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Thursday, 10 September 2026
Photo: Jim Evans / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Legal & compliance · EuropeFood-safety startup Biorsaf acquires Cooki as P101 leads its new funding roundBiorsaf paired the purchase of Bologna's Cooki, used by more than 1,000 caterers and artisan food makers, with a €5.2 million (about $6 million) round, and plans to triple its staff to 120 within 18 months.
Photo: Igloo22225 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Developer tools · North AmericaCognition hires the Dioxus Labs team to work on its Devin coding agentThe team behind Dioxus, an open-source Rust framework for building web, desktop and mobile apps from one codebase, is joining Cognition. Devin's new command-line tool already used a Dioxus renderer.
Image: CostPocketFintech · EuropeMynt acquires Estonian expense-management startup CostPocketThe Swedish corporate-card company bought all of CostPocket, a 2016 Estonian startup whose receipt app links to more than 40 accounting and ERP systems, after the two had already launched a co-branded business card together.Wednesday, 9 September 2026
Photo: Todd Huffman from Phoenix, AZ / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Fintech · AfricaNigeria's CreditChek acquires Ugandan core banking startup AlgosysThe deal gives the Nigerian credit-data company its first operating base in East Africa, three months after a $600,000 round raised to expand into Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda.
Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaH1 acquires provider network data startup Defacto HealthH1 had been licensing Defacto's data for years; its CEO says directory and network errors drove roughly half of the company's customer support tickets.
Image: Guardrails AIAI · North AmericaHarvey acquires Guardrails AI to make its legal agents more reliableThe legal AI company announced its fourth acquisition of 2026 on the same day it raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation.
Image: StillaAI · EuropeMeta acquires Swedish AI agent startup Stilla to build out Meta Business AgentStilla's founders previously built Tictail, which Shopify bought in 2018. Their new company had been on the market for only eight months.
Photo: Смок Вавельский / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0AI · EuropeMotorola Solutions acquires Portuguese video AI startup DeepNeuronicThe five-year-old company from Covilhã, which turns ordinary security cameras into real-time analysis systems, will be folded into Motorola's Avigilon video platform.
Photo: LG Electronics / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Fintech · North AmericaPayNearMe buys Marr Labs' AI agent technology and hires its teamPayNearMe took over the technology and key staff of Y Combinator-backed Marr Labs, whose founders previously built Vlingo, the speech company behind the first Siri app. The agents will be built into PayNearMe's PayXM payments platform.
Image: Tailwind LabsDeveloper tools · North AmericaShopify acquires Tailwind Labs, the company behind the Tailwind CSS frameworkTailwind CSS is installed more than 110 million times a week, yet Tailwind Labs cut three of its four developers in January after AI coding tools hit its revenue. Under Shopify it will stop selling to new customers and focus on the open-source framework.Tuesday, 8 September 2026
Photo: Basile Morin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · Southeast AsiaCircle agrees to buy Singapore payments startup Tazapay for $400M in stockThe USDC issuer is paying in its own shares for a cross-border payments firm that already runs about 60% of its transaction volume through stablecoins, and in which Circle was already an investor.
Image: Bonfy.AICybersecurity · IsraelKiteworks acquires Israeli AI data-security startup Bonfy.AIFounded in early 2024 by the former chief executives of Skybox Security and Idaptive, Bonfy checks sensitive data at the moment it is sent, including by AI agents, and becomes Kiteworks' eighth acquisition in under five years.
Photo: Ndawoje / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Legal & compliance · EuropeLexroom buys French legal AI startup Query Juriste in its first acquisitionThe Italian legal AI company bought the two-year-old, bootstrapped Paris startup and Bulgaria's Praven Intelekt on the same day, adding about 1,200 customers and two new markets.
Thursday, 3 September 2026
Image: Hugging FaceAI · North AmericaNvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billionNvidia is paying almost three times Hugging Face's last private valuation for the open model hub, and promised developers they will not need Nvidia hardware to keep using it.
Photo: Solomon203 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0HR & work · OceaniaSwipejobs to buy Expert360 in a sale that reportedly leaves its founder with nothingExpert360 raised about A$30 million (about US$21 million) over a decade, but the reported A$16 million (about US$11 million) sale pays out only holders of its Series C and C1 preference shares.
Photo: Marcosleal / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Fintech · Latin AmericaC6 Bank buys benefits fintech Alymente to enter Brazil's corporate benefits marketThe JPMorgan-backed digital bank is buying a ready-made platform with more than 100,000 users rather than building one, as rule changes open Brazil's R$150 billion (about $29 billion) a year benefits market to new players.
Image: NilumCommerce & marketing · EuropeeComID buys Stockholm AI second-hand shopping startup Nilum after $17M seed roundDays after raising what it called Europe's largest fashion-tech seed round, eComID bought Nilum to bring pre-owned products into its Shopping Passport, and hired Nilum's founder to lead recommerce.
Image: EmpionHR & work · EuropeFactorial acquires Berlin AI hiring-assessment startup Empion to grow in GermanyThe Barcelona HR software company, valued at $2.5 billion, is turning Empion's culture-fit scoring into native candidate and employee assessments in its own platform.