ACQUISITIONS
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Acquisitions
M&A, exits, take-privates and consolidation across technology.
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Adobe Acquires AI Video Startup Reframe in Cash-and-Stock Deal
The three-year-old company had raised $58 million and shipped its first paid product in January.
Qualcomm Completes Its Acquisition of Modular
The chipmaker is bringing a hardware-neutral AI software platform into its edge-to-cloud strategy.
Private Equity Returns to Take-Private Software Deals
Cheaper debt and depressed mid-cap multiples have reopened a market that stalled in 2023.
Midjourney Acquires Astrology App Co-Star
The image-generation company is adding a consumer product team as it prepares standalone applications.
Cognition Acquires the Company Behind Poke
The maker of coding agent Devin is adding a proactive assistant built around text messaging.
Elastic Agrees to Acquire Deductive AI
The observability company is adding an AI investigation system for production incidents.
Whatnot Acquires Shaped for Real-Time Shopping Recommendations
The live-commerce marketplace is forming an applied AI research group around Shaped's ranking technology.
Figma Acquires Team Behind AI App Builder Bud
The design platform is bringing agent development and code generation closer to its collaborative canvas.
Adobe Agrees to Acquire Topaz Labs
The creative-software company is adding specialized AI models for image and video enhancement.
Riviera Partners Acquires Lateral Labs
The executive-search firm is adding an AI-focused recruiting team with startup customers.
Superhuman Agrees to Acquire AI Detection Company GPTZero
The productivity platform is adding authenticity tools used by educators, publishers and employers.
DeepL Acquires Mixhalo and Opens Silicon Valley Office
The translation company is combining voice AI with ultra-low-latency audio for events and meetings.
SpaceX Agrees to Buy Cursor Maker Anysphere
The $60 billion stock deal would place one of the fastest-growing coding tools inside SpaceX's AI business.
Databricks Agrees to Acquire Security Platform Panther
The data company is adding an AI security-operations center to its expanding lakehouse strategy.
Salesforce Agrees to Buy Fin for $3.6 Billion
The planned acquisition would add a fast-growing customer-service agent to Agentforce.
Meta Begins Unwinding Its $2 Billion Manus Acquisition
The operational separation follows a Chinese order that turned a strategic AI deal into a cross-border test.
SpaceX Completes Record $75 Billion Public Offering
The rocket and satellite company entered Nasdaq trading at a valuation above $1.7 trillion.
OpenAI Files Confidentially for a U.S. Initial Public Offering
The ChatGPT maker joined Anthropic in a high-stakes race to bring frontier AI companies to public markets.
Waymo Buys Apple's Former Vehicle Test Site for $220 Million
The 5,500-acre Arizona proving ground gives Waymo a closed course for expanding robotaxi development.
Anthropic Confidentially Files for U.S. IPO
The Claude developer moved ahead of OpenAI as frontier AI companies prepare for public scrutiny.