AI & Machine Learning Acquisitions in United States

Infleqtion completed its previously announced business combination with special purpose acquisition company Churchill Capital Corp X, becoming a publicly listed company. Following the closing, Churchill Capital Corp X delisted from Nasdaq and the combined company’s shares and warrants are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the tickers “INFQ” and “INFQ WS” starting February 17, 2026. The transaction delivered more than $550 million of gross proceeds to Infleqtion, including trust cash and a PIPE financing.

Trax Ltd. has divested its Image Recognition (IR) business to an affiliate of Gemspring Capital. The acquired IR unit will be merged with FORM to create a combined company focused on retail execution and shelf intelligence, while Trax retains and focuses on its remaining businesses (Shopkick, Survey, and LenzTech).

Thomson Reuters has acquired Noetica, a New York-based AI-native startup that converts corporate transaction deal data into structured market intelligence for deal professionals. Thomson Reuters plans to integrate Noetica’s analytics into its CoCounsel AI technology to improve benchmarking of deal terms, legal drafting support, and transaction workflow insights.

ActiveCampaign acquired Feedback Intelligence, an AI evaluation and analytics platform that converts AI agent and user conversations into structured performance insights. The acquisition is intended to strengthen ActiveCampaign’s “Active Intelligence” AI engine for autonomous marketing workflows by adding deeper conversation-level measurement and recommendation capabilities, with integration already underway. As part of the deal, Feedback Intelligence founder and CEO Chinar Movsisyan will join ActiveCampaign’s Technology and Product organization to help lead ongoing Active Intelligence development.

Sauvegarder Investment Management, Inc. (SIM IP) and Garden Intel closed a merger combining SIM IP’s intellectual property licensing and monetization capabilities with Garden Intel’s AI-driven patent intelligence platform. The transaction values Garden Intel at $150 million, and the combined company will operate under the SIM IP brand with Garden Intel serving as its technology engine as it prepares for public markets.

Marvell Technology, Inc. has completed its previously announced acquisition of Celestial AI, a developer of optical interconnect technology for large-scale AI deployments. Celestial AI and its Photonic Fabric optical interconnect platform will become part of Marvell’s Data Center Group, expanding Marvell’s optical connectivity capabilities for next-generation AI and cloud data center architectures.

DC Capital Partners announced it has made a majority investment in Knexus, an applied artificial intelligence provider supporting complex, mission-critical U.S. government programs. Knexus, founded in 2006 and headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, designs, builds, and operates enterprise-grade AI systems and will use the partnership to accelerate growth through investments in business development, technology, and operations.

SpaceX has acquired xAI in a transaction reportedly valuing the combined company at about $1.25 trillion, according to Reuters. The deal is positioned as combining SpaceX’s launch and satellite infrastructure with xAI’s AI model development efforts, including ambitions for space-based computing and “orbital data centers.” Detailed transaction terms (consideration, governance, minority investor treatment, and regulatory review) were not publicly disclosed in the reporting referenced.

Launchpoint acquired Kashie.AI, an AI-driven music content platform, in a transaction valued at $300,000. Following the deal, Kashie co-founders Richard Ahn and Albert Zhang will join Launchpoint as Chief Marketing Officer and a founding engineer, respectively, to support Launchpoint’s expansion in AI-driven music content and creator/brand collaborations.

Handshake acquired Cleanlab to strengthen AI research, data quality, and evaluation capabilities for training frontier AI models. Cleanlab’s team will lead Handshake’s AI research efforts, bringing its technologies in confident learning, data-centric AI, and LLM evaluation to serve frontier AI labs and enterprise customers. Cleanlab’s open-source package will remain available and transition to a more permissive Apache-2.0 license.

Southfield Capital, a lower middle market private equity firm, has acquired Contextual.io, an AI orchestration platform and solutions provider. Contextual will be fully integrated into Southfield’s partnership/value-creation model to deploy enterprise-grade, purpose-built AI solutions across Southfield’s portfolio and support diligence, reporting, and operational execution. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Harvey, a legal AI startup, acquired Hexus, a startup that builds AI tools for creating product demos, videos, and guides, to accelerate product development for in-house/corporate legal departments. Hexus’s founder/CEO Sakshi Pratap and the San Francisco-based team have joined Harvey, with India-based engineers expected to join after Harvey establishes a Bengaluru (Bangalore) office; deal terms were not disclosed.

