We tracked 14 startup acquisitions announced between 12–18 January 2026, across 5 regions. Only 1 disclosed a price, adding up to $100m; the rest kept terms private, which is normal for venture-backed exits.
The largest was OpenAI’s $100m purchase of Torch.
Cybersecurity accounted for 3 deals and North America for 7. 1 deal was an acquihire.
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.
Photo: Wilfredor / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Commerce & marketing · North AmericaSPINS acquires MikMak to tie CPG shelf data to online shopper adsSPINS sells in-store sales and product data to consumer brands and retailers. With MikMak it adds the software that shows whether a brand's social and online ads turned into purchases.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.