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Wednesday, 19 August 2026
Photo: Conor McCabe / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · North AmericaStripe agrees to acquire AI model router OpenRouter in its largest deal yetStripe did not name a price, but The New York Times reported about $7.5 billion, nearly six times the $1.3 billion valuation OpenRouter was reported to have reached less than three months earlier.
Photo: Carsten Steger / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · North AmericaMunich Re agrees to buy cyber insurtech At-Bay at a $575 million enterprise valueThe price is well under half the $1.35 billion valuation At-Bay reached in 2021, and the buyer is a long-time partner: Munich Re's HSB unit has backed At-Bay since its founding.
Photo: Larry D. Moore / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaBrinqa acquires pentest reporting platform PlexTracBrinqa ranks which security exposures to fix first; PlexTrac's software lets pentesters prove a fix actually worked. Both companies were backed by Insight Partners.
Photo: Basil D Soufi / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaCribl buys Radiant Security's AI SOC technology in its second security deal of 2026Cribl took the technology and intellectual property behind Radiant's AI security operations product rather than the whole company, and plans to rebuild it as an application on its telemetry platform.
Photo: Cun Cun / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaKodeon acquires Montreal meditation app Breethe in its largest deal so farBreethe never raised equity, grew on its own revenue to more than $50 million in lifetime sales and over 18 million users, and sold for what a co-founder called an eight-figure sum.Tuesday, 18 August 2026
Photo: Daniel Kraft / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Healthtech & bio · EuropeAepsy acquires Zurich workplace-health startup KinasticThe deal joins two Zurich companies that have worked together since Aepsy's early days, when Kinastic was one of its first platform partners. Combined, they will serve more than 150 Swiss employers.
Photo: amtec_photos / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Fintech · North AmericaCheckr acquires income-verification startup Truv to enter government benefits checksTruv's payroll and bank connections reach 96% of the U.S. workforce, and it already verifies income for state agencies running Medicaid and SNAP, a market Checkr had not served before.
Photo: Santeri Viinamäki / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaFortinet acquires AI security startup Virtue AIVirtue AI was founded by AI safety researchers including Bo Li and Dawn Song and raised $30 million in 2025. Fortinet said the price it paid was immaterial to its business.
Thursday, 13 August 2026
Photo: Mark Sengstbratl/Dynatrace / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0AI · North AmericaDynatrace to acquire AI observability startup Arize for $915 millionThe deal joins a tool AI teams use to test models and agents before release with Dynatrace's software for watching applications in production, and both Arize founders move to Dynatrace.
Photo: Beyond My Ken / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · North AmericaCiti agrees to acquire rewards platform Kard to personalize card offersKard's API lets banks and fintechs serve merchant-funded cash-back offers based on card transaction data. Citi wants to put it in front of its roughly 70 million U.S. cardmembers.
Photo: Basile Morin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Commerce & marketing · Southeast AsiaGraas acquires product data startup Trustana alongside $17 million Series BThe Singapore retail AI company bought a Temasek-incubated startup that cleans up product catalogues for retailers such as David Jones and Chemist Warehouse, to give its AI agents better data to work with.
Image: CyberPilotCybersecurity · EuropeSEPPmail acquires Danish security-awareness startup CyberPilotThe Swiss email-encryption vendor bought the Aarhus training and phishing-simulation company to cover the risk its software cannot: the employee who clicks. It is the second deal in a plan, backed by LEA Partners, to build a European-only email security platform.
Monday, 10 August 2026
Photo: Unknown / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaJazz Pharmaceuticals to buy Actio Biosciences for $820 million upfrontJazz is paying for one drug: ABS-1230, an oral pill for a rare childhood epilepsy with no approved treatment. Actio's other programs will be spun out into a new company in which Jazz takes a minority stake.
Photo: Brandon Leon / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Climate & agritech · North AmericaFM acquires wildfire risk startup FortressFireFortressFire models whether a single building is likely to catch fire in a wildfire, and will keep its brand and founder-CEO Michael Ashker as an independent division of the commercial property insurer.
Photo: ESA_events / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Mobility & logistics · IndiaGalaxEye acquires Bengaluru spacecraft engineering startup StarOpsThe deal gives the OptoSAR satellite maker its own qualified satellite bus platforms in the 50 kg, 150 kg and 250 kg classes, after the startup lost contact with its first satellite, Drishti, launched in May.Thursday, 6 August 2026
Photo: Derrick Coetzee from Berkeley, CA, USA / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Enterprise software · North AmericaNetApp acquires VMware disaster recovery startup JetStream SoftwareJetStream lets companies protect VMware virtual machines on almost any storage and recover them in the cloud, giving NetApp a way into VMware shops that do not use its hardware.
Photo: Elaodou Anudyem Lukas / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Commerce & marketing · EuropeRebuy acquires Zeercle, the in-store used-book buy-back startupThe deal gives Berlin's Rebuy its first physical buying channel through bookshops such as Hugendubel and Mondadori, and ends Zeercle's partnership with Rebuy's rival Momox.