D-Wave Quantum Inc. has completed its acquisition/merger with Quantum Circuits Inc. in a deal valued at about $550 million, combining D-Wave’s commercial annealing quantum systems with Quantum Circuits’ error-corrected superconducting gate-model technology. The transaction is intended to accelerate D-Wave’s dual-platform roadmap, with plans to make an initial gate-model system generally available in 2026. The consideration was reported as approximately $300 million in common stock and $250 million in cash, and D-Wave plans to establish a gate-model R&D center in New Haven, Connecticut.

Splice, a global music creation platform, acquired Kits AI, an AI-powered voice production platform that enables creators to generate, transform, and refine vocals. The deal supports Splice’s strategy to build responsible, creator-first generative AI tools, and Kits AI’s co-founders Evan Dhillon and Kyle Dhillon and the broader team are joining Splice.

Hippocratic AI acquired Grove AI to expand its life sciences business and establish a dedicated Life Sciences Division. The deal brings Grove AI’s agentic AI capabilities for pharma R&D, clinical trial operations, and patient engagement (including its “Grace” AI agent and PRM platform) into Hippocratic AI’s platform to accelerate generative AI adoption across the biopharma and medtech value chain.

Standard AI announced it has acquired Pathr.ai, a spatial intelligence company focused on analyzing shopper movement and behavior in retail stores. As part of the deal, Pathr.ai founder and CEO George Shaw and several team members will join Standard AI to accelerate deployment of computer-vision-driven spatial intelligence for retailers.

CapStone Holdings has acquired Structurely, an AI-powered sales engagement company that automates early-stage revenue conversations for real estate and mortgage organizations. The acquisition is intended to support increased investment, accelerate product development, deepen partnerships, and scale Structurely’s AI-driven sales automation platform.

BigBear.ai completed its acquisition of Ask Sage, a secure generative AI platform built for deployment, orchestration, and agentic capabilities in defense, intelligence, and other regulated environments. The deal was valued at $250 million in cash and is intended to expand BigBear.ai’s mission-ready, production-grade AI offering for national security and regulated commercial customers.

ClickUp announced it has acquired Codegen, an AI-powered code generation and agentic AI platform, to accelerate development of ClickUp’s “Super Agents” that operate as collaborative AI teammates within ClickUp’s unified workspace. As part of the deal, Codegen’s technology and team will be integrated into ClickUp, and Codegen founder/CEO Jay Hack will join ClickUp as Head of AI.

Zendesk acquired Unleash, an AI-powered enterprise search platform that connects and retrieves knowledge across company systems. The deal is intended to strengthen Zendesk’s AI-first employee service offering with permission-based retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), enterprise search across numerous content sources, and deep integrations with collaboration tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams.

Baseten, an AI inference platform company, has acquired Parsed, a reinforcement learning startup focused on post-training and continual learning for large models. The deal brings Parsed’s team and technology in-house to unify inference, data, evaluation, and post-training within Baseten’s platform for specialized, high-performance AI models.

MANTECH announced the acquisition of Elder Research, a provider of AI and data science solutions, applications, and training serving Fortune 500 and U.S. government clients. Elder Research will join MANTECH’s Data and AI Practice, expanding MANTECH’s AI, automation, and analytics capabilities for federal and commercial missions.

Gloo (Nasdaq: GLOO) acquired XRI Global, an AI company specializing in multilingual and voice AI technologies for low-resource languages. The deal is intended to deepen Gloo’s AI capabilities across products including Gloo AI and Gloo360 and to support international expansion across the faith and flourishing ecosystem.

Mosaic Clinical Technologies, the technology and AI services division of Radiology Partners, acquired Cognita Imaging Inc., a radiology-focused AI company emerging from stealth. The acquisition combines Mosaic’s enterprise imaging platform (MosaicOS) with Cognita’s vision-language foundation models to accelerate development and deployment of AI tools intended to improve diagnostic accuracy, workflow efficiency, and clinical capacity at scale.

Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) participated as a new investor in d-Matrix’s oversubscribed Series C financing round totaling USD 275 million, valuing d-Matrix at about USD 2 billion. The round was co-led by BullhoundCapital, Triatomic Capital, and Temasek, and also included new investor EDBI and follow-on participation from M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), Mirae Asset, Industry Ventures, and Nautilus Venture Partners. d-Matrix plans to use the proceeds to advance its generative AI inference roadmap, accelerate global expansion, and support large-scale data center deployments.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) completed its acquisition of MK1, a Mountain View, California-based company specializing in high-speed AI inference and reasoning technologies for large-scale deployments. MK1’s team and its Flywheel and comprehension engine technologies will integrate into the AMD Artificial Intelligence Group to strengthen AMD’s enterprise AI software stack and inference performance optimized for AMD Instinct GPUs.

Workday, Inc. completed its acquisition of Sana, an AI company focused on enterprise knowledge, search, agents, and learning tools. Workday plans to integrate Sana’s AI-powered capabilities with Workday’s people-and-money context to create a unified, AI-native employee experience—positioned as a “new front door for work”—with new functionality expected to launch next year.

fal, a generative media platform for developers, announced it has acquired Y Combinator–backed AI startup Remade. Remade built an AI-native workspace for creative, design, and marketing teams to use image and video generation models in a unified interface, and the team is expected to join fal as part of the combination. The deal is fal’s first acquisition since its 2021 launch.

Automation Anywhere acquired Aisera to combine its Agentic Process Automation platform with Aisera’s conversational AI and self-service agents for IT Service Management, HR, and customer service. The deal is intended to accelerate delivery of an “Autonomous Enterprise” vision by enabling more end-to-end, agentic automation across enterprise functions and reducing reliance on traditional seat-based ITSM tools.

Nexa Equity made a strategic growth investment in Cedar AI, an AI-powered transportation management system (TMS) serving railroad operators, rail shippers, and other participants in the rail supply chain. Cedar AI is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and its platform helps customers manage freight operations with real-time accuracy, transparency, and auditability.

Exos announced it has acquired sports technology company Infinite Athlete and its subsidiary Biocore to expand its technology, data science, and biomechanics capabilities in human performance. The acquisition is backed by private equity firms BDT & MSD Partners and Madrone Capital Partners, and Infinite Athlete and Biocore will operate under the Exos brand.

Mews, a global hospitality operating system provider, announced it has acquired DataChat, a U.S.-based AI analytics company focused on natural-language data interaction and automation. Mews plans to integrate DataChat’s conversational analytics technology to accelerate agentic AI capabilities across hospitality operations, including reservations, revenue optimization, and guest engagement.

Skan AI announced the acquisition of Metaculars to expand its enterprise agentic AI capabilities and strengthen its “Observation to Agent” platform vision. Metaculars’ AI agent development expertise will be integrated into Skan AI’s process intelligence platform, with Metaculars’ leadership and engineering team joining Skan AI to accelerate autonomous enterprise workflow execution.

Fullcast, an AI-native revenue operations (RevOps) and go-to-market automation company, announced the acquisition of Copy.ai, a generative AI platform for sales and marketing workflows. The deal expands Fullcast’s capabilities to deliver an end-to-end “Plan-to-Pay” RevOps platform by embedding Copy.ai’s AI-driven execution and content generation into Fullcast’s planning, forecasting, and performance tools.

Prezent AI acquired Prezentium in a cash-plus-equity deal alongside announcing an additional $30 million funding round. The combination adds Prezentium’s life-sciences-focused presentation services to Prezent AI’s enterprise AI presentation platform as part of an AI-enabled roll-up strategy to challenge traditional agencies and consultancies.

Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) has completed the acquisition of Jina AI, an open-source pioneer in multimodal and multilingual embeddings, rerankers, and small language models. The deal strengthens Elastic’s vector search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and context engineering capabilities, with Jina AI’s team and models to be integrated into Elastic’s Search AI Platform and made available via Elastic Cloud’s Elastic Inference Service.

DigitalNet.ai launched as a newly formed enterprise AI solutions provider following its acquisitions of Harmonic AI, Zillion Technologies and Axis Group. The company was formed through a partnership between founder Dr. Ken Bajaj and Ulysses Management, with the founders of the acquired businesses retaining meaningful equity stakes in DigitalNet.ai.

