Acquisition News
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M&A activity in the AI industry. Acquisition news, mergers, and buyouts involving artificial intelligence companies.
Anthropic acquires Coefficient Bio for ~$400M to expand AI-driven biotech capabilities.
Anthropic has acquired Coefficient Bio, a startup developing an AI platform for biotech tasks such as drug research planning, for approximately $400 million. The acquisition marks Anthropic's entry in...
Nscale acquires Anyscale for $1.65B to own more of the AI compute stack
British AI neocloud Nscale has acquired Anyscale, the software startup behind the open-source Ray framework, for $1.65 billion, Bloomberg reported. Anyscale builds a platform for scaling AI workloads...
OpenRouter’s ~$10B acquisition talks with Stripe signal AI infrastructure consolidation
Financial data indicates that payments giant Stripe may acquire three-year-old AI startup OpenRouter for approximately $10 billion, a 70% premium over its last private valuation. OpenRouter operates a...
Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents
Cyera, a data security company valued at $12 billion after a recent $600 million raise, has signed a letter of intent to acquire Oasis Security for approximately $1 billion, mostly in cash. Oasis, fou...
Cognition acquires AI assistant startup Poke in low nine-figure deal to boost Devin's personality
Cognition, the AI coding startup behind the Devin software engineering agent, has acquired Poke—the consumer AI assistant known for its friendly, conversational interaction style—in a deal valued in t...
Midjourney acquires Co-Star app to build its first dedicated applications
Midjourney has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, with Co-Star founder Banu Guler joining the AI startup as chief design officer. Guler will remain in charge of Co-Star operations while...
Sierra acquires Takeoff, launches Horizon platform for long-horizon enterprise agents
Sierra has acquired AI agent startup Takeoff and launched Horizon, a joint platform for long-running, outcome-driven enterprise agents. Takeoff grew from $0 to nearly eight figures in annual recurring...
Stripe in talks to acquire OpenRouter for ~$10B, consolidating AI infrastructure access layer
Stripe is reportedly in negotiations to acquire OpenRouter, the AI model routing startup that provides a unified API gateway to dozens of large language models, for roughly $10 billion. The deal would...
Sierra Acquires Takeoff to Diversify Its AI Agent Business
Sierra, an AI customer service startup, has acquired agent startup Takeoff to expand its AI agent capabilities and diversify its business offerings. The deal reflects ongoing consolidation in the AI a...
NetApp acquires DataPelago to bring GPU-accelerated processing to storage layer
NetApp (NTAP) has acquired DataPelago, a startup specializing in AI data infrastructure. The deal brings DataPelago's Nucleus universal data processing engine into NetApp's portfolio, enabling GPU-acc...
OpenRouter, the leading API aggregation platform for large language models, is reportedly seeking an...
OpenRouter, the leading API aggregation platform for large language models, is reportedly seeking an acquisition by a major tech company, just two months after raising a $113 million Series B at a $1....
Cribl acquires CardinalOps to add AI threat detection to data infrastructure platform
Data infrastructure startup Cribl has acquired CardinalOps, an AI-driven threat detection company that previously raised $40 million, in a deal valued at approximately $100 million. The acquisition br...
Netflix Paid $587 Million Cash for Ben Affleck's AI Startup InterPositive
Netflix disclosed in a July 2026 regulatory filing that it paid approximately $587 million in cash to acquire InterPositive, the AI production startup founded by Ben Affleck. The deal, announced in Ma...
Netflix acquires Ben Affleck's AI startup InterPositive for ~$587M
Netflix disclosed in an SEC filing that it paid approximately $587 million to acquire InterPositive, the AI startup co-founded by Ben Affleck, in March 2026. The deal, first reported by The Hollywood...
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...