We tracked 22 startup acquisitions announced between 9–15 February 2026, across 7 regions. Only 6 disclosed a price, adding up to $1.23bn; the rest kept terms private, which is normal for venture-backed exits.
The largest was Grab’s $425m purchase of Stash, which had raised $657m. Uber paid $335m for Getir.
Fintech accounted for 7 deals and North America for 10.
Thursday, 12 February 2026
Photo: Chainwit. / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Fintech · North AmericaGrab agrees to buy US investing app Stash at a $425 million enterprise valueSoutheast Asia's ride-hailing and payments group is buying a US subscription investing app with more than $5 billion in assets, at a value far below the roughly $1.4 billion Stash was worth in 2021.
Image: FlockFintech · EuropeAdmiral Group agrees to buy fleet insurtech Flock for £80 millionThe UK motor insurer is paying £80 million (about $109 million) for the equity of Flock, a London start-up that prices commercial fleet cover with AI models trained on live driving data, after two years of working together.
Photo: Anatoli Axelrod / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0Cybersecurity · IsraelCheck Point acquires Israeli exposure management start-up CyclopsCyclops was the largest of three Israeli start-ups Check Point bought on the day it reported 2025 results; Calcalist put the price at about $85 million.
Photo: Chainwit. / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Legal & compliance · Middle EastAscentium acquires Clara, the largest corporate service provider in Abu Dhabi's ADGMSingapore's Ascentium bought Clara, a legal-tech start-up that manages about 2,000 companies in the UAE's two common-law financial centres, to gain a foothold in the Middle East.
Photo: www.Pixel.la Free Stock Photos / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Cybersecurity · IsraelCheck Point acquires Cyata, an Israeli start-up that secures AI agentsCheck Point bought Cyata about a year and a half after its CEO, a former Check Point employee, founded it to track and control the AI agents running inside companies.
Image: AcuvityCybersecurity · North AmericaProofpoint acquires Acuvity to bring AI agent security and governance into its platformAcuvity, a three-year-old Sunnyvale startup backed by a $9 million seed round, monitors how employees and AI agents use AI tools, down to MCP servers and models running on a laptop.
Photo: Daudi mukiibi / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Enterprise software · North AmericaSeismic to merge with sales enablement rival Highspot under Permira controlHighspot, valued at $3.5 billion in 2022 after raising $648 million, will fold into its largest competitor, with Seismic's chief executive in charge and Permira as the controlling shareholder.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.