We tracked 9 startup acquisitions announced between 23 February – 1 March 2026, across 5 regions. Only 2 disclosed a price, adding up to $14.4m; the rest kept terms private, which is normal for venture-backed exits.
The largest was upGrad’s $11m purchase of Internshala. Thermax paid $3.4m for ExactSpace.
AI accounted for 4 deals and India for 3.
Wednesday, 25 February 2026
Photo: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Slovinský / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0AI · North AmericaAnthropic acquires Vercept, Seattle maker of the Vy computer-use agent, to strengthen ClaudeVercept, an Allen Institute for AI spinout that said it had raised $50 million, is shutting its Vy agent about a year after its seed round so its team can work on Claude's ability to operate a computer.
Photo: Corqe / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Mobility & logistics · North AmericaHarbinger buys driver-assistance startup Phantom AI and licenses its vision software to ZFThe electric truck maker is adding Phantom AI's camera-based safety features to its medium-duty vehicles and, through a licence with ZF, selling the software into passenger cars for the first time.Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Photo: www.Pixel.la Free Stock Photos / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Mobility & logistics · IndiaDeepinder Goyal's LAT Aerospace acquires counter-drone startup Sharang Shakti to enter defenceThe aircraft startup, still testing its first short take-off prototype, bought a three-year-old Gurugram company that builds drone-detection radar and interceptor drones.
Photo: ESO / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0AI · EuropeBrookfield's Radiant merges with London AI cloud startup Ori to build integrated AI factoriesOri's GPU cloud software becomes the operating layer for a Brookfield-backed company that Reuters said was valued at $1.3 billion, with Ori founder Mahdi Yahya as president.Monday, 23 February 2026
Photo: U.S. Space Force S4S by David Dozoretz / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainCybersecurity · North AmericaArctic Wolf acquires exposure-management startup Sevco Security to extend its Aurora platformSevco, an Austin startup of about 50 people that Gartner named a Visionary in 2025, builds an inventory of a company's devices and weaknesses without installing agents on them.
Photo: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Slovinský / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0AI · IsraelNvidia acquires Israeli data startup Illumex to help enterprises put AI agents to workIllumex turns a company's scattered data into business ontologies that AI agents can read. Israeli press put the price at between $60 million and $75 million, against $13 million raised.