, with more than 600 brands as combined customers.
Photo: Anirudh Koul / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · North AmericaDeepL acquires Mixhalo to bring live voice translation to stadiums and conferencesMixhalo, co-founded by Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger, streams audio to thousands of listeners within 20 milliseconds, and it was already using DeepL as its main translation engine before the two companies combined.
Photo: Zalasem1 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaModel N acquires Kalderos to add claims-level 340B drug discount dataModel N's own research found that only 1% of life sciences revenue leaders had real-time visibility into 340B discounts and government rebates; buying Kalderos gives it claims-level data across those programs.
Photo: Atadokoro / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaQuest Software acquires Anetac to monitor machine and AI-agent identitiesAnetac emerged from stealth only two years earlier with $16 million; Quest is buying it to watch service accounts, bots and AI agents, which it says now outnumber human users by up to 82 to 1.Tuesday, 16 June 2026
Photo: Jenny Hautmann / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Developer tools · North AmericaSpaceX agrees to buy Cursor maker Anysphere in a $60 billion all-stock dealSpaceX exercised an option it had secured in April, choosing a $60 billion all-stock purchase of the AI code editor's parent over a $10 billion partnership payment, about twice the valuation Cursor's investors set seven months earlier.
Photo: Bill Boaden / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0HR & work · EuropeCitation Group acquires London payroll startup PayCaptainCompliance software group Citation bought PayCaptain, the UK's first B Corp-certified payroll provider, to add payroll to the HR and health and safety tools it sells to small businesses. It is Citation's second payroll purchase in a year.
Photo: MockingBird45 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaDatabricks agrees to buy Panther to build out its security lakehouseDatabricks will fold Panther, an AI security operations platform once valued at $1.4 billion, into Lakewatch, its challenger to traditional SIEM tools. It is Databricks' third security acquisition.
Photo: rawpixel.com / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Healthtech & bio · East AsiaOMRON Healthcare acquires Calomeal maker Life Log Technology to pair meal and blood-pressure dataBlood-pressure monitor maker OMRON Healthcare is taking full ownership of Life Log Technology, whose Calomeal app estimates calories and nutrients from meal photos for more than 6.7 million users in Japan.