Rapport, a division of Speech Graphics, acquired Aquifer Motion, an AI-powered animation platform, to expand its real-time AI avatar capabilities from primarily facial animation to full-body movement plus cinematic-quality camera and scene direction in real time. As part of the deal, Aquifer Motion CEO and co-founder Chen Zhang will join Rapport as Chief Growth Officer, and Aquifer Motion’s team will remain based in Austin, Texas.

Harvey, a domain-specific AI company serving legal and professional services, announced a €50 million strategic investment from EQT Growth to support rapid international expansion. The investment extends Harvey’s previously announced Series E financing and adds EQT to an existing investor syndicate that includes Kleiner Perkins, Coatue, Sequoia, and others.

Smarter Technologies announced the acquisition of Pieces Technologies, a physician-led clinical AI and note automation company. The combination of SmarterDx’s clinical AI with Pieces’ documentation workflows will support the launch of SmarterNotes, integrating inpatient documentation with revenue cycle intelligence to improve compliance, reduce denials, and optimize reimbursement for health systems.

XGEN AI acquired R2Decide to enhance XGEN’s ecommerce search and product discovery platform with R2Decide’s agentic commerce AI, multimodal search, and generative engine optimization (GEO) capabilities. The deal adds R2Decide’s retail client portfolio and will integrate its technology into XGEN’s workflow tools to improve conversion, revenue per visit, and customer experience. R2Decide cofounder Lutz Finger will join XGEN AI as Head of AI.

Capacity, an AI-powered support automation platform for contact centers, acquired KLaunch, a conversational AI company. The deal strengthens Capacity’s conversational AI capabilities and expands its reach in government, healthcare, nonprofit, and sports and entertainment sectors; financial terms were not disclosed.

Resolve announced it has acquired Espressive, a provider of enterprise conversational AI and LLM technologies. The deal is intended to strengthen Resolve’s agentic automation and orchestration platform and accelerate its “Zero Ticket IT” strategy by improving autonomous ticket deflection and incident resolution capabilities.

SoundHound AI, Inc. acquired Interactions, a pioneer in AI for customer service and workflow orchestration, to strengthen SoundHound’s position in agentic AI and expand its enterprise customer service footprint. The consideration includes approximately $60 million in cash payable at close, plus potential additional contingent payments tied to revenue milestones; the deal is expected to be immediately accretive to operating profitability.

Expedition Technology announced a strategic investment from Razor's Edge and Enlightenment Capital to accelerate the company’s growth across the signals and geospatial intelligence domains. Expedition develops AI/ML-powered C5ISR solutions for U.S. national security customers including the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense.

Rogo Technologies, an AI platform for investment banks, acquired Subset, an AI spreadsheet company backed by Index Ventures. The deal is intended to accelerate Rogo’s effort to deliver an AI-native spreadsheet experience for investment bankers and investors, integrating Subset’s spreadsheet engine into Rogo’s broader workflow suite for modeling, auditing, and producing downstream deliverables.

Uniphore announced that it has acquired Orby AI, Inc. and that it intends to acquire Autonom8, Inc. The acquisitions are aimed at enhancing Uniphore’s Business AI Cloud with Large Action Models, neuro-symbolic agents, and enterprise-grade agent orchestration capabilities; financial terms were not disclosed.

SePRO Corporation acquired Arietta.ai, a San Ramon, California-based artificial intelligence company, to accelerate SePRO’s digital strategy in water health management. Arietta.ai’s team will join SePRO to form the foundation of SePRO Digital, a new division focused on digital water management, product innovation, and customer solutions.

Tempus AI, Inc. (NASDAQ: TEM) announced it has acquired Paige, an artificial intelligence-driven digital pathology company, in a transaction valued at $81.25 million. The consideration is paid predominantly in Tempus common stock, and Tempus will also assume Paige’s remaining commitment under its existing Microsoft Azure cloud services agreement. The deal expands Tempus’ presence in digital pathology and adds Paige’s large de-identified pathology dataset and AI applications to support oncology-focused model development.

