We tracked 8 startup acquisitions announced between 19–25 October 2026, across 3 regions. Only 2 disclosed a price, adding up to $70m; the rest kept terms private, which is normal for venture-backed exits.
The largest was Boomi’s $40m purchase of Elementary, which had raised $8.5m. Kapital paid $30m for Woz.
AI accounted for 2 deals and North America for 5. 1 deal was an acquihire.
Monday, 19 October 2026
Image: ElementaryData & analytics · IsraelBoomi acquires Israeli data observability startup ElementaryCTech put the cash-and-stock deal at about $40-45 million, a figure Boomi has not confirmed. It is Boomi's third purchase of an Israeli company, and all 17 of Elementary's employees will join.
Photo: Thomas Roessler / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Developer tools · North AmericaMexican fintech Kapital agrees to buy AI coding startup Woz for $30 millionThe cash-and-stock deal brings Woz's two co-founders in as Kapital's head of AI and chief technology officer. Forbes México first reported the purchase in early October, about two weeks before Kapital's formal announcement.
Photo: Schuetze75 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0AI · EuropeApple bought the assets of Zurich AI audio startup Samplab, EU filing showsSamplab's software could pull individual notes out of a recording and edit them. Apple took its assets and some staff in June, and the deal surfaced only this week.
Photo: Tamorlan / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0Commerce & marketing · EuropeInvestcorp takes majority stake in Spanish e-commerce marketing platform ConnectifThe deal is the first Spanish investment for Investcorp Technology Partners and the sixth from its $570 million Fund V. Connectif says its software serves more than 3,000 brands; neither side disclosed the price or the size of the stake.
Photo: Wladyslaw (talk) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Fintech · North AmericaKORT Payments agrees to buy Toronto real-time payments company AptPayThe deal moves KORT beyond card acceptance into account-to-account payments and payouts. AptPay will keep its brand and its chief executive, Shams Syed, as a KORT division once the purchase closes, which the companies expect in the fourth quarter of 2026.
Photo: AudreyMurray / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Consumer & media · North AmericaMecka AI acquihires the founders of Ottawa social app ThirdspaceRobot training-data company Mecka AI bought Thirdspace in a cash-and-stock deal for its two founders, who now run the mobile app Mecka uses to collect video from homes.
Photo: Victor Grigas / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0AI · North AmericaOpenWorld signs all-stock merger deal to buy tokenization AI agent maker BlocksightThe Nasdaq-listed company, formerly VerifyMe, will issue 641,924 shares, equal to 4% of its fully diluted capitalization, and plans to build Blocksight's agents into its platform for tokenized real-world assets.
Photo: Alex Sergeev (www.asergeev.com) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Consumer & media · North AmericaQatar's Snoonu buys Y Combinator-backed food video app BiteSightBiteSight reached No. 2 in the US App Store's Food & Drink chart, ahead of Uber Eats and McDonald's. Its founders will now build from Qatar for Snoonu.