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Tuesday, 13 January 2026
Photo: James Steakley / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Fintech · North AmericaThe Baldwin Group completes acquisition of Obie, a Chicago insurance startup for landlordsBaldwin bought Creisoft, the company behind Obie, to give its managing general agent MSI an embedded channel to real estate investors. Obie says its revenue grew more than 2,100% since 2021.
Photo: Coolcaesar / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Cybersecurity · IsraelCrowdStrike agrees to buy Israeli browser security startup SeraphicCrowdStrike will add Seraphic's in-browser protection to its Falcon platform, a week after agreeing to buy identity startup SGNL. Reports put the price at $400 million to $420 million, mostly in cash.
Photo: Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Commerce & marketing · Latin AmericaGrupo OMNi buys Jüsto, reviving the Mexican online grocer a month after it shut downCosta Rican businessman Moisés Chaves's OMNi took over the holding company of Jüsto, which had stopped operating on 15 December, and pledged $100 million in the first year to restart it.
Friday, 9 January 2026
Photo: daudi_mukiibi / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Legal & compliance · North AmericaWolters Kluwer buys Vancouver GRC software firm StandardFusion for €32 millionThe Dutch information group paid about €32 million (roughly $37 million) in cash for a 40-person compliance software company with about €4 million in 2024 revenue, nearly all of it recurring.
Photo: AmarinderBrar / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · North AmericaiAltA Holdings acquires wealth data API provider BridgeFTThe WestCap-backed private markets company is buying a 2015-founded firm whose WealthTech API connects advisers and fintechs to more than 900 data partners, from custodians to 401(k) recordkeepers.Thursday, 8 January 2026
Photo: Marvel44 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaCrowdStrike agrees to buy identity security startup SGNL for about $740 millionCrowdStrike is paying close to $740 million, mostly in cash, for a Palo Alto company founded in 2021 that had raised $42 million to replace standing access privileges with real-time, risk-based authorization.
Photo: Bobby Hidy / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Travel & hospitality · IsraelEtraveli Group acquires Israeli flight-pricing AI startup WenrixWenrix, which says more than $14 billion of flights were sold through its platform in 2025 and has been profitable for over two years, will keep running independently inside the Swedish flight-booking group.
Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaIntelyCare acquires hospital staffing app CareRev to cover acute and post-acute careThe deal joins IntelyCare's nursing platform, built around post-acute care, with CareRev's on-demand hospital shift app, which more than 35,000 clinicians use; both brands will stay.
Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainDeveloper tools · North AmericaSnowflake agrees to acquire observability startup Observe, which was built on its databaseObserve ran on Snowflake from its first day and counted Snowflake Ventures among its investors; The Information had put the price at about $1 billion, which would be Snowflake's largest deal.
Tuesday, 6 January 2026
Photo: U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · IsraelMobileye to buy CEO Amnon Shashua's humanoid robot startup Mentee Robotics for $900MMobileye's chief executive co-founded and chairs the four-year-old startup and is its largest shareholder; he stepped out of the board vote, and Globes reported he will receive about $341 million.
Photo: Rsparks3 / Wikimedia Commons, CC0AI · EuropeAccenture to acquire London AI firm Faculty; CEO Marc Warner to become Accenture CTOFaculty, which built the NHS's Covid early warning system and has advised OpenAI and Anthropic on safety, brings more than 400 AI specialists, and its founder takes over Accenture's technology strategy.Monday, 5 January 2026
Photo: Nileshantony92 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Mobility & logistics · IndiaCARS24 buys vehicle-records app CarInfo for Rs 118 crore ($13M) ahead of possible IPOCarInfo, used by more than 12 million people a month to check registration, insurance and traffic fines, gives the used-car marketplace a way to stay in touch with owners long after a sale.
Photo: Clara Sanchiz / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Fintech · AfricaFlutterwave buys Nigerian open-banking startup Mono in all-stock dealFlutterwave, already a Mono customer in 2021, paid in its own shares; Mono's chief executive said the price was well above the $17.5 million the startup had raised.