We tracked 39 startup acquisitions announced between 5–11 October 2026, across 6 regions. Only 7 disclosed a price, adding up to $4.32bn; the rest kept terms private, which is normal for venture-backed exits.
The largest was Uber’s $2.3bn purchase of ezCater, which had raised $420m. Shionogi paid $2bn for IntraBio.
AI accounted for 8 deals and North America for 23. 3 deals were acquihires.
Friday, 9 October 2026
Photo: Sangitiana Fararano / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0AI · North AmericaXMax agrees to buy vertical GaN chip startup Hexa Creation for $4.1 millionThe former furniture seller Nova LifeStyle, renamed XMax last year, is paying about $4.1 million in cash for a startup built on university-licensed patents for 1200V gallium nitride power transistors aimed at AI data centres.
Photo: Tim Sheerman-Chase / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · EuropeOxford Metrics buys Move AI's assets for £525,000, a fraction of the $17.5m it raisedThe London markerless motion-capture startup counted Epic Games, Disney and Nike as customers, but its technology, patents and team went to Vicon's parent for £525,000 (about $700,000) in cash.
Photo: Myotus / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0AI · North AmericaApple acqui-hires Huxe, the AI audio startup founded by former Google NotebookLM developersApple gets the right to hire Huxe staff and a licence to its technology. The deal only surfaced on the EU's Digital Markets Act register, four months after Apple notified Brussels and shortly after Huxe had switched off its app.
Image: ChimoneyFintech · North AmericaCapitalSage completes Chimoney acquisition five months after the payments startup shut downChimoney stopped processing payments in May after running out of capital. Its new owner has restarted the business, relaunched its consumer app as remittance service Tiki, and the founder says every investor was repaid in full.
Photo: Marvel44 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Edtech · North AmericaCarnegie Learning buys AI writing platform Ethiqly from Owl VenturesCarnegie Learning bought a writing tool designed so that AI never writes for the student, and plans to put it alongside its Lenses on Literature curriculum for grades 6 to 12.
Photo: Matthew (WMF) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Developer tools · North AmericaCloudflare takes on Ryan Dahl's Deno team and will wind down the Deno runtime and Deno DeployDeno Deploy will close in six months and the runtime gets one more year of fixes, as the Node.js creator's team merges its self-hosted Workers clone, celld, into Cloudflare's open-source workerd.
Photo: Virginia State Parks staff / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Commerce & marketing · North AmericaHightouch acquires Strata, an AI agent that builds marketing integrations without codeFive months after raising $150 million at a $2.75 billion valuation, Hightouch bought a two-year-old startup started by three early Iterable employees to cut the engineering work behind its connectors.
Photo: Calistemon / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Proptech · North AmericaPLACE agrees to acquire mortgage AI startup Ardley, two weeks after buying MaxwellArdley, founded by a former Fannie Mae architect, mines lenders' existing loan books for refinance and home-equity offers. It is the third deal PLACE has announced since mid-August.
Image: Source.agClimate & agritech · EuropeSource.ag acquires Optimal to add autonomous climate control for greenhousesAmsterdam-based Source.ag, whose software already runs in more than 500 greenhouses, is buying the London startup whose AI grew 13% more crop with 27% less energy than a benchmark Dutch grower. Its first autonomous deployments go live this winter.Thursday, 8 October 2026
Photo: Satheesh Sankaran / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Fintech · GlobalAnyflo exits stealth and acqui-hires Native, a Bitcoin lending team on SuiThe Mysten Labs-incubated stablecoin payments startup launched at TOKEN2049 in Singapore with Native's team already on board. Native had raised just under $2 million and placed in the top five of 630 projects at Sui Overflow 2025.
Photo: King of Hearts / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Legal & compliance · EuropeBehavox acquires Zurich regtech Apiax to add cross-border compliance rules to its platformFour months after raising $175 million from BlackRock's HPS partly to fund acquisitions, Behavox is buying a Swiss startup that turns financial regulation in more than 200 jurisdictions into machine-readable rules.
Photo: Txllxt TxllxT / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Travel & hospitality · AfricaBellair Road and Janic Capital lead consortium buying South African booking platform LekkeSlaapFounders Jonathan Womersley and Marcel van de Ghinste are cashing out 17 years after starting in a garage with R12,000, selling to a group backed by the families of FirstRand co-founders GT Ferreira and Laurie Dippenaar.
