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Monday, 1 June 2026
Image: D-Fend SolutionsCybersecurity · IsraelMotorola Solutions to buy Israeli counter-drone startup D-Fend Solutions for $1.5 billionD-Fend's technology does not shoot drones down or jam them: it takes over their radio link and lands them, and Motorola expects it to bring in $185 million of revenue in 2026.
Photo: Sharon Hahn Darlin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Enterprise software · EuropeSalesforce buys Berlin-founded content platform Contentful for about $1.5 billion in cashSalesforce wants Contentful's content store as the layer its Agentforce AI agents draw on; the price disclosed in a later filing was about half the $3 billion valuation Contentful reached in 2021.
Thursday, 28 May 2026
Photo: Syced / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Enterprise software · North AmericaAutodesk to buy maintenance software startup MaintainX for $3.6 billion in cashAutodesk's largest acquisition came less than a year after MaintainX raised money at a $2.5 billion valuation, and gives the design software company a foothold in running factories and facilities.
Photo: Crew crew / Wikimedia Commons, CC0AI · North AmericaAsana buys no-code AI agent builder StackAI for a reported $75 millionThe Y Combinator-backed startup had raised just under $20 million; it keeps its own brand inside Asana, which is betting on software where people and AI agents share the work.Wednesday, 27 May 2026
Photo: Submer / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaSnowflake buys AI agent governance startup Natoma for about $110 millionNatoma, founded in 2024 and backed by a $7 million seed round, sold mostly for Snowflake shares; the deal closed a week after it was announced.
Photo: Zvi Roger / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0Mobility & logistics · IsraelElbit Systems' FUSE unit buys Israeli off-road autonomy startup BluewhiteBluewhite began by turning orchard tractors in California into driverless machines; Elbit's autonomy unit FUSE bought all of its shares to take the technology into defense ground vehicles.Tuesday, 26 May 2026
Photo: Chlaborewan / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaEli Lilly agrees to buy shingles vaccine developer Curevo for up to $1.5 billionIn a Phase 2 trial against the current standard of care, Curevo's amezosvatein matched the immune response while cutting side effects such as fatigue, chills and injection-site pain by more than half.
Photo: Infrogmation / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaSwoop acquires Nimble, a prescription platform for independent pharmacies, to reach patientsHealthcare marketer Swoop is buying a platform that 16 million patients use to fill and pay for prescriptions at independent pharmacies, so it can track whether its campaigns turn into filled scripts.
Thursday, 21 May 2026
Photo: NASA Headquarters / NASA/Keegan Barber / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainEnterprise software · North AmericaCoupa acquires Tonkean to add AI intake and workflow orchestration to its spend platformTonkean, a no-code platform that routes and resolves requests for procurement and legal teams, is Coupa's fourth acquisition in its push to build an AI-driven trade network.
Photo: Kim Scarborough from Chicago, IL / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaCranium AI acquires Aiceberg, an agentic AI security startup, and makes its CEO CTOAll of Aiceberg's staff move to Cranium, and Aiceberg chief executive Alex Schlager becomes Cranium's chief technology officer in charge of merging the two products.
Photo: Thank You (21 Millions+) views / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Fintech · North AmericaSoFi buys loan-servicing startup Peach to grow its technology platform for lendersPeach, an eight-year-old maker of loan management and servicing software, becomes part of the same SoFi unit that houses Galileo and Technisys. SoFi later disclosed that it paid cash.
Photo: Matthew (WMF) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Developer tools · North AmericaSonar acquires Gitar, an AI code review agent built by former Uber platform engineersGitar came out of stealth with $9 million in funding in April 2026. About five weeks later its founders were joining SonarQube's maker to add AI review and automatic CI fixes to its code checks.
Photo: Kurt Kaiser / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Cybersecurity · North AmericaZscaler to acquire Symmetry Systems to map and police what AI agents can reachSymmetry's access graph shows which people, apps and AI agents touch which data. Zscaler wants it as the basis for rules on how millions of autonomous agents talk to systems and to each other.Wednesday, 20 May 2026
Photo: Group29 at English Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaMedtronic agrees to buy SPR Therapeutics for $650 million in cashThe Cleveland company's SPRINT PNS system treats pain with 60 days of nerve stimulation and no permanent implant, giving Medtronic an earlier option in its pain portfolio.
Photo: DogeGamer2015MZT / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Cybersecurity · IsraelCyera buys five-month-old Genie Security in deal estimated at $50 millionGenie Security had five employees and $3 million in seed funding when Cyera bought it, about five months after the Israeli endpoint data-protection startup was founded.
Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaIntegrated Home Care Services acquires Dina, an AI care coordination platform for in-home careDina's founder Ashish V. Shah joins the Florida in-home benefit manager as chief product and technology officer, with plans to expand into 20 to 30 US states.
Photo: BobVillars / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · EuropeMistral AI acquires Emmi AI, a Linz startup building physics AI for industrial simulationEmmi AI was founded in December 2024 and raised Austria's largest seed round a few months later; its 30-plus researchers now join Mistral, and Linz becomes a Mistral office.