Serve Robotics, an autonomous sidewalk delivery company, acquired Vayu Robotics, which develops urban robot navigation technology using large-scale AI models. Serve plans to combine its real-world sidewalk delivery data and autonomy stack with Vayu’s AI foundation-model expertise and simulation capabilities to accelerate development of its next-generation robots and expand into new delivery environments.

Landbase, an agentic AI go-to-market (GTM) platform company, announced it has acquired Adauris, a startup focused on creating custom intent signals through content generation for B2B lead identification and conversion. The deal accelerates Landbase’s AI-native inbound marketing roadmap by integrating Adauris’ signal-driven publishing and inbound infrastructure into Landbase’s unified outbound-and-inbound GTM platform.

Workday, Inc. acquired Flowise, a low-code platform for building and managing AI agents ranging from simple chatbots to complex automated workflows. The deal adds an AI agent builder to the Workday platform, aiming to accelerate innovation and enable customers and partners to design, launch, and govern AI agents for HR and finance with greater speed, flexibility, and responsible AI controls.

Meta has acquired AI voice startup WaveForms for an undisclosed amount, according to The Information. The deal is intended to bolster Meta’s new AI unit, Superintelligence Labs, and follows Meta’s recent acquisition of AI audio company PlayAI.

Healthcare-focused private equity firm ARCHIMED acquired a majority stake in Arkstone Medical Solutions (Arkstone), an AI/ML and generative AI-driven clinical decision support provider for infectious disease guidance and antimicrobial stewardship. The investment will support Arkstone’s product development and global expansion of its OneChoice Report, which delivers personalized infectious disease treatment recommendations by analyzing lab results alongside patient data.

AI coding startup Cognition acquired rival AI coding company Windsurf. Following the acquisition, Cognition reportedly laid off some Windsurf employees and offered buyouts to remaining staff, indicating the deal may have been primarily focused on Windsurf’s intellectual property rather than retaining its team.

Lyric raised $43.5 million in Series B funding to accelerate development of its AI-powered supply chain decision-making platform, Lyric Studio. The round was led by Insight Partners with participation from Primary Venture Partners, Permanent Capital Ventures, VMG Partners, PSP Growth, and NewBuild Venture Capital.

R/GA, a global creative innovation company, announced it has acquired Addition, an AI system design and development studio founded in 2021. The deal is R/GA’s first acquisition since becoming an independent, privately held company in partnership with private equity firm Truelink Capital, and is intended to expand R/GA’s AI-enabled services and capabilities for clients.

Pronto.ai, Inc., a San Francisco-based developer of autonomous haulage systems for off-road vehicles, has completed the acquisition of SafeAI Inc., a competitor specializing in safety-focused, multi-sensor autonomy for heavy industry. The deal combines Pronto’s camera-only autonomous haulage offering with SafeAI’s multi-sensor technology and ASIL D-certified safety framework to deliver a tiered autonomy portfolio for mining, quarrying, and construction customers. Deal terms were not disclosed, though reporting indicates the purchase price was in the millions and includes SafeAI’s IP and much of its engineering team.

Heron raised $16 million in Series A funding led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors Y-Combinator, BoxGroup, and Flex Capital. The financing will support Heron’s expansion of its AI-driven document workflow automation solutions across insurance, equipment finance, and SMB lending, including scaling teams in New York and London.

IFS, a provider of enterprise cloud and Industrial AI software, announced the acquisition of TheLoops, an innovator in autonomous AI agent technology. IFS plans to integrate TheLoops’ agentic capabilities into its industrial software suite to deliver an enterprise-grade AI agent platform for mission-critical, regulated, asset-intensive operations with built-in security, governance, and compliance.

IFS, a provider of enterprise cloud and Industrial AI software, acquired TheLoops, an innovator in autonomous AI agent technology. The acquisition is intended to embed TheLoops’ agentic AI capabilities into IFS’s industrial software suite to create an enterprise-grade AI agent platform for mission-critical, regulated, asset-intensive operations with built-in security and governance.

eMerge Americas acquired Miami AI Hub, a South Florida-based community initiative focused on advancing artificial intelligence. As part of the transaction, Miami AI Hub founder Burhan Sebin was appointed eMerge Americas’ first Chief AI Officer, and eMerge announced expanded AI programming and the launch of the Miami AI School.

