We tracked 14 startup acquisitions announced between 19–25 January 2026, across 5 regions. Only 1 disclosed a price, adding up to $5.15bn; the rest kept terms private, which is normal for venture-backed exits.
The largest was Capital One’s $5.15bn purchase of Brex.
Commerce & marketing accounted for 4 deals and North America for 8. 1 deal was an acquihire.
Thursday, 22 January 2026
Photo: ajay_suresh / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Fintech · North AmericaCapital One agrees to buy Brex for $5.15 billion in cash and stockThe price was less than half of the $12.3 billion valuation Brex reached in a 2022 funding round, and co-founder Pedro Franceschi will stay on to run the business.
Photo: ESO / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaApprentice.io acquires lab data startup Ganymede to link pharma R&D with manufacturingApprentice was one of Ganymede's earliest partners: its CEO praised Ganymede's Lab-as-Code integrations in the startup's 2022 Series A announcement, three years before buying it.
Photo: 21st Innovator / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Climate & agritech · AfricaIzili acquires pay-as-you-go solar company Qotto, expanding to six African countriesThe BioLite-controlled off-grid energy group paired the purchase with $5 million in convertible bonds from the Off-Grid Energy Access Fund.
Photo: Estormiz / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Commerce & marketing · IsraelPayPal acquires Cymbio to run its Store Sync service for AI shopping assistantsCymbio's software already powered PayPal's Store Sync, which puts merchant catalogs inside AI assistants such as Microsoft Copilot and Perplexity, and PayPal Ventures had been an investor since 2022.Wednesday, 21 January 2026
Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Healthtech & bio · IndiaPeak XV-backed Care.fi acquires hospital discharge platform AldunAldun says it can get patients out of hospital about 10 minutes after the final bill; Care.fi wants to take that from roughly 10,000 discharges a month to 100,000 across 300 hospital units.
Photo: Wehrstossgewehr / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0AI · North AmericaHarvey acquires Hexus in its first deal to build tools for in-house legal teamsThe $8 billion legal AI company bought a two-year-old product-demo startup for its engineers, who will now build Harvey's products for corporate legal departments.
Photo: TheVentureStudios / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · North AmericaHelium Ventures acquires InsurGrid, a policy-data platform used by 2,500 insurance agentsThe AI-native holding company, set up by the founders of fintech Stilt, bought a pre-seed-funded insurtech that says it grew 50% a year through the end of 2025.Tuesday, 20 January 2026
Photo: Teaching and Learning with Technology / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · North AmericaConnectWise acquires zofiQ, a Toronto maker of AI agents for MSP service deskszofiQ's agents already handled ticket triage and documentation inside ConnectWise PSA; ConnectWise now plans to spread them across its RMM, cybersecurity and data protection products.
Photo: Tzim78 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Commerce & marketing · EuropeKolsquare acquires Austrian influencer marketing platform StoryclashThe deal gives the French influencer marketing company, part of the team.blue group, a stronger position in the DACH market, while Storyclash's team of more than 50 stays in Linz.
Photo: Thecommondesk / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Edtech · North AmericaNewsela acquires Schoolytics, a student data analytics platform for K-12 districtsSchoolytics, which began in 2020 as a Google Classroom dashboard for teachers, will be wired into Newsela's Formative assessment product and its Luna AI assistant.
Photo: Dietmar Rabich / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · North AmericaProcore acquires Datagrid, a San Francisco AI startup that connects construction dataDatagrid, which had raised $37.7 million according to PitchBook, links ERP, cloud storage and project systems so AI agents can review submittals and draft RFIs; its CEO Thiago da Costa now leads AI and data strategy at Procore.
Photo: Daoducquan / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Commerce & marketing · EuropeVWO and AB Tasty agree to merge in Everstone-backed deal creating a $100M+ revenue testing firmThe Paris company, which had raised $64 million from French venture investors, will combine with Everstone Capital-controlled VWO; AB Tasty's two co-CEOs take senior roles under VWO co-founder Sparsh Gupta.
Photo: Julia Justo / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainCommerce & marketing · North AmericaGrubhub parent Wonder acquires restaurant cash-back app ClaimClaim, which started as a Gen Z brand-discovery app backed by Sequoia, went live for Grubhub restaurants in New York on day one, with a national rollout planned for later in 2026.