We tracked 13 startup acquisitions announced between 13–19 April 2026, across 6 regions. Only 6 disclosed a price, adding up to $3.27bn; the rest kept terms private, which is normal for venture-backed exits.
The largest was Credo’s $1.3bn purchase of DustPhotonics, which had raised $100m. UCB paid $1.15bn for Neurona Therapeutics.
AI accounted for 4 deals and North America for 7. 1 deal was an acquihire.
Friday, 17 April 2026
Photo: Unknown / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaUCB to acquire epilepsy cell therapy developer Neurona Therapeutics for up to $1.15 billionThe Belgian drugmaker, already a Neurona investor through UCB Ventures, will pay $650 million upfront for a one-time cell therapy injected into the brain to calm seizures.
Photo: RuinDig/Yuki Uchida / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0AI · North AmericaMicrosoft acquires Fintool, a Y Combinator AI startup for financial researchThe six-person team behind AI agents that build DCF models in Excel and earnings decks in PowerPoint is joining Microsoft's Office Product Group.Thursday, 16 April 2026
Image: SAGA DiagnosticsHealthtech & bio · North AmericaRoche's Foundation Medicine agrees to buy SAGA Diagnostics for up to $595 millionThe Lund University spin-out sells Pathlight, a blood test for leftover cancer that Medicare already covers for early-stage breast cancer. Its main 2021 funding round was about $12 million.
Photo: Wpcpey / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Consumer & media · East AsiaBASE acquires fan video-call startup Port for ¥1.37 billion (about $8.6 million)The Tokyo-listed online shop builder bought all of Port, maker of the Talkport one-on-one creator video-call app, to sell more services and digital content alongside physical goods.
Tuesday, 14 April 2026
Photo: Eric Hunt / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Enterprise software · North AmericaAppDirect acquires Toronto's PartnerStack in a deal reported at over $150 millionPartnerStack had not raised a dollar since its 2021 Series B and cut a fifth of its staff in 2023; it sold to AppDirect mostly for stock, according to a source who spoke to BetaKit.
Photo: B.alotaby / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · Middle EastFalak Holding acquires majority stake in applied AI company KernelThe Riyadh venture builder took control of Kernel's Saudi and Jordanian operations, including its AI Startup Lab, but will let the company keep running on its own.
Photo: Nesnad / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Commerce & marketing · Latin AmericaInstacart acquires Colombia-founded grocery tech platform InstaleapInstaleap runs online ordering, picking and delivery for about 100 grocers in nearly 30 countries outside North America, giving Instacart a ready-made route into international retail.
Photo: Morgan from Montreal, Quebec, Canada / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · North AmericaSanas acquires real-time voice transformation startup Tomato.aiThe deal, Sanas's third acquisition in under two years, brings in Tomato.ai's carrier and VoIP integrations and puts co-founder Ofer Ronen in charge of Sanas's global telecom strategy.Monday, 13 April 2026
Photo: OUSENT / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · IsraelCredo agrees to buy Israeli silicon photonics startup DustPhotonics for up to $1.3 billionCredo is paying $750 million in cash plus stock for a roughly 70-person chip designer whose photonic circuits already sit in transceivers at hyperscale AI clusters, bringing a key optical part in-house.
Photo: Unknown / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainCybersecurity · North AmericaFortreum acquires Kovr.AI, a FedRAMP-authorized AI compliance platformA firm that audits companies for FedRAMP and CMMC is buying a platform that helps companies get ready for those audits, less than a year after Kovr.AI came out of stealth with $3.6 million.
Photo: HaeB / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · North AmericaOpenAI acquires the team behind Hiro, Ethan Bloch's AI personal finance appHiro is shutting its app a week after the deal and deleting user data rather than passing it to OpenAI, which is hiring the team, not the product. It is OpenAI's second personal-finance acquihire in about six months.
Photo: Killarnee / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Proptech · EuropeOtis takes majority stake in WeMaintain, a French elevator-maintenance start-upOtis, which calls service the foundation of its business, now controls a maintenance company that services other makers' lifts too, and is leaving it to run independently under its own name.