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Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Photo: Almonroth / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Fintech · IndiaOxyzo to buy Zerodha-backed bond platform GoldenPi in ₹42.4 crore share swapThe OfBusiness lending arm will issue about 3.11 lakh new shares worth ₹42.4 crore (about $4.4 million) to GoldenPi's founders and investors, giving it a retail bond business with more than 16 lakh users.
Photo: G2 Esports / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0Consumer & media · AfricaCloud9 buys Kenyan ticketing platform Mtickets in KES 100 million all-stock dealThe Nairobi digital bank, launched only months earlier, paid about KES 100 million (about $773,000) in shares for a ticketing business that has sold more than a million tickets since 2014, and plans to lend to event organisers using its sales data.
Photo: Arild Vågen / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · North AmericaNMI acquires bank payments API provider DwollaAbout 60 Dwolla employees and more than 400 customers move to the embedded payments company, whose combined business now handles close to $700 billion a year, and Dwolla's chief executive becomes NMI's chief operating officer.Monday, 18 May 2026
Photo: Allan Grey / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Climate & agritech · OceaniaGentrack buys Wellington energy pricing startup Factor for NZ$24 millionThe NZX- and ASX-listed utilities software group paid an enterprise value of NZ$24 million (about $14.2 million) from its own cash, with up to NZ$10 million more due if Factor's recurring revenue reaches about NZ$17 million within three years.
Photo: Netha Hussain / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Enterprise software · Middle EastGrowthLabs acquires founder network Startup Gate for EGP 35 millionThe Egyptian ecosystem builder paid EGP 35 million (about $657,000) for a platform that is barely a year old, and plans to merge it with Catalyst OS, its software for running incubators and accelerators.
Photo: Crew crew / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Developer tools · North AmericaAnthropic acquires Stainless, the SDK generator behind OpenAI and Google's official librariesStainless generated every official Anthropic SDK and was also used by rivals OpenAI and Google; Anthropic is shutting down its hosted products, including the SDK generator.
Image: DanceMobility & logistics · EuropeSwapfiets acquires Berlin e-bike subscription startup DanceThe deal adds more than 11,000 e-bikes to the Pon-owned subscription company, taking its combined fleet past 75,000 across 45 cities, while Dance keeps its own brand and chief executive.Thursday, 14 May 2026
Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Cybersecurity · IsraelAkamai to acquire browser security startup LayerX for $205 millionLayerX secures the browsers employees already use, and Akamai is paying about $205 million in cash for a company expected to reach roughly $10 million in annual recurring revenue by year-end.
Photo: Santeri Viinamäki / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · EuropeNAB acquires Pay by Bank fintech Banked after four years as an investorNational Australia Bank first invested in London-founded Banked through NAB Ventures in 2022 and has used its account-to-account payments technology since 2024; it now owns the company outright.
Photo: Mañico / Wikimedia Commons, CC0AI · IndiaNumero acquires Chennai AI accounting startup Royu in cash-and-stock dealRoyu was less than a year old when Numero bought it; its cofounder told Inc42 the price ran to a double-digit number of millions of dollars.Wednesday, 13 May 2026
Photo: Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 deTravel & hospitality · IsraelHBX Group buys Israeli travel startup Bridgify for €3 million upfront plus performance paymentsHBX paid only €3 million (about $3.4 million) upfront; most of the price depends on how Bridgify performs, and Calcalist reported the total could reach hundreds of millions of dollars.
Photo: Estormiz / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Commerce & marketing · North AmericaInsider One acquires Bluecore, the New York retail marketing unicornBluecore, valued at $1 billion in 2021, brings Insider One a shopper identity graph that processes more than 10 billion events a day and a base of over 400 US enterprise retail brands.
Photo: Bjoertvedt / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · Latin AmericaVisma acquires Brazilian tax-automation startup Dootax alongside payments fintech Pag UtilDootax processes about R$6 billion (roughly $1.1 billion) in tax payments a month for around 1,000 Brazilian companies, and Visma is buying it as Brazil prepares to replace five taxes with a dual VAT system.Tuesday, 12 May 2026
Photo: Sharon Hahn Darlin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · North AmericaCelonis agrees to acquire MIT-rooted decision intelligence startup Ikigai LabsAs part of the deal, Celonis gains exclusive rights to MIT patents that Ikigai had licensed, and MIT becomes a Celonis shareholder.
Photo: EditorInfoBusiness / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · EuropeCoupa acquires Prague document-processing startup Rossum, its invoicing partner since 2024Coupa is buying the company whose AI model already reads invoices inside its accounts payable product, and plans to use it across its whole source-to-pay platform.
Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaFunction Health acquires supplement-rating app SuppCo from GroupMe founder Steve MartocciFunction, which sells lab and imaging tests to consumers, bought an app that rates more than 35,000 supplements and lab-tests products it buys anonymously off the shelf.
Thursday, 7 May 2026
Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaRoche agrees to buy digital pathology company PathAI for up to $1.05 billionRoche will pay $750 million upfront and up to $300 million in milestones for the Boston company, its partner since 2021, and plans to roll out PathAI's AISight lab software worldwide.
Photo: Aaron Zhu / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Fintech · East AsiaKraken parent Payward agrees to buy Hong Kong stablecoin card issuer Reap for up to $600 millionThe cash-and-stock deal valued Payward at $20 billion and was its first infrastructure purchase in Asia. Reap, founded in 2018, said its revenue and volumes nearly tripled in 2025.