We tracked 8 startup acquisitions announced between 10–16 August 2026, across 4 regions. Only 2 disclosed a price, adding up to $1.74bn; the rest kept terms private, which is normal for venture-backed exits.
The largest was Dynatrace’s $915m purchase of Arize AI, which had raised $130m. Jazz Pharmaceuticals paid $820m for Actio Biosciences.
Fintech accounted for 2 deals and North America for 4.
Thursday, 13 August 2026
Photo: Mark Sengstbratl/Dynatrace / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0AI · North AmericaDynatrace to acquire AI observability startup Arize for $915 millionThe deal joins a tool AI teams use to test models and agents before release with Dynatrace's software for watching applications in production, and both Arize founders move to Dynatrace.
Photo: Beyond My Ken / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · North AmericaCiti agrees to acquire rewards platform Kard to personalize card offersKard's API lets banks and fintechs serve merchant-funded cash-back offers based on card transaction data. Citi wants to put it in front of its roughly 70 million U.S. cardmembers.
Photo: Basile Morin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Commerce & marketing · Southeast AsiaGraas acquires product data startup Trustana alongside $17 million Series BThe Singapore retail AI company bought a Temasek-incubated startup that cleans up product catalogues for retailers such as David Jones and Chemist Warehouse, to give its AI agents better data to work with.
Image: CyberPilotCybersecurity · EuropeSEPPmail acquires Danish security-awareness startup CyberPilotThe Swiss email-encryption vendor bought the Aarhus training and phishing-simulation company to cover the risk its software cannot: the employee who clicks. It is the second deal in a plan, backed by LEA Partners, to build a European-only email security platform.
Monday, 10 August 2026
Photo: Unknown / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaJazz Pharmaceuticals to buy Actio Biosciences for $820 million upfrontJazz is paying for one drug: ABS-1230, an oral pill for a rare childhood epilepsy with no approved treatment. Actio's other programs will be spun out into a new company in which Jazz takes a minority stake.
Photo: Brandon Leon / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Climate & agritech · North AmericaFM acquires wildfire risk startup FortressFireFortressFire models whether a single building is likely to catch fire in a wildfire, and will keep its brand and founder-CEO Michael Ashker as an independent division of the commercial property insurer.
Photo: ESA_events / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Mobility & logistics · IndiaGalaxEye acquires Bengaluru spacecraft engineering startup StarOpsThe deal gives the OptoSAR satellite maker its own qualified satellite bus platforms in the 50 kg, 150 kg and 250 kg classes, after the startup lost contact with its first satellite, Drishti, launched in May.