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Wednesday, 11 February 2026
Photo: Kalakki at Malayalam Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5Fintech · IndiaZerodha's Rainmatter buys 51% of pension platform PensionBox for $2 millionRainmatter, the investment arm of Indian broker Zerodha, took majority control of Bengaluru's PensionBox in a $2 million deal that gave every early investor a full exit, while the founding brothers kept 48%.
Photo: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Slovinský / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Data & analytics · North AmericaApple acquired Waterloo graph database startup Kuzu, EU filing showsApple never announced the deal; it surfaced in a Digital Markets Act disclosure four months after the October 2025 agreement, by which time Kuzu had archived its open-source code and taken its website offline.
Photo: Patrick Nouhailler's… / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Fintech · North AmericaiCapital agrees to acquire Passthrough, a New York investor onboarding startupFounded by three Carta alumni, Passthrough automates subscription documents and KYC/AML checks for fund managers; iCapital wants it to onboard institutional as well as wealth investors.Tuesday, 10 February 2026
Photo: Lawrence Systems / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0AI · IsraelNebius agrees to buy agentic search startup Tavily in deal reported at $275 millionThe Amsterdam-based AI cloud company is adding a web search layer for AI agents to its platform; Calcalist reported that the price could reach $400 million if milestones are met.
Photo: Ann0611 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Mobility & logistics · IndiaBertelsmann takes 80% control of Indian trucking platform LetsTransportAn investor since 2018, the German media and services group bought out other backers and made LetsTransport the first company in a new Indian buy-and-build unit.
Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaHarbor Health acquires dementia care startup Rippl and expands into FloridaRippl's backers, including ARCH Venture Partners, General Catalyst and GV, are putting new money into the combined company rather than simply cashing out.
Photo: Unnerving duck / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · North AmericaLabelbox acquires AI sales agent startup Upcraft to grow its Alignerr expert networkLabelbox will point Upcraft's sales-automation agents at a new target: recruiting the more than 1 million domain experts who produce training data for AI labs.
Photo: InvadingInvader / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Commerce & marketing · North AmericaSalesforce agrees to acquire Cimulate to add AI product discovery to Agentforce CommerceThe Boston startup trains its retail search on simulated as well as real shopper journeys; Salesforce closed the purchase on March 3, 2026, without disclosing the price.
Photo: freddie marriage fredmarriage / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Cybersecurity · EuropeSophos acquires Arco Cyber, a bootstrapped UK security assurance startupFounded by two former Softcat executives and run with seven staff and no outside funding, Arco will power Sophos's push to sell CISO-level oversight through service providers.
Photo: Iliaswiki23 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Legal & compliance · North AmericaThomson Reuters acquires Noetica, a New York startup that benchmarks deal terms with AIThomson Reuters Ventures had backed Noetica's $22 million Series A; now the parent company is buying the startup outright to put its deal-term data inside CoCounsel.Monday, 9 February 2026
Photo: Donald Trung Quoc Don (Chữ Hán: 徵國單) - Wikimedia Commons - © / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Commerce & marketing · Middle EastUber agrees to buy Getir's Turkish food delivery business for $335 millionGetir was valued at close to $12 billion in 2022. Uber is paying $335 million in cash for its food delivery arm and will take over the grocery business in stages.
Photo: Richard Tanzer Fotografie / VeroPay / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Fintech · North AmericaMrBeast's Beast Industries acquires Step, a money app for teens and young adultsStep, backed by Stripe, Coatue, General Catalyst and a roster of celebrities, had raised more than $500 million including debt and says it has over 7 million users, an audience that overlaps with MrBeast's.
Photo: Daudi mukiibi / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Climate & agritech · EuropeDcycle buys Munich ESG reporting startup ESG-X to expand into GermanyThe Spanish sustainability data company took full ownership of the Antler-backed startup, whose AI tools automate CSRD materiality assessments and run on servers in German data centres.
Photo: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · Latin AmericaLaqus agrees to buy tokenized-asset trading platform Estar.finance from SMUEstar was the first platform Brazil's securities regulator authorized to trade tokenized assets, and the deal moves Laqus, a would-be rival to the B3 exchange, into secondary-market trading.
Wednesday, 4 February 2026
Photo: Z22 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · EuropeSmart Eye buys Swedish impairment-detection startup Sightic for SEK 60.5 million in sharesThe Gothenburg driver-monitoring company is paying about $6.4 million in new stock, plus an earn-out of up to SEK 50 million, for a 20-person firm founded by a former police officer and a psychologist from Sweden's security service.
Photo: Espacio Nolich / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaSemperis acquires MightyID to extend identity recovery to Okta and PingSemperis, long focused on Microsoft Active Directory and Entra ID, bought a 12- to 15-person Okta backup specialist that was spun out of a security consultancy in 2023.
Photo: Davidmoerike / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Consumer & media · EuropeSoundtrack acquires UK hospitality music service Ambie alongside Benelux provider TunifyThe Stockholm company that began life as Spotify Business bought two regional background-music providers at once, giving it teams in the UK and Benelux and a client list that includes Hyatt, Hilton and Rocco Forte.
Photo: Jadon Barnes xjadonx / Wikimedia Commons, CC0HR & work · North AmericaViventium acquires healthcare hiring platform Apploi to link recruiting with payrollThe payroll provider for nursing homes and other post-acute care operators bought a New York startup that had raised $38 million and works with more than 9,000 healthcare organisations.