We tracked 17 startup acquisitions announced between 3–9 August 2026, across 7 regions. Only 3 disclosed a price, adding up to $3.79bn; the rest kept terms private, which is normal for venture-backed exits.
The largest was Visa’s $2.4bn purchase of BioCatch. Bending Spoons paid $1.29bn for Airtable.
Fintech accounted for 5 deals and North America for 7.
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.Wednesday, 5 August 2026
Photo: Coolbrizzy / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Commerce & marketing · AfricaCloud9 buys Chpter in all-stock deal, reuniting founders with startup they leftLess than a year after leaving Chpter to start Cloud9, Tesh Mbaabu and Mesongo Sibuti have bought it back with shares, adding about 4,500 social-commerce merchants to their business bank.
Photo: Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Fintech · North AmericaGallagher acquires Vancouver tenant insurance broker Apollo Insurance SolutionsApollo sells renters insurance inside the leasing software landlords already use, including Yardi and RentMoola, and reaches more than 500,000 customers through about 150 partner organizations.
Photo: Chris Rycroft from Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · North AmericaKlaviyo buys AI customer success startup Agency, names founder Elias Torres product chiefThe deal reunites Klaviyo co-founder Andrew Bialecki with Elias Torres, the Drift co-founder who hired him as one of his first engineers at Performable more than 15 years ago.
Photo: Arunvrparavur / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Commerce & marketing · IndiaReliance Retail buys Furrl's AI fashion styling technology in all-cash dealFurrl's software turns plain catalogue photos into complete, shoppable outfits, and its founder Esha Tiwary will now lead new AI projects at Reliance Retail.Tuesday, 4 August 2026
Photo: Francesco Ungaro / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Enterprise software · North AmericaBending Spoons agrees to buy Airtable for $1.285 billion in all-cash dealThe price is a fraction of the roughly $11 billion Airtable was valued at in 2021, even though the no-code platform now brings in about $480 million in annual recurring revenue.
Photo: Mikepascoe / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaHinge Health to buy digestive care startup Cylinder Health for $105 millionThe musculoskeletal care company is paying cash for Cylinder, formerly Vivante Health, to add gut health to a single app it plans to launch in 2027.
Photo: Larry D. Moore / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0AI · North AmericaAnaconda acquires AI security and compliance startup Enkrypt AIEnkrypt AI's scans of 25,000 MCP servers turned up more than 143,000 vulnerabilities affecting 73% of them; Anaconda is folding its guardrails and red teaming into its platform.
Photo: Rayoifuego / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · Latin AmericaGrupo Cibest completes purchase of Colombian payroll-lending fintech AvistaThe Bancolombia parent bought all of Avista, a seven-year-old lender to pensioners and older workers that has disbursed about COP 2.9 trillion (roughly $900 million) in payroll-deduction loans.
Photo: Smiley.toerist / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Cybersecurity · East AsiaLG Uplus buys security monitoring firm Pago Networks in first deal in seven yearsThe Korean telecom operator's first acquisition since it bought LG HelloVision in 2019 brings in a managed detection and response provider active in seven Southeast Asian countries.
Photo: BSEINDIA / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Fintech · IndiaTimes Network acquires retail investing platform OpiGo to power ET NOW ProThe deal turns OpiGo, a four-year-old stock-advice marketplace with nearly 100,000 downloads, into a core part of ET NOW's new paid subscription for retail investors.Monday, 3 August 2026
Photo: Missvain / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Fintech · IsraelVisa to acquire Israeli fraud-prevention company BioCatch for $2.4 billionThe all-cash price is nearly double the $1.3 billion valuation at which Permira took control of the behavioural-biometrics company in 2024.
Photo: Daniel L. Lu (user:dllu) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Enterprise software · EuropeApple acquires Czech plasma simulation startup PlasmaSolveA notice on the European Commission's Digital Markets Act site showed Apple taking over the Brno company behind MatSight, software that models the kind of vapour-deposition coatings Apple already applies to its devices.
Photo: The Norwegian Government, Neue Design Studio / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainCybersecurity · IsraelDeel acquires Israeli deepfake-detection startup ClarityDeel was already running Clarity's software to catch fake job candidates before it bought the company; Israeli press put the price at about $40-50 million in cash and Deel shares.
Photo: JTJPG / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Fintech · North AmericaMeridianLink acquires Credit Mountain to coach declined loan applicantsCredit Mountain's software, already used by nearly 40 community lenders, becomes the basis of MeridianLink Pathway, a product that follows up with borrowers after a loan is turned down.
Photo: Oxfordian Kissuth / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Mobility & logistics · EuropeTIMOCOM takes full ownership of truck-driver app maker AparkadoThe freight marketplace operator, a shareholder since January 2025, bought out the Cologne startup behind LKW.APP, which reports more than 85,000 active users in 44 countries.