Hebbia, an AI platform for finance and professional services, announced it has acquired FlashDocs, a generative AI presentation/slide deck creation company. The deal expands Hebbia’s capabilities from information retrieval and agentic workflows into content and artifact generation, including memos, reports, and slide decks for financial workflows.

Casa del Fuego Family Office and Trust acquired Digital Global Systems Inc. (DGS) in a $5 billion transaction structured as a 100% stock purchase, making DGS a wholly owned subsidiary. DGS will continue to operate independently under its existing leadership team, with the deal intended to accelerate monetization and deployment of DGS’s AI-driven spectrum optimization and RF awareness technologies across defense, commercial, and smart infrastructure markets.

TDK Corporation (TSE: 6762) has acquired SoftEye, Inc., a U.S.-based systems solutions company developing custom chips, cameras, software, and algorithms for AI-enabled smart glasses. Following the transaction, SoftEye became an indirectly wholly owned subsidiary of TDK, supporting TDK’s efforts to expand its AI ecosystem business and accelerate development of smart-glasses systems and eye-movement-based human-machine interfaces.

IonQ announced it has successfully completed the acquisition of Lightsynq Technologies, a Boston-based startup focused on photonic interconnects and quantum memory. The deal is intended to accelerate IonQ’s fault-tolerant quantum computing roadmap and advance its quantum networking efforts toward building a quantum internet.

CallMiner announced that it has acquired VOCALLS, a voice-first conversational AI and automation platform. The deal expands CallMiner’s conversation intelligence offering with native AI virtual agents across voice and digital channels, plus task automation/RPA capabilities, to drive contact center and customer experience (CX) automation.

IBM has acquired Seek AI, a New York City-based startup offering an AI platform that lets users query and analyze enterprise data using natural language, for an undisclosed amount. Seek AI’s technology will become a key component of IBM’s newly announced Watsonx AI Labs accelerator in New York City, and the company plans to relocate its headquarters to One Madison following closing.

OpenTeams acquired Quansight's existing Consulting Division, including its core engineering team, to strengthen its ability to deliver customizable open source-based AI systems for enterprise and government customers. As part of the transition, Quansight will operate under a new structure as a Public Benefit Corporation, and former Quansight CTO Dharhas Pothina will join OpenTeams as CTO.

Together AI announced it has acquired Refuel.ai, a company focused on transforming unstructured data into structured, high-quality datasets for AI applications. The deal is intended to strengthen Together AI’s AI Acceleration Cloud by integrating Refuel’s purpose-built models and orchestration capabilities to help enterprises and developers build, deploy, and optimize production-grade generative AI applications more quickly and accurately.

GenAI.Works announced the acquisition of Hackmakers as it expands its AI community and education ecosystem. Hackmakers, a global hackathon network focused on AI experimentation, will add community-led innovation opportunities within the GenAI.Works platform alongside the launch of the GenAI.Works Academy education program.

Quansight announced the acquisition of Cobalt Speech and Language, a provider of custom speech and language technology specializing in automatic speech recognition and natural language understanding. The deal expands Quansight’s AI/ML capabilities in voice and language technologies for enterprise and embedded systems, with Cobalt continuing as a distinct team within Quansight and founder Jeff Adams remaining involved as a strategic advisor.

Zencoder announced the acquisition of Machinet, a developer of context-aware AI coding assistants for JetBrains IDEs. The deal strengthens Zencoder’s AI coding ecosystem by deepening JetBrains integration and enhancing unit testing and customization capabilities, with Machinet’s domain and marketplace presence transitioning to Zencoder.

PLAUD Inc., the brand owner of PLAUD.AI, announced it has acquired StarJar, a Y Combinator-backed medical AI provider. The deal is intended to accelerate the launch of “PLAUD for Business,” an enterprise platform for AI-driven note-taking, collaboration, and intelligence extraction. Following the acquisition, StarJar co-founders Ruming Zhen and Qi Zhang will join PLAUD.AI to lead development of the new enterprise solution.

