We tracked 8 startup acquisitions announced between 26 October – 1 November 2026, across 5 regions. Only 3 disclosed a price, adding up to $3bn; the rest kept terms private, which is normal for venture-backed exits.
The largest was Intel’s $2.3bn purchase of Classiq, which had raised $200m. Itaú Unibanco paid $588m for NeoSpace.
AI accounted for 2 deals and North America for 3.
Monday, 26 October 2026
Image: ClassiqDeveloper tools · IsraelIntel agrees to buy Israeli quantum software startup Classiq for about $2.3 billionThe cash-and-stock deal is the largest acquisition in quantum computing so far and would turn Intel's quantum group into a full-stack business, from spin-qubit chips to the software that programs them.
Photo: CORRETOR-CARVALHO / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0AI · Latin AmericaItaú Unibanco agrees to buy Brazilian AI startup NeoSpace for about $588 millionItaú is paying BRL 2.925 billion, part of it deferred over five years, for a startup it helped fund in early 2025, so that it owns the models already trained on its own data.
Photo: Peter Shanks from Hobart, Australia / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Enterprise software · East AsiaSG Micro agrees to buy control of Shanghai sensor chip startup Sensylink for RMB 833 millionThe analog chipmaker is paying about $115 million in cash for 58.3% of a venture-backed sensor designer valued at RMB 1.43 billion, calling it a horizontal tie-up between complementary chip lines.
Photo: Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Legal & compliance · North AmericaClio acquires Page, a Waterloo AI startup that tracks government and regulatory decisionsClio's ninth acquisition brings a 12-person team whose software monitors bills, regulations and hearings in more than 80 jurisdictions into its Vincent product.
Image: Beyond CivicData & analytics · EuropeELCA takes majority stake in Lucerne data governance startup Beyond CivicThe Swiss IT services group is buying control of a four-year-old company whose TrustSphere software runs data-sharing ecosystems between public bodies and private firms, and will keep it independent.
Photo: Quintin Soloviev / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Commerce & marketing · North AmericaStagwell acquires publisher ad monetisation company FreestarThe marketing group gets a network of more than 1,000 publishers serving nearly a billion ad requests a day, and plans to use Freestar's inventory and data to train its AI media-buying system.
Photo: quapan / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0AI · IsraelUnconventional AI agrees to buy Israeli inference chipmaker NeuRealityNaveen Rao's year-old chip startup, valued at $4.5 billion, is buying a team that has already taken silicon to production, after its own research moved faster than planned.
Image: Zafin (press release)Fintech · North AmericaZafin agrees to acquire bank marketing compliance software maker NaehasZafin's first deal since Nordic Capital took control adds about 250 people and, Zafin says, a combined client list that covers 16 of the 20 largest US banks.