We tracked 11 startup acquisitions announced between 2–8 February 2026, across 3 regions. Only 1 disclosed a price, adding up to $6.4m; the rest kept terms private, which is normal for venture-backed exits.
The largest was Smart Eye’s $6.4m purchase of Sightic.
AI accounted for 3 deals and North America for 7.
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.Tuesday, 3 February 2026
Photo: WAO Coworking / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · North AmericaActiveCampaign acquires AI agent evaluation startup Feedback IntelligenceThe marketing automation company bought the Berkeley startup to measure why its AI agents succeed or fail in conversations with users, and plans to feed those findings back into its Active Intelligence engine.
Photo: Rob Farrow / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Travel & hospitality · North AmericaCanary Technologies buys the assets of Dallas hotel mobile key pioneer OpenKeyThe San Francisco hotel software company is using OpenKey's door-lock partnerships to get its mobile room keys working on more lock models and brands.
Photo: Wikideas1 / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Enterprise software · IndiaHORIBA buys Indian lab-grown diamond startup Pristine Deeptech to build an R&D hubThe Japanese instrument maker's Indian arm took full ownership of a seven-person Gujarat startup that researches diamond as a material for power chips and quantum sensors.
Photo: Hipersyl / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Enterprise software · North AmericaNava acquires Beam, the cash assistance platform that has paid out more than $400 millionThe government technology firm is adding Beam's case management, claims and payments software to Strata, its open-source toolkit for agencies that run benefit programs.
Photo: Calistemon / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Proptech · North AmericaPurlin merges with home offer marketplace Final Offer to form Purlin EnterprisesThe real estate AI company and the consumer offer-negotiation platform are combining under Purlin's founder, pairing software for agents and brokerages with a marketplace that shows buyers and sellers the offers on a home.