We tracked 12 startup acquisitions announced between 20–26 July 2026, across 6 regions. None disclosed a price.
AI accounted for 5 deals and North America for 7. 1 deal was an acquihire.
Friday, 24 July 2026
Photo: epSos.de / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · IsraelMicrochip agrees to acquire Israeli edge AI chipmaker HailoHailo was once valued above $1 billion; after a failed SPAC merger and cutting half its staff, it agreed to sell to Microchip at a price Calcalist said was well below the capital it had raised.
Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · North AmericaNotion acquires ZeroEntropy, the retrieval-model startup behind its search rerankerNotion was a ZeroEntropy customer first: the startup's reranker made Notion's unified search up to 30% faster before the whole team was hired to start a model research group.Thursday, 23 July 2026
Photo: William John Gauthier from Denmark / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0AI · EuropeAiven acquires Flow AI, the Finnish team behind Flowrite, to run AI agents next to customer dataFlow AI started as Flowrite, an AI email-writing tool with hundreds of thousands of users, before pivoting to infrastructure for analytical AI agents.
Photo: Rob-Jeanette Folwell / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Travel & hospitality · AfricaGlampings.com agrees to buy Conservio, a Cape Town booking site for safari and nature staysThe deal adds about 1,000 Southern African properties to the Dutch platform's roughly 4,500 European listings and takes it outside Europe for the first time.
Photo: W.carter / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0AI · North AmericaSierra acquires Takeoff, a three-person long-horizon AI agent startup, to build HorizonTakeoff said it went from no recurring revenue at the start of 2026 to nearly eight figures by early July with three people, then chose to join Sierra rather than hire a sales team and raise again.Tuesday, 21 July 2026
Photo: Yair-haklai / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Mobility & logistics · North AmericaAltana acquires Cervo AI to automate customs entry writing for logistics providersCervo's software turns emails, EDI feeds and PDFs into submission-ready customs filings, the step Altana's platform did not cover, in a brokerage market Altana puts at about $45 billion.
Photo: Intel Free Press / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaMindoula acquires virtual mental health provider Valera Health and Janus Healthcare PartnersThe two deals add Valera's group of more than 300 clinicians to Mindoula and give the Maryland company a psychiatric collaborative care business as it pushes into value-based contracts.
Photo: Intel Free Press / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Developer tools · North AmericaPalo Alto Networks buys Embrace to add real user monitoring to its observability platformThe deal, which closed on 27 August, is Palo Alto Networks' second observability purchase of 2026, following the $3.35 billion Chronosphere deal completed in January.
Photo: DXR / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Commerce & marketing · OceaniaTracksuit acquires Hall, a Sydney startup that tracks how brands show up in AI chatbotsHall, which had raised A$2 million (about US$1.3 million) from Blackbird, now gives Tracksuit a way to measure what AI assistants say about a brand alongside what people think of it.
Photo: Oceanic7777 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaWildflower Health acquires Every Mother, a digital pelvic floor and core health programThe deal gives Wildflower, which reaches women through insurers and OB-GYN practices, its first direct-to-consumer product.
Photo: N509FZ / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · East AsiaZhipu takes control of AI compiler startup xCore Sigma as it builds a 1GW domestic-chip data centreBusiness registry records show a Zhipu entity now holds about 60% of xCore Sigma after 15 earlier shareholders, including a state-backed Beijing AI fund, exited.