Humach (Humans + Machines), an AI customer experience company, acquired Albany, New York-based Markets EQ, an AI-powered voice analytics platform focused on extracting emotional and competitive intelligence from financial communications such as earnings calls. Markets EQ will operate as an independent, wholly owned subsidiary while Humach integrates Markets EQ’s voice EQ and analytics into its mAI Pilot customer experience platform, with Markets EQ’s leadership joining Humach in senior roles.

Landbase, an agentic AI go-to-market (GTM) automation company, announced it has acquired Delegate, which specializes in predictive and automated customer success. The acquisition is intended to accelerate delivery of Landbase product enhancements, including the newly launched Campaign Feed capability within the Landbase platform.

Urbint acquired StormImpact, an AI company that predicts storm, wildfire, and flood risk to utility infrastructure. The deal combines Urbint’s Storm Response platform with StormImpact’s machine-learning capabilities to help electric utilities improve resiliency, resource planning, and outage prevention ahead of extreme weather events.

FTV Capital completed the take-private acquisition of Windward, a maritime AI and predictive intelligence platform provider. Following the transaction, Windward became a privately held U.S. company and its shares ceased trading on the London Stock Exchange. FTV Capital representatives Brad Bernstein, Jerome Hershey and Giovanni Bacarella joined Windward’s board of directors as the firm partners with management to accelerate product development and global expansion, particularly in the U.S. market.

Tray.ai announced the acquisition of Vanti, a company specializing in knowledge modeling technology. The deal is intended to enhance Tray.ai’s Merlin Agent Builder by improving how AI agents ingest, structure, and apply domain knowledge to reason and act with greater adaptability and guardrails in enterprise environments.

DataRobot announced it has acquired Agnostiq, the developer of the open-source distributed computing and compute orchestration platform Covalent. The acquisition is intended to accelerate development and management of agentic AI applications by improving heterogeneous compute orchestration across multi-cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments while reducing AI infrastructure complexity and cost.

Applied Intuition, Inc. acquired EpiSys Science, Inc. (EpiSci), an AI and trusted autonomy software provider focused on national security applications. EpiSci will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary, and its team (including CEO/co-founder Bo Ryu and co-founder Tamal Bose) joined Applied Intuition to integrate EpiSci’s tactical AI autonomy capabilities into Applied Intuition Defense’s simulation, validation, data management, and autonomy software suite.

LG Electronics exercised a call option to acquire an additional 30% stake in Bear Robotics, bringing its ownership to a controlling 51% and making the Silicon Valley service-robot startup a subsidiary. LG previously invested $60 million in March 2024 for a 21% stake and is integrating its commercial robot business (LG CLOi) with Bear Robotics to strengthen robotics capabilities across commercial, home, and industrial applications.

NewTide Development, Inc. acquired Talentr Solutions, an AI innovation lab, as it transitions from incubation to officially launch an AI software innovation company focused on the fuels and convenience retail segments of the energy industry. Following the acquisition, Talentr founder and CEO Vladimir (Vlad) Collak will assume the CEO role at NewTide.

Red Hat has completed its acquisition of Neural Magic, a company known for software and algorithms that accelerate generative AI inference workloads. Neural Magic’s inference performance engineering and model-optimization capabilities will be integrated into Red Hat AI (including elements such as vLLM, LLM Compressor and pre-optimized models) to help customers run efficient AI workloads across hybrid cloud environments.

SuperDial, a voice AI company focused on automating phone calls for healthcare organizations, has acquired MajorBoost. MajorBoost’s AI technology for waiting on hold and navigating health insurers’ IVR phone trees will expand SuperDial’s capabilities across automated dialing, IVR/hold navigation, and information collection from live representatives, strengthening revenue cycle management automation use cases such as benefits verification and prior authorization.

DDN, an AI and data intelligence solutions company, received a $300 million investment from funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities at a $5 billion valuation. The capital will support DDN’s continued growth serving enterprise AI and high-performance computing (HPC) software and infrastructure needs.

SIPS Healthcare Solutions acquired Sterile Matrix AI, an artificial intelligence platform developed by SterileInstrument.com, in a multi-million-dollar transaction. The deal is intended to expand access to affordable AI-driven technology that improves sterile processing and perioperative workflows for safety net and community hospitals nationwide.

