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Wednesday, 8 April 2026
Photo: Josephenus P. Riley / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · IndiaExotel acqui-hires Dubverse's voice AI team, co-founders to lead analytics and AIThe Bengaluru cloud communications company took on the team behind the Kalaari-backed AI dubbing startup, putting its two co-founders in charge of conversation analytics and its wider AI work.
Photo: Martine Hamilton Knight / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Fintech · EuropeExperian acquires Konfir, the UK income and employment verification startupExperian had used Konfir's technology since 2023, and its payroll data already sat in more than 30% of Konfir's checks; the London startup now joins Experian's verifications business.
Monday, 6 April 2026
Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Healthtech & bio · Latin AmericaMexican health startup Koltin acquires home-care provider Last Mile CareKoltin started out as a Last Mile Care client; now it is buying the home-visit provider to add infusions, therapies and post-discharge care at home to its insurance and telemedicine offer for older adults.
Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Fintech · AfricaSMC DAO buys Nigerian crypto off-ramp Bread Africa in all-cash six-figure dealIt is the second time founder Iam Etefia has sold to the same crypto collective: SMC DAO paid $250,000 for his Peniwallet and Peniremit in 2023.Thursday, 2 April 2026
Photo: Rjcastillo / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Commerce & marketing · Latin AmericaChilean fintech Haulmer buys Apanio, an online-store builder for small businessesApanio's founders weighed about 40 possible buyers and chose Haulmer even though it did not make the highest offer; the bootstrapped payments company will give the store builder free to its merchants.
Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Climate & agritech · EuropeLucy Group buys Berlin startup Nuventura, maker of SF6-free switchgearNuventura, which raised more than €35 million, replaced the potent greenhouse gas SF6 with dry air in grid switchgear, just as EU rules began banning the gas in new equipment.
Thursday, 26 March 2026
Image: BioniqHealthtech & bio · EuropeHerbalife agrees to buy Bioniq's personalised supplement business for $55 millionThe $55 million price is paid over five years, with only $10 million at closing, and up to $95 million more depends on performance. Cristiano Ronaldo, a Herbalife partner, is a Bioniq shareholder.
Photo: Samson Ssemakadde / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Enterprise software · EuropeEversports and MATCHi merge to build a European booking platform for racket sports and fitnessBacked by Verdane, which had invested in both companies, the combined group links more than 9,000 sports and fitness venues and is betting on padel and Pilates.
Photo: Maj. Christopher Vasquez, USAF / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainCybersecurity · North AmericaRapid7 acquires Kenzo Security to bring AI agents into its detection and response serviceKenzo, founded in 2024 and backed by a $4.5 million seed round, runs teams of AI agents that investigate security alerts; Rapid7 said an average customer cut investigation time by 94%.Wednesday, 25 March 2026
Photo: Aleks Dorohovich aleksdorohovich / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Commerce & marketing · OceaniaCanva acquires Melbourne out-of-home ad tech startup Doohly for a reported A$30MThe deal takes Canva into out-of-home advertising for the first time, giving it software that runs ad screens in shops, petrol stations and airports.
Photo: Norbert Levajsics levajsics / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Mobility & logistics · India91trucks acquires Indiyanet, operator of vehicle research sites Motorfloor and TrucksfloorIndiyanet was barely two years old when 91trucks bought it, yet it said its two commercial vehicle discovery sites already ranked among the top three in India by traffic and volume.
Image: TractiveConsumer & media · EuropeBending Spoons agrees to acquire Austrian GPS pet-tracker maker TractiveThe Milan-based owner of Evernote, Vimeo and WeTransfer made its first move into hardware-backed software, buying a pet-tracking company that had grown mostly without outside funding.
Photo: Arunvrparavur / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Enterprise software · AfricaKlipboard acquires South African field sales platform SkynamoSkynamo, which started in 2012 as Honeybee, processes more than $70 million in orders a month for nearly 1,000 manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors.
Photo: Velvet / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · EuropeOVHcloud agrees to buy Paris generative AI developer Dragon LLM in its first acquisitionThe French cloud provider's first-ever acquisition brings in a former financial-translation company that pivoted to building its own language models, and launches an OVHcloud AI lab.Tuesday, 24 March 2026
Photo: Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Scalable Grid Engine / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Cybersecurity · North AmericaDatabricks reveals it bought data security startup Antimatter as it launches LakewatchThe deal closed in 2025 but was only made public when Databricks entered the security market, and Antimatter co-founder Andrew Krioukov now leads the team building its new SIEM product.
Photo: Acabashi / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaDeleteMe acquires Block Party, Tracy Chou's social media privacy toolChou built Block Party after using DeleteMe herself to scrub her data from brokers and finding nothing comparable for social accounts; now the two services will sit under one company.
Photo: Tony Webster / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Legal & compliance · North AmericaEpiq acquires LitLingo, an Austin startup whose AI flags risky employee messagesLitLingo's software scans email and chat in more than 75 languages and can catch a problematic message as it is written, before it is sent; it now sits inside the Epiq Service Cloud.