We tracked 16 startup acquisitions announced between 18–24 May 2026, across 7 regions. Only 6 disclosed a price, adding up to $720m; the rest kept terms private, which is normal for venture-backed exits.
The largest was Medtronic’s $650m purchase of SPR Therapeutics. Cyera paid $50m for Genie Security.
Cybersecurity accounted for 3 deals and North America for 9.
Thursday, 21 May 2026
Photo: NASA Headquarters / NASA/Keegan Barber / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainEnterprise software · North AmericaCoupa acquires Tonkean to add AI intake and workflow orchestration to its spend platformTonkean, a no-code platform that routes and resolves requests for procurement and legal teams, is Coupa's fourth acquisition in its push to build an AI-driven trade network.
Photo: Kim Scarborough from Chicago, IL / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaCranium AI acquires Aiceberg, an agentic AI security startup, and makes its CEO CTOAll of Aiceberg's staff move to Cranium, and Aiceberg chief executive Alex Schlager becomes Cranium's chief technology officer in charge of merging the two products.
Photo: Thank You (21 Millions+) views / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Fintech · North AmericaSoFi buys loan-servicing startup Peach to grow its technology platform for lendersPeach, an eight-year-old maker of loan management and servicing software, becomes part of the same SoFi unit that houses Galileo and Technisys. SoFi later disclosed that it paid cash.
Photo: Matthew (WMF) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Developer tools · North AmericaSonar acquires Gitar, an AI code review agent built by former Uber platform engineersGitar came out of stealth with $9 million in funding in April 2026. About five weeks later its founders were joining SonarQube's maker to add AI review and automatic CI fixes to its code checks.
Photo: Kurt Kaiser / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Cybersecurity · North AmericaZscaler to acquire Symmetry Systems to map and police what AI agents can reachSymmetry's access graph shows which people, apps and AI agents touch which data. Zscaler wants it as the basis for rules on how millions of autonomous agents talk to systems and to each other.Wednesday, 20 May 2026
Photo: Group29 at English Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaMedtronic agrees to buy SPR Therapeutics for $650 million in cashThe Cleveland company's SPRINT PNS system treats pain with 60 days of nerve stimulation and no permanent implant, giving Medtronic an earlier option in its pain portfolio.
Photo: DogeGamer2015MZT / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Cybersecurity · IsraelCyera buys five-month-old Genie Security in deal estimated at $50 millionGenie Security had five employees and $3 million in seed funding when Cyera bought it, about five months after the Israeli endpoint data-protection startup was founded.
Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaIntegrated Home Care Services acquires Dina, an AI care coordination platform for in-home careDina's founder Ashish V. Shah joins the Florida in-home benefit manager as chief product and technology officer, with plans to expand into 20 to 30 US states.
Photo: BobVillars / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · EuropeMistral AI acquires Emmi AI, a Linz startup building physics AI for industrial simulationEmmi AI was founded in December 2024 and raised Austria's largest seed round a few months later; its 30-plus researchers now join Mistral, and Linz becomes a Mistral office.Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Photo: Almonroth / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Fintech · IndiaOxyzo to buy Zerodha-backed bond platform GoldenPi in ₹42.4 crore share swapThe OfBusiness lending arm will issue about 3.11 lakh new shares worth ₹42.4 crore (about $4.4 million) to GoldenPi's founders and investors, giving it a retail bond business with more than 16 lakh users.
Photo: G2 Esports / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0Consumer & media · AfricaCloud9 buys Kenyan ticketing platform Mtickets in KES 100 million all-stock dealThe Nairobi digital bank, launched only months earlier, paid about KES 100 million (about $773,000) in shares for a ticketing business that has sold more than a million tickets since 2014, and plans to lend to event organisers using its sales data.
Photo: Arild Vågen / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · North AmericaNMI acquires bank payments API provider DwollaAbout 60 Dwolla employees and more than 400 customers move to the embedded payments company, whose combined business now handles close to $700 billion a year, and Dwolla's chief executive becomes NMI's chief operating officer.Monday, 18 May 2026
Photo: Allan Grey / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Climate & agritech · OceaniaGentrack buys Wellington energy pricing startup Factor for NZ$24 millionThe NZX- and ASX-listed utilities software group paid an enterprise value of NZ$24 million (about $14.2 million) from its own cash, with up to NZ$10 million more due if Factor's recurring revenue reaches about NZ$17 million within three years.
Photo: Netha Hussain / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Enterprise software · Middle EastGrowthLabs acquires founder network Startup Gate for EGP 35 millionThe Egyptian ecosystem builder paid EGP 35 million (about $657,000) for a platform that is barely a year old, and plans to merge it with Catalyst OS, its software for running incubators and accelerators.
Photo: Crew crew / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Developer tools · North AmericaAnthropic acquires Stainless, the SDK generator behind OpenAI and Google's official librariesStainless generated every official Anthropic SDK and was also used by rivals OpenAI and Google; Anthropic is shutting down its hosted products, including the SDK generator.
Image: DanceMobility & logistics · EuropeSwapfiets acquires Berlin e-bike subscription startup DanceThe deal adds more than 11,000 e-bikes to the Pon-owned subscription company, taking its combined fleet past 75,000 across 45 cities, while Dance keeps its own brand and chief executive.