Acquihires & small exits
Acquihires
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Team buys, asset purchases and exits under $50m. These deals rarely make headlines, but they are how most venture-backed startups end.
Image: M-KOPAM-KOPA buys Finnish phone-locking software maker KilpiTek for $8 million
The 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.
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London · AIOxford Metrics buys Move AI's assets for £525,000, a fraction of the $17.5m it raised
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Undisclosed · FintechAnyflo exits stealth and acqui-hires Native, a Bitcoin lending team on Sui
Tokyo · AICoconala buys 51% of AI consultancy Acrosstudio for ¥872 million ($5.8 million)
London · AIOxford Metrics buys Move AI's assets for £525,000, a fraction of the $17.5m it raisedUnited States · AIApple acqui-hires Huxe, the AI audio startup founded by former Google NotebookLM developersUnited States · Developer toolsCloudflare takes on Ryan Dahl's Deno team and will wind down the Deno runtime and Deno DeployUndisclosed · FintechAnyflo exits stealth and acqui-hires Native, a Bitcoin lending team on SuiTokyo · AICoconala buys 51% of AI consultancy Acrosstudio for ¥872 million ($5.8 million)