Acquisition News
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M&A activity in the AI industry. Acquisition news, mergers, and buyouts involving artificial intelligence companies.
OpenAI has agreed to acquire Promptfoo, an 11-person AI security startup valued at $86M, to embed au...
OpenAI has agreed to acquire Promptfoo, an 11-person AI security startup valued at $86M, to embed automated red-teaming and vulnerability testing into its enterprise platform OpenAI Frontier. Promptfo...
Apple acquired Israeli AI startup Q.ai for ~$2B, its second-largest deal ever after Beats. Q.ai read...
Apple acquired Israeli AI startup Q.ai for ~$2B, its second-largest deal ever after Beats. Q.ai reads facial micro-movements to interpret silent speech and enhance audio in noisy settings, with ~100 e...
Snowflake is acquiring AI observability startup Observe for ~$1B, its 19th acquisition to date. Obse...
Snowflake is acquiring AI observability startup Observe for ~$1B, its 19th acquisition to date. Observe raised over $460M in venture funding, and its native integration into Snowflake's AI Data Cloud...
Netflix acquired InterPositive, Ben Affleck's AI filmmaking startup, for up to $600M — one of its la...
Netflix acquired InterPositive, Ben Affleck's AI filmmaking startup, for up to $600M — one of its largest deals ever. InterPositive builds custom AI models trained on a production's own footage to han...
OpenAI acquired Astral, creator of uv and Ruff — open-source Python tools with 300M+ combined monthl...
OpenAI acquired Astral, creator of uv and Ruff — open-source Python tools with 300M+ combined monthly downloads powering millions of developer workflows. The team joins Codex, OpenAI's coding platform...
Apple confirmed its $1.5B acquisition of Israeli AI startup Q.ai — its second-largest deal ever — fo...
Apple confirmed its $1.5B acquisition of Israeli AI startup Q.ai — its second-largest deal ever — for technology that reads facial micro-movements to interpret silent speech and whispers. Anthropic's...
Swedish legal AI unicorn Legora has acquired Canadian agentic AI startup Walter AI in its first-ever...
Swedish legal AI unicorn Legora has acquired Canadian agentic AI startup Walter AI in its first-ever acquisition, just days after raising $550 million at a $5.55 billion valuation. This move signals t...
Google finalized its $32 billion acquisition of Wiz, marking the largest deal in the company's histo...
Google finalized its $32 billion acquisition of Wiz, marking the largest deal in the company's history and the biggest exit for Israeli tech. Wiz, which serves 50% of Fortune 100 companies and surpass...
Zendesk announced it will acquire Forethought, an AI-powered customer support automation startup tha...
Zendesk announced it will acquire Forethought, an AI-powered customer support automation startup that raised $117M, to accelerate the shift toward fully autonomous customer service agents. The deal wi...
Meta has acquired Moltbook, the viral AI agent social network that attracted millions of registered...
Meta has acquired Moltbook, the viral AI agent social network that attracted millions of registered bots within weeks of its January 2026 launch. This acquisition brings CEO Matt Schlicht and COO Ben...
Meta acquired Manus, a Singapore-based autonomous AI agent startup, for over $2 billion, marking its...
Meta acquired Manus, a Singapore-based autonomous AI agent startup, for over $2 billion, marking its third-largest acquisition ever. Manus represents a fundamental shift from chatbots to autonomous ag...
OpenAI has acquired Promptfoo, an AI security startup trusted by over 25% of Fortune 500 companies,...
OpenAI has acquired Promptfoo, an AI security startup trusted by over 25% of Fortune 500 companies, to integrate into its Frontier platform for managing AI agents. This signals that AI agent security...
Meta has hired the engineering team behind Gizmo, an AI-powered vibe-coding app that reached 600K+ i...
Meta has hired the engineering team behind Gizmo, an AI-powered vibe-coding app that reached 600K+ installs with just $5.49M in seed funding. The ex-Snapchat team joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs,...
Oura ($11B, 5.5M rings sold) acquired Doublepoint for gesture recognition 🔵 transforming its ring f...
Oura ($11B, 5.5M rings sold) acquired Doublepoint for gesture recognition 🔵 transforming its ring from health tracker to AI interface. Using existing sensors for micro-gestures, users control devices...
Netflix has acquired InterPositive, Ben Affleck's stealth AI filmmaking startup founded in 2022, bri...
Netflix has acquired InterPositive, Ben Affleck's stealth AI filmmaking startup founded in 2022, bringing the entire 16-person team in-house while Affleck joins as senior adviser. Unlike generative AI...
Procode AI emerged from stealth with $4M funding and acquired The Auctus Group, deploying an AI roll...
Procode AI emerged from stealth with $4M funding and acquired The Auctus Group, deploying an AI roll-up strategy in the $15B surgical billing market. Their AI coding copilot achieves 90% faster coding...
Harvey just made its second acquisition of 2026, acquiring Lume, a Y Combinator-backed AI data integ...
Harvey just made its second acquisition of 2026, acquiring Lume, a Y Combinator-backed AI data integration startup with $4.2M in funding. This follows their January Hexus acquisition and signals a str...
Fractional AI has acquired Fabius, a Y Combinator Winter 2023 startup, to expand its applied AI serv...
Fractional AI has acquired Fabius, a Y Combinator Winter 2023 startup, to expand its applied AI services for enterprises and private equity-backed companies. This consolidation signals a maturing AI s...
MyFitnessPal has acquired Cal AI, the AI-powered calorie tracking app built by two 19-year-old found...
MyFitnessPal has acquired Cal AI, the AI-powered calorie tracking app built by two 19-year-old founders that reached 15 million+ downloads and $40M in sales within two years. This deal marks a signifi...
Procode AI emerged from stealth with $4M funding and acquired The Auctus Group, the leading RCM prov...
Procode AI emerged from stealth with $4M funding and acquired The Auctus Group, the leading RCM provider for 300+ plastic surgery and dermatology practices. Their AI Coding Copilot achieves 90% faster...