We tracked 10 startup acquisitions announced between 17–23 August 2026, across 3 regions. Only 2 disclosed a price, adding up to $8.08bn; the rest kept terms private, which is normal for venture-backed exits.
The largest was Stripe’s $7.5bn purchase of OpenRouter, which had raised $153m. Munich Re paid $575m for At-Bay.
Cybersecurity accounted for 3 deals and North America for 7.
Wednesday, 19 August 2026
Photo: Conor McCabe / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · North AmericaStripe agrees to acquire AI model router OpenRouter in its largest deal yetStripe did not name a price, but The New York Times reported about $7.5 billion, nearly six times the $1.3 billion valuation OpenRouter was reported to have reached less than three months earlier.
Photo: Carsten Steger / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · North AmericaMunich Re agrees to buy cyber insurtech At-Bay at a $575 million enterprise valueThe price is well under half the $1.35 billion valuation At-Bay reached in 2021, and the buyer is a long-time partner: Munich Re's HSB unit has backed At-Bay since its founding.
Photo: Larry D. Moore / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaBrinqa acquires pentest reporting platform PlexTracBrinqa ranks which security exposures to fix first; PlexTrac's software lets pentesters prove a fix actually worked. Both companies were backed by Insight Partners.
Photo: Basil D Soufi / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaCribl buys Radiant Security's AI SOC technology in its second security deal of 2026Cribl took the technology and intellectual property behind Radiant's AI security operations product rather than the whole company, and plans to rebuild it as an application on its telemetry platform.
Photo: Cun Cun / Wikimedia Commons, CC0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaKodeon acquires Montreal meditation app Breethe in its largest deal so farBreethe never raised equity, grew on its own revenue to more than $50 million in lifetime sales and over 18 million users, and sold for what a co-founder called an eight-figure sum.Tuesday, 18 August 2026
Photo: Daniel Kraft / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Healthtech & bio · EuropeAepsy acquires Zurich workplace-health startup KinasticThe deal joins two Zurich companies that have worked together since Aepsy's early days, when Kinastic was one of its first platform partners. Combined, they will serve more than 150 Swiss employers.
Photo: amtec_photos / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Fintech · North AmericaCheckr acquires income-verification startup Truv to enter government benefits checksTruv's payroll and bank connections reach 96% of the U.S. workforce, and it already verifies income for state agencies running Medicaid and SNAP, a market Checkr had not served before.
Photo: Santeri Viinamäki / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Cybersecurity · North AmericaFortinet acquires AI security startup Virtue AIVirtue AI was founded by AI safety researchers including Bo Li and Dawn Song and raised $30 million in 2025. Fortinet said the price it paid was immaterial to its business.