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Wednesday, 7 October 2026
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.