We tracked 11 startup acquisitions announced between 22–28 June 2026, across 3 regions. Only 4 disclosed a price, adding up to $4.43bn; the rest kept terms private, which is normal for venture-backed exits.
The largest was Qualcomm’s $3.92bn purchase of Modular, which had raised $380m. Adobe paid $340m for Topaz Labs.
AI accounted for 3 deals and North America for 9.
Thursday, 25 June 2026
Photo: Coolcaesar / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · North AmericaAdobe acquires AI video and photo enhancement maker Topaz Labs for about $340 millionAdobe left the price out of its announcement; its next quarterly filing showed it agreed to pay about $340 million, mostly in cash, for the maker of Topaz Video, Topaz Photo and Gigapixel, which has built enhancement software for more than two decades.
Photo: Matti Blume / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Proptech · North AmericaPremarket acquires Maklare AI to add buyer-demand data to its private listings networkThe New York network for off-market homes, which says it holds $4 billion of private inventory, bought a startup that turns agents' scattered buyer information into structured demand data, and made its co-founder chief operating officer.
Photo: Hagai Agmon-Snir حچاي اچمون-سنير חגי אגמון-שניר / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · IsraelPriority Software acquires AI cash-flow startup Obol for its cloud ERPThe Blackstone-controlled Israeli ERP vendor bought a 20-person startup whose 100-plus customers are all in the United States, in a deal CTech valued at tens of millions of shekels.Wednesday, 24 June 2026
Photo: Coolcaesar at en.wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0AI · North AmericaQualcomm buys Chris Lattner's AI software startup Modular in stock deal worth about $3.9 billionModular's owners get up to 19.2 million Qualcomm shares, worth about $3.92 billion on Reuters' count, roughly 2.5 times the $1.6 billion valuation the startup reached nine months earlier.
Photo: Cbuske46 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Climate & agritech · North AmericaMSCI buys climate risk data startup First Street for $120 million in cashThe index provider is paying $120 million upfront, plus possible earnouts, for a company that models flood, wildfire, wind and heat damage for more than 2 billion buildings and found that firms grew 6.5 times as likely to issue profit warnings after extreme weather.
Photo: David Anstiss / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Edtech · Latin AmericaLiveKid acquires Mexican childcare software maker Aldea to grow in Latin AmericaThe Polish platform, which handles more than $400 million a year in tuition and childcare payments, bought a Monterrey company that built the same kind of software for daycares in Mexico, Colombia and Chile.Tuesday, 23 June 2026
Photo: Torsten Dettlaff / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · North AmericaBackbase acquires Kasisto, maker of AI assistants for banksThe Amsterdam banking software company is folding Kasisto's agentic AI platform, used by lenders such as J.P. Morgan and TD, into its Banking OS and gaining a New York team in its biggest growth market.
Photo: Troutfarm27 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · North AmericaSoFi acquires Composer, an AI tool for building automated trading strategiesSoFi relaunched the Toronto-founded startup as Composer by SoFi, letting investors describe a strategy in plain English and have AI turn it into rules they can test and automate.
Photo: mattbuck (category) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0AI · North AmericaSuperhuman, formerly Grammarly, agrees to acquire AI detector GPTZeroGPTZero, which began as a Princeton senior thesis, reported more than 19 million registered users and about $30 million in annual recurring revenue after raising just $13.5 million.Monday, 22 June 2026
Photo: Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaF5 buys shadow-AI detection startup SurePath AI for $50.1 millionF5 announced the deal without a price, but its quarterly filing later showed it paid $50.1 million for the Denver company, about eight times the $6.3 million SurePath had raised.
Photo: EllalineSeoul / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Edtech · North AmericaBARBRI acquires Lega, a Brooklyn startup that trains lawyers to use AILega started out selling AI governance software to big law firms, then turned to hands-on AI workshops and hackathons. Its founder now becomes BARBRI's head of innovation.