We tracked 10 startup acquisitions announced between 21–27 September 2026, across 4 regions. Only 1 disclosed a price, adding up to $50m; the rest kept terms private, which is normal for venture-backed exits.
The largest was Venn’s $50m purchase of Zuma.
Fintech accounted for 2 deals and North America for 6.
Thursday, 24 September 2026
Image: Row ZeroData & analytics · North AmericaDatabricks acquires Seattle spreadsheet startup Row Zero to add spreadsheets to its Genie AI agentRow Zero's spreadsheet handles billions of rows and reads live, permissioned data. Databricks plans to make it the hands-on workspace for Genie, its AI assistant for business teams.
Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Developer tools · North AmericaLiveKit acquires Loophole Labs to make its AI agents start in under three secondsLiveKit is buying a hypervisor rather than a product: Loophole Labs' virtualization technology and its eight engineers will be used to start agents faster and absorb sudden spikes in demand.
Tuesday, 22 September 2026
Photo: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Proptech · North AmericaVenn acquires a16z-backed AI leasing startup Zuma for $50 millionVenn is folding Zuma's AI leasing agents into its real estate platform as it heads toward one million homes under management. Zuma's founders are taking senior roles at Venn.
Photo: Clinton Nyabuto / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · AfricaLuno acquires Kenya's GTXN to own its cross-border payment railsThe crypto exchange bought GTXN, a Nairobi payments provider and licensed fund manager, so enterprise transfers between developed and emerging markets can settle on infrastructure Luno owns. It is founder Dan Kleinbaum's second exit in six years.
Image: PimentoAI · EuropeMistral AI acquires Paris ad-creation startup Pimento in its third deal of 2026The Pimento team is joining Mistral to work on Vibe, its chat assistant. Reported prices for the deal range from about €3.8 million to €12.7 million, and Mistral has only said it cost several million euros.Monday, 21 September 2026
Image: M7 HealthHealthtech & bio · North AmericaAscend Learning acquires nurse-scheduling startup M7 HealthAscend, which already trains nursing students and tracks nurses' competencies, is adding the software that decides who works which hospital shift, a year after M7 raised a $10 million Series A.
Photo: Maksim Sokolov (maxergon.com) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Fintech · North AmericaBlackLine acquires NetNow to bring credit checks into its invoice-to-cash softwareBlackLine bought NetNow, a Toronto startup that automates B2B credit applications and risk checks, to cover the credit decision a company makes before it sends its first invoice. Terms were not disclosed.
Photo: GyozaDumpling / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Healthtech & bio · North AmericaDexCare acquires Mila Health to extend its AI agents from scheduling to care coordinationDexCare, the patient access company spun out of Providence, bought Seattle-area Mila Health, whose AI agents call, text and chat with patients. It is DexCare's second acquisition, and terms were not disclosed.