AcquiredStartups
Weekly roundup · 15–21 June 2026

14 startup exits in the week of 15–21 June 2026: SpaceX’s $60bn deal for Cursor leads

2 deals disclosed a price, worth $63.6bn together. Cybersecurity was the busiest sector and North America the busiest region.

SpaceX agrees to buy Cursor maker Anysphere in a $60 billion all-stock dealPhoto: Jenny Hautmann / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

We tracked 14 startup acquisitions announced between 15–21 June 2026, across 5 regions. Only 2 disclosed a price, adding up to $63.6bn; the rest kept terms private, which is normal for venture-backed exits.

The largest was SpaceX’s $60bn purchase of Cursor. Salesforce paid $3.6bn for Fin.

Cybersecurity accounted for 6 deals and North America for 9.

Wednesday, 17 June 2026

Photo: Dllu / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Commerce & marketing · North AmericaBlueConic acquires Blueshift to pair its customer data platform with AI cross-channel messagingThe deal puts BlueConic's real-time customer profiles and Blueshift's email, push, in-app, SMS and web execution in one product, with more than 600 brands as combined customers.UndisclosedSan Francisco·17 June 2026·3 min readPhoto: Anirudh Koul / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · North AmericaDeepL acquires Mixhalo to bring live voice translation to stadiums and conferencesMixhalo, co-founded by Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger, streams audio to thousands of listeners within 20 milliseconds, and it was already using DeepL as its main translation engine before the two companies combined.UndisclosedSan Francisco·17 June 2026·3 min readPhoto: Zalasem1 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaModel N acquires Kalderos to add claims-level 340B drug discount dataModel N's own research found that only 1% of life sciences revenue leaders had real-time visibility into 340B discounts and government rebates; buying Kalderos gives it claims-level data across those programs.UndisclosedChicago·17 June 2026·3 min readPhoto: Atadokoro / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaQuest Software acquires Anetac to monitor machine and AI-agent identitiesAnetac emerged from stealth only two years earlier with $16 million; Quest is buying it to watch service accounts, bots and AI agents, which it says now outnumber human users by up to 82 to 1.UndisclosedLos Altos·17 June 2026·3 min read

Tuesday, 16 June 2026

Photo: Jenny Hautmann / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Developer tools · North AmericaSpaceX agrees to buy Cursor maker Anysphere in a $60 billion all-stock dealSpaceX exercised an option it had secured in April, choosing a $60 billion all-stock purchase of the AI code editor's parent over a $10 billion partnership payment, about twice the valuation Cursor's investors set seven months earlier.$1bn+San Francisco·16 June 2026·3 min readPhoto: Bill Boaden / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0HR & work · EuropeCitation Group acquires London payroll startup PayCaptainCompliance software group Citation bought PayCaptain, the UK's first B Corp-certified payroll provider, to add payroll to the HR and health and safety tools it sells to small businesses. It is Citation's second payroll purchase in a year.UndisclosedLondon·16 June 2026·3 min readPhoto: MockingBird45 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaDatabricks agrees to buy Panther to build out its security lakehouseDatabricks will fold Panther, an AI security operations platform once valued at $1.4 billion, into Lakewatch, its challenger to traditional SIEM tools. It is Databricks' third security acquisition.UndisclosedSan Francisco·16 June 2026·3 min readPhoto: rawpixel.com / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Healthtech & bio · East AsiaOMRON Healthcare acquires Calomeal maker Life Log Technology to pair meal and blood-pressure dataBlood-pressure monitor maker OMRON Healthcare is taking full ownership of Life Log Technology, whose Calomeal app estimates calories and nutrients from meal photos for more than 6.7 million users in Japan.UndisclosedTokyo·16 June 2026·3 min read

Monday, 15 June 2026

Photo: InvadingInvader / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · North AmericaSalesforce agrees to buy Fin, formerly Intercom, for $3.6 billionSalesforce agreed to pay about $3.6 billion for Fin, the customer-support company that renamed itself after its AI agent a month earlier. Fin says the agent serves more than 30,000 businesses and will sit alongside Salesforce's Agentforce.$1bn+San Francisco·15 June 2026·3 min readPhoto: Jchmrt / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Cybersecurity · Israel1Password acquires just-in-time access startup Apono to govern AI agents' permissionsGlobes reported a price of more than $250 million, over twice the $115 million valuation at which Apono raised money about seven months earlier, and most of the shares were held by its roughly 80 employees.UndisclosedTel Aviv·15 June 2026·3 min readPhoto: USDAgov / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainCybersecurity · North AmericaA10 Networks acquires TrojAI, a Saint John startup that tests and guards AI modelsA10 Networks bought TrojAI, a 22-person New Brunswick company that attacks AI models and agents before launch and blocks threats once they are live. The team stays in Saint John, and the price was not disclosed.UndisclosedSaint John·15 June 2026·3 min readPhoto: Steve / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Cybersecurity · IsraelSailPoint buys Entro Security to govern the credentials behind AI agentsSailPoint agreed to buy Tel Aviv-based Entro, which finds and watches the keys, tokens and secrets that machines and AI agents use. The deal closed two weeks later; Calcalist reported a value of about $200 million.UndisclosedTel Aviv·15 June 2026·3 min read