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Thursday, 24 September 2026
Image: Row ZeroData & analytics · North AmericaDatabricks acquires Seattle spreadsheet startup Row Zero to add spreadsheets to its Genie AI agentRow Zero's spreadsheet handles billions of rows and reads live, permissioned data. Databricks plans to make it the hands-on workspace for Genie, its AI assistant for business teams.
Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Developer tools · North AmericaLiveKit acquires Loophole Labs to make its AI agents start in under three secondsLiveKit is buying a hypervisor rather than a product: Loophole Labs' virtualization technology and its eight engineers will be used to start agents faster and absorb sudden spikes in demand.
Tuesday, 22 September 2026
Photo: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Proptech · North AmericaVenn acquires a16z-backed AI leasing startup Zuma for $50 millionVenn is folding Zuma's AI leasing agents into its real estate platform as it heads toward one million homes under management. Zuma's founders are taking senior roles at Venn.
Photo: Clinton Nyabuto / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · AfricaLuno acquires Kenya's GTXN to own its cross-border payment railsThe crypto exchange bought GTXN, a Nairobi payments provider and licensed fund manager, so enterprise transfers between developed and emerging markets can settle on infrastructure Luno owns. It is founder Dan Kleinbaum's second exit in six years.
Image: PimentoAI · EuropeMistral AI acquires Paris ad-creation startup Pimento in its third deal of 2026The Pimento team is joining Mistral to work on Vibe, its chat assistant. Reported prices for the deal range from about €3.8 million to €12.7 million, and Mistral has only said it cost several million euros.Monday, 21 September 2026
Image: M7 HealthHealthtech & bio · North AmericaAscend Learning acquires nurse-scheduling startup M7 HealthAscend, which already trains nursing students and tracks nurses' competencies, is adding the software that decides who works which hospital shift, a year after M7 raised a $10 million Series A.
Photo: Maksim Sokolov (maxergon.com) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · North AmericaBlackLine acquires NetNow to bring credit checks into its invoice-to-cash softwareBlackLine bought NetNow, a Toronto startup that automates B2B credit applications and risk checks, to cover the credit decision a company makes before it sends its first invoice. Terms were not disclosed.
Photo: GyozaDumpling / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaDexCare acquires Mila Health to extend its AI agents from scheduling to care coordinationDexCare, the patient access company spun out of Providence, bought Seattle-area Mila Health, whose AI agents call, text and chat with patients. It is DexCare's second acquisition, and terms were not disclosed.Thursday, 17 September 2026
Photo: King of Hearts / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · North AmericaBeacon Software acquires AI red-teaming startup Haize LabsHaize Labs, valued at $100 million in 2024 after a round led by General Catalyst, will stop being a standalone vendor and become the in-house AI research group for Beacon's 45 software companies.
Photo: Solomon203 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0HR & work · IndiaUnstop acquires AI talent-assessment startup PerspectAI in all-equity dealUnstop, whose own first institutional round was $5 million in 2023, is buying a profitable assessment business whose clients include Tata Sons, Aditya Birla Capital, Swiggy and Motilal Oswal, without paying cash.
Tuesday, 15 September 2026
Photo: S5A-0043 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Fintech · Southeast AsiaGrab agrees to buy 60% of BNPL lender Atome Financial for $1.49 billion in cashGrab is paying $1.49 billion for control of Atome Financial now and has committed to buy the remaining 40% about two years later, at a price set by a formula with a $2 billion floor and a $4.5 billion cap.
Photo: Kuhnmi / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · EuropeEndra acquires Swiss AI startup Planlabs to move into mechanical engineeringThe a16z-backed Stockholm company, which automates electrical design for buildings, is taking on Planlabs' five-person team to build its mechanical engineering product, with plumbing to follow in 2027.
Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaMedallion acquires credentials verification organisation AndrosThe deal puts more than one million healthcare providers across nearly 400 organisations and health plans on Medallion's AI-assisted credentialing platform, which the company says makes it the largest of its kind in the US.Monday, 14 September 2026
Photo: Rodhullandemu / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaHello Patient acquires Converse Health to add back-office AI agents for medical practicesThe Austin company, whose AI agents answer patients' calls and texts, is buying a 2023 startup whose software reads faxes, finds overdue follow-ups in the chart and drafts prior authorization requests.
Image: FathomAI · North AmericaSuperhuman acquires AI meeting notetaker FathomRather than build its own notetaker, the company formerly known as Grammarly bought Fathom, which has more than 400,000 monthly active users, to feed meeting transcripts into its email, docs and AI agents.
Image: Sidero LabsDeveloper tools · North AmericaYardi acquires Sidero Labs, maker of the Talos Linux operating system for KubernetesThe property management software company was already running Talos in production before it bought the startup; Talos stays open source, and Sidero announced a hypervisor product on the same day.