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Thursday, 19 March 2026
Photo: MikeRun / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Developer tools · North AmericaOpenAI agrees to buy Astral, maker of Python tools uv and Ruff, for its Codex teamThe three tools Astral built for Python developers are downloaded hundreds of millions of times a month, and OpenAI said they will stay open source after the deal closes.
Photo: Alessandro Ambrosetti / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Mobility & logistics · North AmericaZenobe buys Revolv, taking over 100+ electric trucks and 13 fleet sites in CaliforniaThe UK battery and fleet electrification company used the deal to enter the US commercial truck market, and the seller, GDEV Management, called it the first exit from its second fund.
Thursday, 12 March 2026
Photo: European Space Agency / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 igoData & analytics · EuropeEnergy Aspects agrees to acquire Paris satellite analytics company KayrrosLondon-based Energy Aspects agreed to buy Kayrros, which turns imagery from more than 20 satellite constellations into energy and environmental data. Kayrros had raised about €72 million (roughly $79 million) from investors including Index Ventures and Cathay Innovation.
Photo: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Slovinský / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Commerce & marketing · IsraelPublicis acquires Israeli creative analytics startup AdgeAIAdgeAI, founded in 2023 by brothers Eyal and Asaf Ben Shalom, never raised outside capital. Calcalist estimated that Publicis paid about $100 million, though neither side disclosed the price.
Photo: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Slovinský / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Commerce & marketing · North AmericaWebflow acquires AI content startup Vidoso to add brand-aware asset generationVidoso, founded in 2024, generates images, video clips and other marketing assets that follow a company's brand rules. Its four-person team joined Webflow, which now calls itself an agentic marketing platform.Wednesday, 11 March 2026
Photo: Basile Morin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Travel & hospitality · North AmericaBilt acquires travel commission platform Sion for $30 millionSion tracks and collects commissions for more than 8,000 travel advisors on over $7 billion in bookings; Bilt wants those advisors to book trips for its members.
Photo: Oli Dale olidale / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Mobility & logistics · IndiaCARS24 acquires vehicle utility app Vehicle Info from Surat's Vasundhara InfotechTwo months after buying CarInfo, the IPO-bound used-car marketplace picked up another bootstrapped app for checking challans, insurance and FASTag, as it tries to serve owners for as long as they keep a car.
Photo: Wikideas1 / Wikimedia Commons, CC0AI · North AmericaDatabricks acquires Quotient AI, the agent-evaluation startup from GitHub Copilot's quality teamQuotient AI, started in 2023 by engineers who ran quality work on GitHub Copilot, turns production traces of AI agents into evaluation data and reward signals. Databricks will build it into Genie, Genie Code and Agent Bricks.
Photo: Energyme / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Legal & compliance · North AmericaLegora acquires Vancouver legal AI startup Walter in its first acquisitionA day after closing a $550 million Series D, Stockholm-based Legora bought Walter, a nine-person Vancouver company whose agent-based legal software was built alongside Canadian firms Fasken and McCarthy Tétrault.Tuesday, 10 March 2026
Photo: Estormiz / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Commerce & marketing · AfricaConverted acquires Egyptian fashion platform Mitcha to feed its sales-linked ad productThe US-based ad-tech company is folding Mitcha's marketplace, customers and designer network into its platform, and Mitcha founder Hilda Louca, an investor on Shark Tank Egypt, is joining as partner and executive director.
Photo: Stethoscopes / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaElsevier agrees to acquire patient video platform MytonomyMytonomy's software puts patient education videos, surveys and messaging inside hospital health records and is used at more than 70 hospitals and 200 clinics; it will join Elsevier's Clinical Solutions business.
Photo: Derrick Coetzee from Berkeley, CA, USA / Wikimedia Commons, CC0AI · North AmericaMeta acquires Moltbook, the social network for AI agentsSix weeks after launching as a niche experiment, the Reddit-style site where AI agents post to each other was bought by Meta, and its creators Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs.
Photo: Uploaded by Duk 08:45, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC) / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainConsumer & media · Southeast AsiaStryv buys Singapore water and air purifier brand SterraThe self-funded hairdryer and shaver maker paid an undisclosed sum for the bootstrapped purifier brand, whose products are in about 200,000 Singapore homes, as it pushes into home appliances.
