Acquisition News
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M&A activity in the AI industry. Acquisition news, mergers, and buyouts involving artificial intelligence companies.
Stakpak acquired by Vercel after $500K pre-seed, extending AI infrastructure acqui-licensing pattern
Egyptian-founded AI infrastructure startup Stakpak has been acquired by cloud platform Vercel for an undisclosed sum, following a $500K pre-seed round led by P1 Ventures with participation from Digita...
Prior Labs exits to SAP for €1B+ after 18 months, defining tabular foundation models for enterprise
Berlin-based frontier AI lab Prior Labs announced today that SAP has acquired the company with more than €1 billion in backing, just 18 months after its founding. The deal, which includes infrastructu...
Meta acquires AI safety startup Virtue AI to bolster agent security capabilities
Meta has acquired Virtue AI, an AI safety startup founded by prominent researcher Li Bo (李博), a Sloan Research Fellowship and MIT TR35 recipient. The acquisition follows a period where Meta was alread...
SpaceX acquires AI coding startup Cursor for $60B, analyst claims model performance surpasses Google
SpaceX has acquired Cursor, the U.S.-based AI coding assistant startup, for $60 billion, according to a Nikkei/CB Insights analyst report. The article states that the acquired company’s AI model perfo...
SAP Acquires Prior Labs in €1B Bet on Tabular Foundation Models
SAP has agreed to acquire Prior Labs, a two-year-old German AI startup specializing in tabular foundation models, for over €1 billion over four years. Founded in 2024 by Frank Hutter, Noah Hollmann, a...
Lancium, the power infrastructure developer behind the OpenAI and Oracle data center campus in Texas...
Lancium, the power infrastructure developer behind the OpenAI and Oracle data center campus in Texas, is in preliminary discussions with major tech companies to sell a minority stake. This development...
Nurix AI acquires Verloop.io to build unified voice and chat enterprise AI platform
Mukesh Bansal-led enterprise AI startup Nurix AI has acquired Verloop.io, a conversational AI platform focused on chat-based automation, for an undisclosed sum. The deal adds Verloop's chat automation...
OpenAI deployment unit acquires Northslope, moves into consulting-style services
OpenAI's deployment organization has agreed to acquire Northslope, a consulting and services firm, according to Axios. The deal signals the AI lab's push beyond model development into the kind of hand...
Figma acquires team behind vibe-coding app Bud to push further into AI-powered prototyping.
Figma has acquired the team behind Bud (formerly Orchids), a Y Combinator-backed vibe-coding and AI agent platform. The startup, which let users create apps for mobile, web, Slack, and browser through...
xAI merges into SpaceX and rebrands as SpaceXAI following SpaceX's $750B IPO
Elon Musk's xAI has officially merged into SpaceX and been rebranded as SpaceXAI, a move announced shortly after SpaceX completed a $750 billion initial public offering. The integration folds xAI's Gr...
Bending Spoons, the little-known Milan-based tech conglomerate that owns AOL, Vimeo, Evernote, WeTra...
Bending Spoons, the little-known Milan-based tech conglomerate that owns AOL, Vimeo, Evernote, WeTransfer, Meetup, and Eventbrite, went public on the Nasdaq this week, briefly reaching a market capita...
Datadog Acquires Adaptive ML to Bolster Specialized AI Agent Observability and Training
Datadog has acquired Adaptive ML, a startup that helps enterprises build, own, and deploy specialized AI agents and models using its Adaptive Engine platform. The platform enables fine-tuning of open...
Schneider Electric Acquires Industrial AI Firm Cognite for $3.1 Billion
French energy management giant Schneider Electric has agreed to acquire Norwegian industrial AI software company Cognite for $3.1 billion. Cognite specializes in AI-powered data management and analyti...
Rebellion acquires SqueezeBits to build end-to-end AI inference infrastructure
South Korean AI chip startup Rebellion (리벨리온) has acquired SqueezeBits (스퀴즈비츠), an AI inference optimization specialist. The deal, announced June 30, brings together Rebellion’s Neural Processing Unit...
Adobe acquires Topaz Labs to bolster AI upscaling and image enhancement capabilities
Adobe announced on June 25, 2026, that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Topaz Labs, a company specializing in AI-powered photo and video enhancement. Topaz Labs is known for its t...
MoEngage acquires AI agent startup Aampe for tens of millions in all-cash deal
MoEngage, a customer engagement platform, has acquired Aampe, an AI agent startup, for a tens-of-millions all-cash deal. Aampe specializes in building AI agents that automate personalized user communi...
Qualcomm announced the acquisition of AI startup Modular for under $4 billion, marking a major step...
Qualcomm announced the acquisition of AI startup Modular for under $4 billion, marking a major step in the chipmaker's AI strategy. Modular develops AI platforms that enable developers to build and de...
Astral founder Charlie Marsh acquired by OpenAI for hundreds of millions, discusses AI hype in developer tools
OpenAI has acquired Astral, the company behind the popular Python toolchain Ruff and package manager uv, for a nine-figure sum. Founder Charlie Marsh and his team will join OpenAI's Codex agent team,...
MoonPay acquires AI accounting agent startup Entendre. MoonPay, the cryptocurrency payments and stab...
MoonPay acquires AI accounting agent startup Entendre. MoonPay, the cryptocurrency payments and stablecoin infrastructure company, has acquired Entendre, an AI-powered accounting automation platform p...
Qualcomm in talks to acquire AI chip startup Modular
Qualcomm is reportedly in discussions to acquire Modular, an AI chip startup whose Mojo programming language and modular inference engine promised to bridge the gap between hardware and software perfo...