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Friday, 17 April 2026
Photo: Unknown / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaUCB to acquire epilepsy cell therapy developer Neurona Therapeutics for up to $1.15 billionThe Belgian drugmaker, already a Neurona investor through UCB Ventures, will pay $650 million upfront for a one-time cell therapy injected into the brain to calm seizures.
Photo: RuinDig/Yuki Uchida / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0AI · North AmericaMicrosoft acquires Fintool, a Y Combinator AI startup for financial researchThe six-person team behind AI agents that build DCF models in Excel and earnings decks in PowerPoint is joining Microsoft's Office Product Group.Thursday, 16 April 2026
Image: SAGA DiagnosticsHealthtech & bio · North AmericaRoche's Foundation Medicine agrees to buy SAGA Diagnostics for up to $595 millionThe Lund University spin-out sells Pathlight, a blood test for leftover cancer that Medicare already covers for early-stage breast cancer. Its main 2021 funding round was about $12 million.
Photo: Wpcpey / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Consumer & media · East AsiaBASE acquires fan video-call startup Port for ¥1.37 billion (about $8.6 million)The Tokyo-listed online shop builder bought all of Port, maker of the Talkport one-on-one creator video-call app, to sell more services and digital content alongside physical goods.
Tuesday, 14 April 2026
Photo: Eric Hunt / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Enterprise software · North AmericaAppDirect acquires Toronto's PartnerStack in a deal reported at over $150 millionPartnerStack had not raised a dollar since its 2021 Series B and cut a fifth of its staff in 2023; it sold to AppDirect mostly for stock, according to a source who spoke to BetaKit.
Photo: B.alotaby / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · Middle EastFalak Holding acquires majority stake in applied AI company KernelThe Riyadh venture builder took control of Kernel's Saudi and Jordanian operations, including its AI Startup Lab, but will let the company keep running on its own.
Photo: Nesnad / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Commerce & marketing · Latin AmericaInstacart acquires Colombia-founded grocery tech platform InstaleapInstaleap runs online ordering, picking and delivery for about 100 grocers in nearly 30 countries outside North America, giving Instacart a ready-made route into international retail.
Photo: Morgan from Montreal, Quebec, Canada / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · North AmericaSanas acquires real-time voice transformation startup Tomato.aiThe deal, Sanas's third acquisition in under two years, brings in Tomato.ai's carrier and VoIP integrations and puts co-founder Ofer Ronen in charge of Sanas's global telecom strategy.Monday, 13 April 2026
Photo: OUSENT / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · IsraelCredo agrees to buy Israeli silicon photonics startup DustPhotonics for up to $1.3 billionCredo is paying $750 million in cash plus stock for a roughly 70-person chip designer whose photonic circuits already sit in transceivers at hyperscale AI clusters, bringing a key optical part in-house.
Photo: Unknown / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainCybersecurity · North AmericaFortreum acquires Kovr.AI, a FedRAMP-authorized AI compliance platformA firm that audits companies for FedRAMP and CMMC is buying a platform that helps companies get ready for those audits, less than a year after Kovr.AI came out of stealth with $3.6 million.
Photo: HaeB / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · North AmericaOpenAI acquires the team behind Hiro, Ethan Bloch's AI personal finance appHiro is shutting its app a week after the deal and deleting user data rather than passing it to OpenAI, which is hiring the team, not the product. It is OpenAI's second personal-finance acquihire in about six months.
Photo: Killarnee / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Proptech · EuropeOtis takes majority stake in WeMaintain, a French elevator-maintenance start-upOtis, which calls service the foundation of its business, now controls a maintenance company that services other makers' lifts too, and is leaving it to run independently under its own name.
Thursday, 9 April 2026
Photo: Travis Wise / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · North AmericaCisco to acquire Galileo, the AI agent evaluation and observability startup, for SplunkCisco plans to fold Galileo, which raised $68 million and counts Comcast and Twilio as customers, into Splunk Observability Cloud to monitor and put guardrails on AI agents.
Photo: Linason Blessing / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0HR & work · North AmericaGusto acquires Mosey to add state and local compliance for small businessesThe payroll provider plans to turn Mosey, whose clients included Chime and Headspace, into Gusto Business Compliance for its more than 400,000 small-business customers.
Photo: Arunvrparavur / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · North AmericaMotorola Solutions acquires Hyper, a startup whose AI agents answer non-emergency 911 callsHyper sold less than a year after leaving stealth with a $6.3 million seed round. Its AI handles the non-emergency calls that make up more than two-thirds of the volume at many US 911 centres.Wednesday, 8 April 2026
Photo: Chris Olszewski / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Commerce & marketing · OceaniaCanva acquires Ortto, the marketing automation company formerly called AutopilotOrtto, which has more than 11,000 customers in 190 countries and had raised about $32 million, will keep running its product while its team joins Canva Grow, Canva's marketing product.
Photo: Victorgrigas / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0AI · OceaniaCanva acquires Simtheory, the Sharkey brothers' AI agent platform, ahead of Canva CreateCanva bought the Sydney-founded AI agent startup alongside Ortto, a second company run by the same two founders, and said Simtheory would shape the AI features it planned to show at Canva Create a week later.