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Thursday, 8 January 2026
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.