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Stripe's Acquisition Pace Has Accelerated In The Past Five Years, But Nothing Comes Close To Its Reported $53B PayPal Bet
Payments giant Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have teamed up to make an offer to buy troubled PayPal in a deal valued at more than $53 billion, Reuters reported Wednesday.
Mercor buys Deeptune to build training environments for AI agents
Artificial intelligence training data company Mercor.io Corp. announced today that it has acquired Deeptune Inc., a startup that builds simulated software environments used to train AI agents. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal closed nearly four months after Mercor Chief Executive Brendan Foody wrote a personal angel check into Deeptune's $43 million Series A [...] The post Mercor buys Deeptune to build training environments for AI agents appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Crunchbase Data: Global Startup Investment Hit Record $510B In H1 2026 As AI Boom Accelerates Funding And Exits
Investors poured more than $200 billion into startups globally in the just-ended quarter, making Q2 2026 the second-largest quarter on record, our data shows. And, with IPOs and acquisitions returning in force, the second quarter notched one of the strongest periods for venture-backed exits in years.
GV's Dave Munichiello On Qualcomm's Modular Purchase, The Firm's 10x Return And The Shift In AI Software
The artificial intelligence space saw two major developments last week that highlight how technology companies are trying to manage the soaring costs and complexity of AI computing. In an interview with Crunchbase News, Dave Munichiello, a managing partner at GV, discusses the mechanics behind the Qualcomm-Modular deal, the practical realities of managing hardware scarcity, and what the current wave of consolidation means for the future of independent startups.
Crunchbase Data: Q2 Brought The Most Billion-Dollar Startup Exits Since 2021
Startup exits valued at $1 billion or more are now more numerous than at any point since the 2021 market peak, Crunchbase data shows. The trend we're seeing for the second quarter of 2026 includes both the largest venture-backed exit of all time and a bevy of other comparatively tinier but still sizable startup exits through acquisition or IPO.
The Ultimate Summer Sale Pairing: Steam Sale Meets GeForce NOW Discounts
Summer savings are heating up. From the Steam Summer Sale to GeForce NOW membership discounts, this week's GFN Thursday delivers double the deals and more ways to get the most value from cloud gaming. Plus, Dark Scrolls joins the growing Devolver lineup, alongside Square Enix's The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales. They lead the [...]
Memory maker SK hynix files for $29B US IPO amid AI demand
SK hynix Inc., the world's largest supplier of HBM memory, today filed to list its shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The South Korean company hopes to sell up to 17.79 million shares for $29.4 billion. The public offering is expected to be the second-largest on record after the recent listing of SpaceX Corp., which [...] The post Memory maker SK hynix files for $29B US IPO amid AI demand appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Qualcomm shares jump 14% on Modular acquisition, guidance upgrade
Qualcomm Inc.'s stock jumped 14% in after-hours trading today after it shared a series of updates about its artificial intelligence roadmap. The company announced plans to acquire an inference software startup called Modular Inc. and previewed two upcoming AI chips. Additionally, Qualcomm significantly raised its fiscal 2029 guidance. The chipmaker now expects its non-handset revenue [...] The post Qualcomm shares jump 14% on Modular acquisition, guidance upgrade appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Grammarly parent Superhuman buys AI detector GPTZero
Superhuman Inc., the company formerly known as Grammarly, said today it has agreed to acquire GPTZero Inc., the startup whose detection tools tell teachers, editors and hiring managers when a piece of writing came from a machine. The acquisition price was not disclosed. The acquisition is arguably ironic. Grammarly spent years building tools that help [...] The post Grammarly parent Superhuman buys AI detector GPTZero appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Elastic reportedly acquires site reliability engineering startup Deductive AI
Elastic NV has reportedly acquired Deductive AI Inc., a startup with a platform that helps enterprises fix errors in their technology infrastructure. TechCrunch on Thursday cited a source as saying that the deal is worth up to $85 million. That's reportedly more than double the valuation Deductive received after its seed round last year. The [...] The post Elastic reportedly acquires site reliability engineering startup Deductive AI appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
SpaceX to acquire vibe coding startup Cursor for $60B
Newly public SpaceX Corp. today announced plans to acquire Cursor, the developer of a popular vibe coding platform, for $60 billion in stock. The companies expect to close the transaction by the end of the quarter. The move is not unexpected. In April, SpaceX partnered with Cursor to develop artificial intelligence models optimized for coding [...] The post SpaceX to acquire vibe coding startup Cursor for $60B appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
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.
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.
The Blueprint: How Movix fills a gap in dental skills with specialized agentic AI
Movix is building one of the first agentic AI solutions for dental appliance manufacturers and dental labs, aimed at the shortage of skilled dental technicians. The company started in 2025 and uses Google Cloud infrastructure to detect defects in intraoral scans and automate quality control. Its goal is to help labs scale clinical workflows and reduce costly errors, such as remaking an aligner. The article is part of Google Cloud's Blueprint feature on customers using its AI and cloud technology.
Celonis buys decision-intelligence startup Ikigai Labs to provide operational context for enterprise AI
Process mining company Celonis acquired MIT-linked decision intelligence startup Ikigai Labs to power a new Context Model, described as a real-time digital twin of a customer's business operations. Celonis argues enterprises cannot trust AI agents to make reliable decisions without a deterministic foundation of operational reality. The deal adds Ikigai's large graphical model technology to Celonis's process intelligence platform.
Nebius snaps up Clarifai's compute orchestration tech and talent to enhance AI inference
Nebius Group, a Dutch AI infrastructure company, is recruiting the core engineering team from AI orchestration firm Clarifai to strengthen its managed inference services. As part of the deal, Nebius is acquiring Clarifai's patent portfolio and licensing its inference and compute orchestration technology. Clarifai founder and CEO Matthew Zeiler will join Nebius as senior vice president of research. The technology will enhance Nebius's Token Factory inference service.
I Sold My Startup A Year After Founding It. Here's Why That Was The Fastest Way To Build Real-World Healthcare AI
Louis Blankemeier, co-founder and CEO of healthcare AI startup Cognita, explains why he sold his company less than a year after founding it. Cognita built AI models that interpret medical images such as X-rays and CT scans across tens of thousands of potential diagnoses and generate full radiology reports. Faced with a choice between raising venture capital to stay independent or accepting an acquisition by Radiology Partners, the world's largest radiology practice, he argues that joining a large, established company was the fastest path to deploying reliable clinical AI at scale.