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Wednesday, 7 October 2026
Image: M-KOPAFintech · EuropeM-KOPA buys Finnish phone-locking software maker KilpiTek for $8 millionThe Kenyan smartphone lender quietly closed the deal in March; UK filings now show it paid a third in cash and the rest mostly in its own shares to own the software that locks phones when customers miss payments.
Photo: Luke Ma from Taipei, Taiwan ROC / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · East AsiaCoconala buys 51% of AI consultancy Acrosstudio for ¥872 million ($5.8 million)The Tokyo skills marketplace is making the five-year-old AI implementation firm, which booked about $7.5 million in revenue last year, the core of the new AI division it set up in September.
Photo: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Slovinský / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaTiny buys Oso Cloud's assets for C$1.9 million as Oso's founder and team join TemporalA startup that raised about $26 million from investors including Sequoia and Felicis sold its authorization product for C$1.9 million (about $1.3 million), while its CEO and part of the team went to Temporal to work on AI agent security.
Photo: Free-Photos from Pixabay / Wikimedia Commons, CC0AI · EuropeBooking platform anny acquires Cologne AI phone-agent startup HiDeskHiDesk was less than a year old, already profitable and growing about 20% a month when its neighbour in Cologne bought it. Neither company has ever taken venture capital.
Photo: MÁV Zrt. / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0AI · EuropeAutomation Anywhere agrees to buy Norwegian voice AI company Boost.ai from Nordic CapitalThe automation software maker is adding a customer-facing chat and voice platform built for banks, insurers and telecoms. Boost.ai reported revenue of €25 million for 2025.
Photo: Bryn Holmes / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaFresh Clinics acquires Spakinect, adding a telehealth exam network for US med spasSpakinect's nurse practitioners have carried out more than 1.56 million remote Good Faith Exams in 14 years. Fresh Clinics wants to sell that alongside medical directorship and product supply as states tighten med-spa rules.
Image: Neolegal (press release)Legal & compliance · North AmericaNeolegal acquires Leya to sell legal help as an employee benefit in QuebecThe Montreal legal tech firm picked up a platform that more than 50,000 people already reach through their employer, insurer or bank, pushing further into group insurance.
Photo: 4300streetcar / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Fintech · North AmericaProsperum Fintech Holdings acquires AI trading-signals platform Yellow TunnelThe Chicago holding company will merge Yellow Tunnel with its options newsletter Option Hotline to build an "Investor Terminal" for retail traders.Tuesday, 6 October 2026
Photo: KruegA / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Commerce & marketing · North AmericaUber agrees to buy workplace catering marketplace ezCater for $2.3 billion in cashezCater handled more than $2.5 billion in gross bookings over the past year with average orders above $400, and Uber says the Boston company is already profitable on an adjusted basis.
Photo: Artem Beliaikin from Moscow, Russia / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Commerce & marketing · North AmericaAlgolia buys Velou to add AI product-data enrichment beneath its retail searchVelou's six-person team joins Algolia, whose search platform handles nearly two trillion queries a year. The startup's multimodal AI turns catalog photos and text into structured product attributes that shoppers and AI agents can search on.
Photo: Fred E. Mang, Jr. / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainFintech · North AmericaAnchorage Digital buys payouts platform Routable to push stablecoins into corporate paymentsThe federally chartered crypto bank is buying a fiat payouts company backed by Sam Altman, betting that Fortune 500 finance teams want to pay suppliers in dollars, euros or stablecoins from one screen.
Photo: Gary Todd / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Fintech · EuropeSpain's Bcas buys Berlin student-finance startup Lendorse in its first move abroadThe deal makes Bcas, by its own account, the only European platform running income share agreements in both Spain and Germany, and it wants Germany to be one of its main growth engines from 2027.
Photo: Geographer / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Healthtech & bio · IndiaHoola Health acquires UpTodd to build a paid programme for a child's first 1,000 daysFour months after raising $5 million and dropping the BabyMD name, the Bengaluru paediatric clinic chain bought a parenting app with more than 10,000 paying customers and kept all three of its founders.
Image: InteleTravelTravel & hospitality · North AmericaInteleTravel acquires Honolulu group-booking startup 40Hammocks, will relaunch it as GrouprThe host agency is aiming the hotel room-block software at wedding planners and small-group organisers, a segment it says enterprise booking platforms price out, and at its own network of 145,000 advisors.
Photo: Syced / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · EuropePersonio acquires Berlin spend-management startup Circula in its largest deal yetThe Munich HR software company is folding expenses, corporate cards and tax-optimised benefits into its payroll platform. More than 500 companies already used both products.
Photo: Mr.ちゅらさん / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Commerce & marketing · North AmericaReactiv acquires New York rival Kin Commerce, adding Steve Madden and Chubbies as app clientsThe Toronto mobile-commerce startup paid cash up front for Kin's technology, IP and customers. Kin's leadership is not coming along: its team is moving on to a new AI marketing startup.
Photo: German Embassy London / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0HR & work · EuropeSAP agrees to buy Belgian skills-intelligence startup TechWolf in record Belgian VC-backed exitTechWolf says it is the largest acquisition of a venture-backed software company in Belgian history. SAP, already an investor, wants its skills graph at the centre of SuccessFactors and its Joule agents.
Photo: VeronicaTherese / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0HR & work · EuropeUnit4 acquires Napta to add skills-based staffing to its ERP for consulting firmsThe Dutch ERP vendor is buying a Paris startup that matches consultants to projects, and is letting it keep its brand and keep selling to firms that run rival ERP systems.