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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.
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.