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Thursday, 30 April 2026
Photo: 妖精書士 / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Commerce & marketing · East AsiaZOZO buys fragrance subscription startup High Link for ¥4.99bn ($31.9m)Fashion e-commerce group ZOZO paid about ¥4.99bn (about $31.9m) for the company behind the Coloria perfume subscription, its first step into the fragrance market.
Photo: Namaste jinx / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · North AmericaPalo Alto Networks agrees to acquire AI gateway startup PortkeyPortkey had closed a $15 million Series A only ten weeks earlier; Palo Alto Networks is turning its gateway, which routes company traffic to more than 3,000 AI models and tools, into the control point of its Prisma AIRS platform.Wednesday, 29 April 2026
Photo: FlippyFlink / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · IsraelMoonPay acquires Israeli key-management startup Sodot and launches an institutional businessBloomberg valued the all-stock deal at about $100 million, more than 20 times the $4.5 million Sodot had raised; its technology becomes the base of a new unit run by former acting CFTC chair Caroline Pham.
Photo: U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Tory Cusimano / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainAI · North AmericaAugment acquires stealth startup Merlin to take its AI teammate into wholesale distributionMerlin had not launched publicly, yet its quote-to-cash software was already used by distributors with more than $20 billion in combined revenue, including Reece and Ewing Outdoor Supply.Tuesday, 28 April 2026
Photo: Unknown photographer / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainHealthtech & bio · North AmericaAzra AI acquires lung cancer screening software maker Thynk HealthThe combined company's software runs in hundreds of hospitals, including five of the ten largest US health systems, and Thynk's chief executive becomes Azra's COO.
Photo: Tatiana Lapina veila / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Cybersecurity · IsraelSilverfort acquires Fabrix Security, a year-old Israeli startup building AI agents for identityFabrix had 14 employees and an $8 million seed round behind it when Silverfort bought it; neither side disclosed terms, but Calcalist estimated the price in the tens of millions of dollars.
Photo: Tirza van Dijk tirzavandijk / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Cybersecurity · North AmericaSocket acquires Secure Annex, a one-person startup that watches browser and editor extensionsSecure Annex had a single employee, its founder John Tuckner, yet counted Reddit and Brave among its customers; Socket bought it to take its supply-chain checks beyond open-source packages.Monday, 27 April 2026
Photo: Unknown / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaEli Lilly agrees to buy Ajax Therapeutics for up to $2.3 billionLilly, which calls itself a founding strategic investor in Ajax, is paying for a blood-cancer drug that is still in Phase 1 and has not yet shown proof-of-concept data.
Photo: Jim Barton / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Travel & hospitality · IndiaRBS acquires Indian hotel guest engagement startup ZekoThe US hospitality software maker, which serves more than 4,800 properties, will build Zeko's AI upselling and WhatsApp tools into its hotel, restaurant and retail products.
Thursday, 23 April 2026
Photo: Bram Willems / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · EuropeAdyen agrees to buy Berlin loyalty startup Talon.One for €750 millionAdyen will pay €750 million (about $877 million) in cash for a promotions engine expected to reach roughly €60 million in annual recurring revenue by the end of 2026, and Talon.One's founders will put part of their proceeds into Adyen stock.
Photo: USDAgov / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainCybersecurity · IsraelCyera acquires Ryft, a two-year-old Israeli data lake startup built for AI agentsRyft had raised only $8 million and employed about 15 people; Israeli press put the price at $100 million to $130 million, and its CEO will now lead AI security at the $9 billion Cyera.
Photo: Mironit9 / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Cybersecurity · East AsiaLayerX acquires AI penetration testing startup AgenticSec in its first acquisitionTokyo AI company LayerX used its first-ever acquisition to enter security, buying a 10-month-old startup whose AI agents run penetration tests starting from nothing more than an IP address.
Photo: PENG Yanan (Neo-Jay) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Legal & compliance · EuropeLegora acquires Stockholm legal research startup QuraThe Swedish legal AI company, valued at $5.55 billion after its Series D, bought a ten-person team whose AI research engine is live in 27 jurisdictions.Tuesday, 21 April 2026
Photo: Arunvrparavur / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Travel & hospitality · North AmericaOpenTable acquires Montreal restaurant booking platform LibroLibro, a Montreal company spun out of the RestoMontreal guides in 2014, brings more than 3,000 restaurants to OpenTable and will keep its own brand.
Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaProtecht acquires VISO TRUST, an AI platform for third-party cyber riskAustralian GRC company Protecht made the deal a year after taking a US$280 million investment from PSG Equity, buying a Bain Capital Ventures-backed startup that automates vendor security reviews.Monday, 20 April 2026
Photo: Paul Sableman / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaEli Lilly to acquire Kelonia Therapeutics for up to $7 billion in cashKelonia, which publicly raised only a $50 million Series A, makes CAR-T cells inside the patient's body. Lilly will pay $3.25 billion upfront.
Photo: FR / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Consumer & media · East Asiajig.jp to buy dating app maker Bachelor Date for ¥3.48 billion (about $21.9 million)The Tokyo dating app, which uses AI to set users up on dates instead of having them swipe, was already profitable, with ¥265 million in operating profit last fiscal year.
Photo: Tungsten / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainEdtech · North AmericaCoursedog acquires ClassRanked to add course evaluations to its college softwareClassRanked began as a course-review site built by Duke students in 2018. Its founder will now run Coursedog's Assessment Cloud.