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Thursday, 22 January 2026
Photo: 21st Innovator / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Climate & agritech · AfricaIzili acquires pay-as-you-go solar company Qotto, expanding to six African countriesThe BioLite-controlled off-grid energy group paired the purchase with $5 million in convertible bonds from the Off-Grid Energy Access Fund.
Photo: Estormiz / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Commerce & marketing · IsraelPayPal acquires Cymbio to run its Store Sync service for AI shopping assistantsCymbio's software already powered PayPal's Store Sync, which puts merchant catalogs inside AI assistants such as Microsoft Copilot and Perplexity, and PayPal Ventures had been an investor since 2022.Wednesday, 21 January 2026
Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Healthtech & bio · IndiaPeak XV-backed Care.fi acquires hospital discharge platform AldunAldun says it can get patients out of hospital about 10 minutes after the final bill; Care.fi wants to take that from roughly 10,000 discharges a month to 100,000 across 300 hospital units.
Photo: Wehrstossgewehr / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0AI · North AmericaHarvey acquires Hexus in its first deal to build tools for in-house legal teamsThe $8 billion legal AI company bought a two-year-old product-demo startup for its engineers, who will now build Harvey's products for corporate legal departments.
Photo: TheVentureStudios / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · North AmericaHelium Ventures acquires InsurGrid, a policy-data platform used by 2,500 insurance agentsThe AI-native holding company, set up by the founders of fintech Stilt, bought a pre-seed-funded insurtech that says it grew 50% a year through the end of 2025.Tuesday, 20 January 2026
Photo: Teaching and Learning with Technology / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · North AmericaConnectWise acquires zofiQ, a Toronto maker of AI agents for MSP service deskszofiQ's agents already handled ticket triage and documentation inside ConnectWise PSA; ConnectWise now plans to spread them across its RMM, cybersecurity and data protection products.
Photo: Tzim78 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Commerce & marketing · EuropeKolsquare acquires Austrian influencer marketing platform StoryclashThe deal gives the French influencer marketing company, part of the team.blue group, a stronger position in the DACH market, while Storyclash's team of more than 50 stays in Linz.
Photo: Thecommondesk / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Edtech · North AmericaNewsela acquires Schoolytics, a student data analytics platform for K-12 districtsSchoolytics, which began in 2020 as a Google Classroom dashboard for teachers, will be wired into Newsela's Formative assessment product and its Luna AI assistant.
Photo: Dietmar Rabich / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · North AmericaProcore acquires Datagrid, a San Francisco AI startup that connects construction dataDatagrid, which had raised $37.7 million according to PitchBook, links ERP, cloud storage and project systems so AI agents can review submittals and draft RFIs; its CEO Thiago da Costa now leads AI and data strategy at Procore.
Photo: Daoducquan / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Commerce & marketing · EuropeVWO and AB Tasty agree to merge in Everstone-backed deal creating a $100M+ revenue testing firmThe Paris company, which had raised $64 million from French venture investors, will combine with Everstone Capital-controlled VWO; AB Tasty's two co-CEOs take senior roles under VWO co-founder Sparsh Gupta.
Photo: Julia Justo / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainCommerce & marketing · North AmericaGrubhub parent Wonder acquires restaurant cash-back app ClaimClaim, which started as a Gen Z brand-discovery app backed by Sequoia, went live for Grubhub restaurants in New York on day one, with a national rollout planned for later in 2026.Friday, 16 January 2026
Photo: Heisenberg Media / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · EuropeClickHouse acquires Langfuse, the open-source LLM observability platformLangfuse, a 13-person team with more than 2,000 paying customers, already ran its whole product on ClickHouse's database before the deal, which was announced alongside a $400 million funding round for the buyer.
Photo: Nicolas Vigier / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Consumer & media · IndiaSnabbit acquihires the founding team of Bengaluru home services rival PyncPync's three founders and more than 20 staff moved to Snabbit after the Bengaluru startup, which had served more than 25,000 households, wound down its own brand.Thursday, 15 January 2026
Photo: HaeB / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · EuropeCloudflare acquires Human Native, a London marketplace for licensing content to AI developersHuman Native was less than two years old and had raised a £2.8 million seed round. Cloudflare bought it to help publishers and creators charge AI companies for their content.
Photo: Jemimus / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaDelinea agrees to buy StrongDM to control access for developers and AI agentsDelinea built its business on password vaults for IT administrators. StrongDM grants engineers and software agents access only at the moment they need it, then takes it away.
Photo: Sérgio Valle Duarte / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0Cybersecurity · Latin AmericaInfoblox agrees to buy Axur, a Brazilian-founded firm that takes down phishing sitesAxur finds fake websites, apps and social profiles that impersonate a company and gets them removed. Infoblox plans to block those sites at the DNS layer while the takedowns run.
Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Healthtech & bio · EuropeEGYM merges into Mindbody and ClassPass parent Playlist in deal valuing group at $7.5 billionThe Munich company, which sells smart gym equipment and runs the Wellpass corporate fitness network, becomes a subsidiary of Playlist as investors add $785 million in new equity.
Photo: Kyvuh / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Data & analytics · North AmericaTeamworks acquires Sportlogiq, the Montreal hockey analytics firm used by 97% of NHL teamsSportlogiq turns ordinary game video into tracking data for hockey and football teams. Teamworks, which already used that data in its scouting models, is bringing all 80 of its staff in-house.Wednesday, 14 January 2026
Photo: Blogtrepreneur / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Legal & compliance · North AmericaFilevine acquires Pincites and turns its Word contract tool into LOIS for WordThe four-person Y Combinator startup, run by sisters Sona and Mariam Sulakian, chose Filevine over bids from several legal AI unicorns. Filevine had been a paying customer first.
Photo: Press Information Department / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainHR & work · North AmericaPhenom acquires people analytics startup Included in its seventh acquisitionIncluded's AI agents clean up messy HR data and write plain-language reports on hiring, attrition and team health. Phenom will build them into its Workforce Intelligence product.