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Tuesday, 7 July 2026
Photo: Carl Lender from Sunrise, USA / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaBarracuda acquires Evo Security, identity and access startup for MSPsBarracuda is folding the Austin company's single-agent identity and privileged access tools into BarracudaONE, aiming at managed service providers that look after thousands of client environments.
Photo: Aigner Ronja, Kohlmeier Michelle / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Edtech · Middle EastNoon Academy acquires Saudi exam-prep platform AlmakhfiAlmakhfi says it has helped more than 250,000 Saudi students prepare for the Qudurat and Tahsili university admission tests, and its content will now feed Noon Academy's AI-driven learning platform.Monday, 6 July 2026
Photo: Lauri Veerde / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Consumer & media · North AmericaCVC Capital Partners agrees to take majority stake in music distributor DistroKidThe sale follows a January report that a price of around $2 billion was under discussion for the platform, which says more than 2 million artists use it; Insight Partners keeps a large minority stake.
Photo: Keerthishivanand / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Healthtech & bio · Indiaekincare acquires Hyderabad AI claims startup SuperclaimsSuperclaims, founded in September 2024, says its AI cuts the review of a health insurance claim from about 90 minutes to under five, and it gives ekincare a direct line to insurers and TPAs.
Photo: DrReload / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Mobility & logistics · EuropeFincantieri takes control of Rome underwater communications startup WSenseThe shipbuilder, already an investor, is buying WSense through a holding vehicle as one of four underwater deals worth an initial EUR 600 million (about $700 million) combined.
Wednesday, 1 July 2026
Photo: Rhoda Baer (Photographer) / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainHealthtech & bio · EuropeIpsen to buy Swiss biotech Memo Therapeutics for €200 million upfront plus milestonesThe French drugmaker is paying for one asset: potravitug, a Phase II antibody against BK polyomavirus in kidney-transplant patients. Memo's discovery platform and other staff are being split off into a new company its shareholders keep.
Photo: Ynhockey / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · IsraelNipendo buys spend-management startup PayEm for $500,000 after it raised about $47 millionThe buyer, part of Israel's Top Group Software, paid a symbolic price and committed up to $3.5 million more, mostly to pay down debt; all existing PayEm shares and options are being cancelled.
Photo: B.alotaby / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · Middle EastBeehive takes majority control of Saudi debt crowdfunding platform ThemarThe Dubai SME lender, which had worked in Saudi Arabia through bank partnerships since 2020, now owns a platform licensed by the Saudi Central Bank and says it is the first digital SME financing platform regulated in the UAE, Oman and Saudi Arabia.
Photo: Siddarth P Raj / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Proptech · IndiaCrib acquires CirclePe to offer zero-deposit renting in India's co-living marketThe co-living management software company, which says it serves more than 2,500 operators handling over $1 billion in rent, bought a two-year-old startup that finances tenants' security deposits through lending partners.
Photo: Syced / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Cybersecurity · IsraelQualcomm acquires Israeli home-network security company SAM Seamless NetworkSAM's software, sold through broadband providers such as AT&T, Verizon and Virgin Media, covers more than 15 million networks; Israeli press put the price at over $100 million to over $150 million.
Photo: Wilfredor / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · Latin AmericaTilt acquires Brazilian salary-advance lender Blipay in its fourth market outside the USThe San Francisco lender formerly known as Empower Finance gets an immediate foothold in Brazil and a user base it puts at more than 6 million registered users.Tuesday, 30 June 2026
Photo: Thomas Quine / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Cybersecurity · IsraelAikido Security acquires Root, the former Slim.AI, to patch open-source code in placeRoot's agents write fixes for the exact library versions companies already run, so teams do not have to upgrade. Aikido is opening an Israeli development centre for Root's staff.
Photo: Dllu / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · EuropeDatadog acquires Adaptive ML to strengthen its AI research labThe reinforcement-learning startup, which counted Datadog chief executive Olivier Pomel among its early angel investors, joins Datadog AI Research to train models on observability data.
Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Commerce & marketing · North AmericaHubSpot agrees to acquire Warmly, maker of AI agents that convert website visitorsWarmly's first integration was with HubSpot in 2023; three years later 223 of its paying customers were connecting the two products, and HubSpot is now buying the company.
Photo: Robert Bock / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Developer tools · IndiaNoon acquires Bengaluru mobile testing startup FinalRun in its first India dealThe AI product design company, which raised $44 million in April, is buying a year-old team that builds agents able to operate Android and iOS phones on their own.
Photo: kallerna / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · East AsiaRebellions acquires inference optimization startup SqueezeBits in share swapThe Korean AI chipmaker's first acquisition brings in a profitable software partner it had worked with since 2024, and turns SqueezeBits backers such as Kakao Ventures into Rebellions shareholders.
Thursday, 25 June 2026
Photo: Coolcaesar / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · North AmericaAdobe acquires AI video and photo enhancement maker Topaz Labs for about $340 millionAdobe left the price out of its announcement; its next quarterly filing showed it agreed to pay about $340 million, mostly in cash, for the maker of Topaz Video, Topaz Photo and Gigapixel, which has built enhancement software for more than two decades.
Photo: Matti Blume / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Proptech · North AmericaPremarket acquires Maklare AI to add buyer-demand data to its private listings networkThe New York network for off-market homes, which says it holds $4 billion of private inventory, bought a startup that turns agents' scattered buyer information into structured demand data, and made its co-founder chief operating officer.