Photo: forextime.com / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Fintech · North AmericaThoma Bravo-backed BlueMatrix agrees to buy Aiera to pipe Wall Street research into AI toolsAiera was funded by a consortium of ten big research providers that wanted control over how AI systems use their reports. It is now being sold to the company that many of them already use to publish those reports.
Photo: W.carter / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaPritzker-backed Emergence acquires Charlotte patient-outcomes software maker Clinect HealthcareEmergence buys software companies to hold rather than sell, and Clinect, a 14-year-old company that tracks how patients fare after treatment, is its latest healthcare deal.
Photo: Zhongia wSIE / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Travel & hospitality · North AmericaGoodwin acquires in-flight catering startup DineUp to add meal orders to charter bookingsThe Columbus charter-software company bought a small catering platform rather than build its own, so private flight operators can book, pay for and cater a trip in one system.
Photo: TechCrunch / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Developer tools · North AmericaHarness buys Augment Code's Cosmos coding agent and product teamAugment raised $252 million and was valued at $977 million in 2024. Harness bought its Cosmos agent platform, Auggie CLI and Code Context Engine, not the whole company, and co-founder Igor Ostrovsky is joining with the team.Wednesday, 7 October 2026
Image: M-KOPAFintech · EuropeM-KOPA buys Finnish phone-locking software maker KilpiTek for $8 millionThe Kenyan smartphone lender quietly closed the deal in March; UK filings now show it paid a third in cash and the rest mostly in its own shares to own the software that locks phones when customers miss payments.
Photo: Luke Ma from Taipei, Taiwan ROC / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · East AsiaCoconala buys 51% of AI consultancy Acrosstudio for ¥872 million ($5.8 million)The Tokyo skills marketplace is making the five-year-old AI implementation firm, which booked about $7.5 million in revenue last year, the core of the new AI division it set up in September.
Photo: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Slovinský / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaTiny buys Oso Cloud's assets for C$1.9 million as Oso's founder and team join TemporalA startup that raised about $26 million from investors including Sequoia and Felicis sold its authorization product for C$1.9 million (about $1.3 million), while its CEO and part of the team went to Temporal to work on AI agent security.
Photo: Free-Photos from Pixabay / Wikimedia Commons, CC0AI · EuropeBooking platform anny acquires Cologne AI phone-agent startup HiDeskHiDesk was less than a year old, already profitable and growing about 20% a month when its neighbour in Cologne bought it. Neither company has ever taken venture capital.
Photo: MÁV Zrt. / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0AI · EuropeAutomation Anywhere agrees to buy Norwegian voice AI company Boost.ai from Nordic CapitalThe automation software maker is adding a customer-facing chat and voice platform built for banks, insurers and telecoms. Boost.ai reported revenue of €25 million for 2025.
Photo: Bryn Holmes / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaFresh Clinics acquires Spakinect, adding a telehealth exam network for US med spasSpakinect's nurse practitioners have carried out more than 1.56 million remote Good Faith Exams in 14 years. Fresh Clinics wants to sell that alongside medical directorship and product supply as states tighten med-spa rules.
Image: Neolegal (press release)Legal & compliance · North AmericaNeolegal acquires Leya to sell legal help as an employee benefit in QuebecThe Montreal legal tech firm picked up a platform that more than 50,000 people already reach through their employer, insurer or bank, pushing further into group insurance.
Photo: 4300streetcar / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Fintech · North AmericaProsperum Fintech Holdings acquires AI trading-signals platform Yellow TunnelThe Chicago holding company will merge Yellow Tunnel with its options newsletter Option Hotline to build an "Investor Terminal" for retail traders.Tuesday, 6 October 2026
Photo: KruegA / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Commerce & marketing · North AmericaUber agrees to buy workplace catering marketplace ezCater for $2.3 billion in cashezCater handled more than $2.5 billion in gross bookings over the past year with average orders above $400, and Uber says the Boston company is already profitable on an adjusted basis.
