We tracked 11 startup acquisitions announced between 6–12 April 2026, across 6 regions. None disclosed a price.
AI accounted for 4 deals and North America for 5. 1 deal was an acquihire.
Thursday, 9 April 2026
Photo: Travis Wise / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · North AmericaCisco to acquire Galileo, the AI agent evaluation and observability startup, for SplunkCisco plans to fold Galileo, which raised $68 million and counts Comcast and Twilio as customers, into Splunk Observability Cloud to monitor and put guardrails on AI agents.
Photo: Linason Blessing / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0HR & work · North AmericaGusto acquires Mosey to add state and local compliance for small businessesThe payroll provider plans to turn Mosey, whose clients included Chime and Headspace, into Gusto Business Compliance for its more than 400,000 small-business customers.
Photo: Arunvrparavur / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · North AmericaMotorola Solutions acquires Hyper, a startup whose AI agents answer non-emergency 911 callsHyper sold less than a year after leaving stealth with a $6.3 million seed round. Its AI handles the non-emergency calls that make up more than two-thirds of the volume at many US 911 centres.Wednesday, 8 April 2026
Photo: Chris Olszewski / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Commerce & marketing · OceaniaCanva acquires Ortto, the marketing automation company formerly called AutopilotOrtto, which has more than 11,000 customers in 190 countries and had raised about $32 million, will keep running its product while its team joins Canva Grow, Canva's marketing product.
Photo: Victorgrigas / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0AI · OceaniaCanva acquires Simtheory, the Sharkey brothers' AI agent platform, ahead of Canva CreateCanva bought the Sydney-founded AI agent startup alongside Ortto, a second company run by the same two founders, and said Simtheory would shape the AI features it planned to show at Canva Create a week later.
Photo: Josephenus P. Riley / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · IndiaExotel acqui-hires Dubverse's voice AI team, co-founders to lead analytics and AIThe Bengaluru cloud communications company took on the team behind the Kalaari-backed AI dubbing startup, putting its two co-founders in charge of conversation analytics and its wider AI work.
Photo: Martine Hamilton Knight / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Fintech · EuropeExperian acquires Konfir, the UK income and employment verification startupExperian had used Konfir's technology since 2023, and its payroll data already sat in more than 30% of Konfir's checks; the London startup now joins Experian's verifications business.
Monday, 6 April 2026
Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Healthtech & bio · Latin AmericaMexican health startup Koltin acquires home-care provider Last Mile CareKoltin started out as a Last Mile Care client; now it is buying the home-visit provider to add infusions, therapies and post-discharge care at home to its insurance and telemedicine offer for older adults.
Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Fintech · AfricaSMC DAO buys Nigerian crypto off-ramp Bread Africa in all-cash six-figure dealIt is the second time founder Iam Etefia has sold to the same crypto collective: SMC DAO paid $250,000 for his Peniwallet and Peniremit in 2023.