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TechCrunch AI
Jun 14, 2026

Meta reportedly moves to unwind $2B Manus deal after Beijing's demand

Meta has begun dismantling its $2 billion acquisition of the Chinese-founded AI startup Manus, completing an operational separation and halting data sharing between the two companies. The move is the most concrete step yet toward complying with a divestiture order Beijing issued roughly two months earlier on national security grounds. Reports say Manus's co-founders have held preliminary talks to raise about $1 billion to reclaim the startup, potentially through a Chinese joint venture structure and an eventual Hong Kong listing.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jun 12, 2026

OpenAI acquires AI agent orchestration startup Ona

OpenAI announced plans to acquire Ona, officially Gitpod GmbH, a startup whose platform manages long-running AI agents by running them in cloud-based sandboxes. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. OpenAI will use Ona's technology to enhance its Codex AI assistant, improving Codex's ability to perform tasks that take hours or days, and the Ona team will join the Codex team.

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Crunchbase News
Jun 11, 2026

Before You Cheer The IPO Window, Watch Where The Money Goes

The reopening of the IPO market in 2026 is a concentration event, not a broad recovery, argues Marc Schroder of venture firm MGV. A small set of giant listings led by SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic dominates the window. The larger effect for most startups is stronger acquisition activity, because newly public AI giants would become some of the best-capitalized buyers on the planet, and M&A, not IPOs, is the exit path for most founders and investors.

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OpenAI
Jun 11, 2026

OpenAI to acquire Ona

OpenAI plans to acquire Ona, the German cloud platform formerly known as Gitpod, to give its Codex coding agent secure environments where work keeps running for hours or days after a developer logs off. Ona has supported about 2 million developers in reproducible cloud sandboxes. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the deal is subject to regulatory approval.

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TechCrunch AI
Jun 10, 2026

Warner Music acquires AI attribution startup Sureel AI

Warner Music Group agreed on June 10, 2026 to acquire Sureel AI, a Palo Alto startup whose technology traces how artificial intelligence systems use songs in training and generated output. Financial terms were not disclosed. Warner wants to track when its artists' and songwriters' work feeds AI models so rights holders share in the value created, and Sureel will keep running as a standalone platform for the wider music and AI industry.

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Zapier AI Blog
Jun 10, 2026

5 ways to automate Meta's Conversions API tool with Zapier

Zapier published a guide showing five no-code ways to feed customer actions into Meta's Conversions API, the server-side tool that sends marketing signals straight to Meta without relying on a browser pixel. The workflows automatically pass events like purchases, form submissions, CRM stage changes, and new email subscribers from apps such as Stripe, Shopify, HubSpot, Salesforce, Typeform, and Klaviyo into Meta so ad targeting stays current. Setup runs through Meta's Events Manager, where Zapier is offered as a partner integration. For tools without a ready-made connection, Webhooks by Zapier sends custom data instead.

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Tech.eu
Jun 9, 2026

Duely secures €1.1M to reinvent M&A legal services with AI

Belgian startup Duely raised €1.1 million in seed funding to expand AI-native legal services for mergers and acquisitions. Scalefund and Golden Egg Check led the round, with ML6 and a group of angel investors from the Belgian and UK technology, finance, and M&A sectors taking part. Instead of selling software to law firms, Duely applies its own AI directly to deal work such as data room preparation, due diligence, and document review.

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Google Cloud AI
May 22, 2026

The Blueprint: How Movix fills a gap in dental skills with specialized agentic AI

Welcome to The Blueprint, a regular feature where we highlight how Google Cloud customers are tackling unique and common challenges across industries using the latest AI and cloud technologies. We hope to inspire others looking to innovate in their work. The demand for dental appliances, like crowns and aligners, is booming, but it's hard for manufacturers to keep up. At Movix, we're building one of the first agentic AI solutions for dental appliance manufacturers and dental labs to help companies in the sector acquire digital technical expertise so they can scale clinical workflows cost-effec

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SiliconANGLE AI
May 13, 2026

Celonis buys decision-intelligence startup Ikigai Labs to provide operational context for enterprise AI

Process mining software company Celonis SE said today it has snapped up the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-linked decision intelligence startup Ikigai Labs Inc., planning to use it to power a new "context model" developed by Celonis that's designed to function as a real-time digital twin of its customers' business operations. Celonis says enterprises are facing a [...] The post Celonis buys decision-intelligence startup Ikigai Labs to provide operational context for enterprise AI appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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SiliconANGLE AI
May 13, 2026

Nebius snaps up Clarifai's compute orchestration tech and talent to enhance AI inference

Dutch artificial intelligence infrastructure giant Nebius Group N.V. said today it's recruiting the core engineering team from AI orchestration software firm Clarifai Inc. in an effort to boost its managed inference services. As part of the deal, Nebius is also snapping up Clarifai's portfolio of patents and licensing its inference and compute orchestration technology, the [...] The post Nebius snaps up Clarifai's compute orchestration tech and talent to enhance AI inference appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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Crunchbase M&A
Apr 15, 2026

I Sold My Startup A Year After Founding It. Here's Why That Was The Fastest Way To Build Real-World Healthcare AI

Although the conventional wisdom in tech is that real ambition means staying independent, sometimes joining forces through an acquisition by a large, established company is what it takes to improve your mission's odds. Guest author Louis Blankemeier, co-founder and CEO of Cognita, explains how that process worked for his healthcare startup.

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TechCrunch M&A
Mar 13, 2026

The $32B acquisition that one VC is calling the 'Deal of the Decade'

According to Index Ventures Partner Shardul Shah, cybersecurity startup Wiz sits "at the center of three tailwinds: AI, cloud, and security spend." Those tailwinds powered what just became the largest venture-backed acquisition in history - Google's $32 billion deal, finalized after a declined 2024 offer, antitrust review on both sides of the Atlantic, and an [...]

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TechCrunch M&A
Mar 11, 2026

Poppi founder on TikTok, Super Bowl ads, and her return to Shark Tank

For years, venture capitalists have been skeptical of beverage startups, citing thin margins and brutal distribution as reasons most brands never break out. But a new wave of "functional soda" companies has been challenging that assumption, including Poppi, the prebiotic soda brand that grew from a kitchen experiment into a $1.95 billion acquisition by PepsiCo. On this episode of [...]

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TechCrunch M&A
Mar 11, 2026

How Poppi went from a Shark Tank pitch to a $1.95B exit

For years, venture capitalists have been skeptical of beverage startups, citing thin margins and brutal distribution as reasons most beverage brands never break out. But a new wave of "functional soda" companies has been challenging that assumption, including Poppi, the prebiotic soda brand that grew from a kitchen experiment into a $1.95 billion acquisition by PepsiCo. On this episode [...]

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TechCrunch M&A
Aug 6, 2025

Figma's IPO success is 'a little bit of a meme stock,' says Sapphire Ventures' Jai Das

Figma managed something rare in today's market: It survived a failed Adobe acquisition, stayed independent, and went public on its own terms. But its post-IPO performance tells a more complex story about startup exits in 2025. "This is a little bit of a meme stock," said Jai Das, president and partner at Sapphire Ventures, on [...]

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