Photo: Artem Beliaikin from Moscow, Russia / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Commerce & marketing · North AmericaAlgolia buys Velou to add AI product-data enrichment beneath its retail searchVelou's six-person team joins Algolia, whose search platform handles nearly two trillion queries a year. The startup's multimodal AI turns catalog photos and text into structured product attributes that shoppers and AI agents can search on.
Photo: Fred E. Mang, Jr. / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainFintech · North AmericaAnchorage Digital buys payouts platform Routable to push stablecoins into corporate paymentsThe federally chartered crypto bank is buying a fiat payouts company backed by Sam Altman, betting that Fortune 500 finance teams want to pay suppliers in dollars, euros or stablecoins from one screen.
Photo: Gary Todd / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Fintech · EuropeSpain's Bcas buys Berlin student-finance startup Lendorse in its first move abroadThe deal makes Bcas, by its own account, the only European platform running income share agreements in both Spain and Germany, and it wants Germany to be one of its main growth engines from 2027.
Photo: Geographer / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Healthtech & bio · IndiaHoola Health acquires UpTodd to build a paid programme for a child's first 1,000 daysFour months after raising $5 million and dropping the BabyMD name, the Bengaluru paediatric clinic chain bought a parenting app with more than 10,000 paying customers and kept all three of its founders.
Image: InteleTravelTravel & hospitality · North AmericaInteleTravel acquires Honolulu group-booking startup 40Hammocks, will relaunch it as GrouprThe host agency is aiming the hotel room-block software at wedding planners and small-group organisers, a segment it says enterprise booking platforms price out, and at its own network of 145,000 advisors.
Photo: Syced / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · EuropePersonio acquires Berlin spend-management startup Circula in its largest deal yetThe Munich HR software company is folding expenses, corporate cards and tax-optimised benefits into its payroll platform. More than 500 companies already used both products.
Photo: Mr.ちゅらさん / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Commerce & marketing · North AmericaReactiv acquires New York rival Kin Commerce, adding Steve Madden and Chubbies as app clientsThe Toronto mobile-commerce startup paid cash up front for Kin's technology, IP and customers. Kin's leadership is not coming along: its team is moving on to a new AI marketing startup.
Photo: German Embassy London / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0HR & work · EuropeSAP agrees to buy Belgian skills-intelligence startup TechWolf in record Belgian VC-backed exitTechWolf says it is the largest acquisition of a venture-backed software company in Belgian history. SAP, already an investor, wants its skills graph at the centre of SuccessFactors and its Joule agents.
Photo: VeronicaTherese / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0HR & work · EuropeUnit4 acquires Napta to add skills-based staffing to its ERP for consulting firmsThe Dutch ERP vendor is buying a Paris startup that matches consultants to projects, and is letting it keep its brand and keep selling to firms that run rival ERP systems.Monday, 5 October 2026
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Content Providers: CDC/ Douglas / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainHealthtech & bio · North AmericaShionogi agrees to buy rare-disease drugmaker IntraBio for $2 billionShionogi is paying $2 billion in cash for a privately held biotech whose only product, Aqneursa, brought in about $68 million last year and won a second FDA approval less than three weeks before the deal.
Photo: BalticServers.com / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0AI · EuropeCollibra acquires Munich AI governance startup trail ML to automate compliance checksCollibra is buying a three-year-old Munich startup whose agents check AI systems against the EU AI Act, ISO 42001 and NIST rules, and can block an AI agent's action before it breaks policy.
Photo: David Wheatley / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Mobility & logistics · Europeinit buys 67.74% of Applied Autonomy, the Norwegian software firm behind Stavanger's driverless busThe Karlsruhe transit-software group is paying an undisclosed sum for control of an eight-person startup whose xFlow platform supervises what init calls Europe's only regular-route autonomous bus without a safety driver.
Photo: Wilfredor / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Commerce & marketing · North AmericaTrackStreet buys Portland wholesale ordering platform Candid WholesaleThe brand-protection company, best known for policing unauthorized sellers and pricing, now wants to run the orders that brands take from authorized retailers.
Photo: Oast House Archive / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0AI · North AmericaZeta Global agrees to buy Senso, the Toronto startup behind its AI search visibility productZeta is buying the company whose technology already powered its generative engine optimization offering. Senso started out building retention analytics for credit unions before joining Y Combinator in 2024.