We tracked 9 startup acquisitions announced between 14–20 September 2026, across 4 regions. Only 2 disclosed a price, adding up to $1.79bn; the rest kept terms private, which is normal for venture-backed exits.
The largest was Grab’s $1.49bn purchase of Atome Financial. Sword Health paid $300m for Headspace.
AI accounted for 3 deals and North America for 6.
Thursday, 17 September 2026
Photo: King of Hearts / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · North AmericaBeacon Software acquires AI red-teaming startup Haize LabsHaize Labs, valued at $100 million in 2024 after a round led by General Catalyst, will stop being a standalone vendor and become the in-house AI research group for Beacon's 45 software companies.
Photo: Solomon203 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0HR & work · IndiaUnstop acquires AI talent-assessment startup PerspectAI in all-equity dealUnstop, whose own first institutional round was $5 million in 2023, is buying a profitable assessment business whose clients include Tata Sons, Aditya Birla Capital, Swiggy and Motilal Oswal, without paying cash.
Tuesday, 15 September 2026
Photo: S5A-0043 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Fintech · Southeast AsiaGrab agrees to buy 60% of BNPL lender Atome Financial for $1.49 billion in cashGrab is paying $1.49 billion for control of Atome Financial now and has committed to buy the remaining 40% about two years later, at a price set by a formula with a $2 billion floor and a $4.5 billion cap.
Photo: Kuhnmi / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · EuropeEndra acquires Swiss AI startup Planlabs to move into mechanical engineeringThe a16z-backed Stockholm company, which automates electrical design for buildings, is taking on Planlabs' five-person team to build its mechanical engineering product, with plumbing to follow in 2027.
Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaMedallion acquires credentials verification organisation AndrosThe deal puts more than one million healthcare providers across nearly 400 organisations and health plans on Medallion's AI-assisted credentialing platform, which the company says makes it the largest of its kind in the US.Monday, 14 September 2026
Photo: Rodhullandemu / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaHello Patient acquires Converse Health to add back-office AI agents for medical practicesThe Austin company, whose AI agents answer patients' calls and texts, is buying a 2023 startup whose software reads faxes, finds overdue follow-ups in the chart and drafts prior authorization requests.
Image: FathomAI · North AmericaSuperhuman acquires AI meeting notetaker FathomRather than build its own notetaker, the company formerly known as Grammarly bought Fathom, which has more than 400,000 monthly active users, to feed meeting transcripts into its email, docs and AI agents.
Image: Sidero LabsDeveloper tools · North AmericaYardi acquires Sidero Labs, maker of the Talos Linux operating system for KubernetesThe property management software company was already running Talos in production before it bought the startup; Talos stays open source, and Sidero announced a hypervisor product on the same day.