S&P Global acquired ProntoNLP, a provider of generative AI tooling that applies NLP and large language models to analyze unstructured financial data. ProntoNLP will be integrated into S&P Global Market Intelligence to enhance S&P Global’s textual data analytics, including capabilities such as event detection and sentiment scoring. The transaction closed on December 31, 2024, and financial terms were not disclosed.

Calabrio announced it has acquired Echo AI, a generative-AI-native conversation intelligence platform for contact centers. The deal is intended to accelerate Calabrio’s AI innovation by adding near-time conversation insights, automated quality management, and enhanced CX intelligence and agent performance coaching capabilities.

Hexion Inc. acquired Smartech, a technology company focused on AI-driven autonomous manufacturing solutions, in a deal with undisclosed financial terms. Smartech will continue operating as an independent business entity while its AI-enabled systems (e.g., SmartWAX, SmartPF, SmartMDI) are expected to complement Hexion’s resins and wood-processing expertise, particularly in wood processing and broader manufacturing applications. The acquisition aligns with Hexion’s transformation under American Securities, which has owned Hexion since 2022.

Uniphore announced that it is acquiring ActionIQ and Infoworks to expand its end-to-end Enterprise AI platform and launch what it calls the industry’s first “Zero Data AI Cloud.” The acquisitions add ActionIQ’s composable zero-copy customer data platform capabilities and Infoworks’ enterprise data platform and AI data agents to help enterprises make data AI-ready without complex migrations, copying, or ETL integration work.

Summa Defence Ltd agreed to acquire all shares of Lightspace Group, Inc, an American deep-technology company focused on XR (AR/VR) solutions for defense and healthcare. The transaction will be completed via a share exchange, with all current Lightspace shareholders selling their stakes. The purchase price was not disclosed.

Subsplash, a church engagement technology and fintech/mobile SaaS platform, has acquired Pulpit AI, an AI-powered content creation platform for pastors and churches. Pulpit AI will join the Subsplash Platform, enhancing Subsplash’s ability to transform sermons into repurposed, discoverable content such as clips, study guides, recaps, and newsletters.

Inflection AI acquired BoostKPI and Jelled.ai, two AI automation startups focused on enterprise data analytics and workplace communications, respectively; financial terms were not disclosed. BoostKPI’s AI data analyst and Jelled.ai’s inbox/communications “digital twin” capabilities will be integrated into Inflection for Enterprise to expand natural-language data analysis and trusted agentic workflows for enterprise users.

Traccom Inc. (TRCC) acquired 100% of the capital stock of Vulcain, Inc. on November 13, 2024, making Vulcain a wholly owned operating subsidiary. Vulcain shareholders received 117,813,680 shares of Traccom common stock (representing 95% of Traccom’s fully diluted shares post-issuance), and Vulcain’s leadership assumed key management and board roles at Traccom. The combined company will focus on expanding Vulcain’s Causal AI and knowledge management platform and pursuing growth across multiple end markets.

Gideon Taylor Consulting, LLC acquired IntraSee, Inc., an enterprise UX and conversational AI company. The deal also includes Ida Artificial Intelligence, Inc. and its AI-driven enterprise digital assistant, Ida. Gideon Taylor plans to use IntraSee’s team and technology to improve usability and conversational access to enterprise application suites such as PeopleSoft and Oracle Fusion Cloud.

Panopto announced the acquisition of Elai, an AI text-to-video platform that generates engaging learning videos using tools such as guided scriptwriting, creator studio features, and avatar-based capabilities. The deal expands Panopto’s AI-powered video creation and management platform by adding generative AI text-to-video functionality to support the full video learning lifecycle.

Gloo announced the acquisition of withSoul, an AI company focused on AI-powered data ingestion, enrichment, and personalization for Christian publishers. The deal is intended to strengthen Gloo’s technology platform and expand trusted AI solutions for faith-based publishers, content creators, and ministries.

Nvidia has acquired OctoAI, a Seattle-based startup that provides software tools to build and run generative AI models more efficiently. The deal was structured as a traditional M&A transaction, and OctoAI will wind down the commercial availability of its services effective Oct. 31. Reported consideration was about $165 million before debt/expenses, with a source indicating total paid could exceed $250 million including retention incentives.

The Hackett Group, Inc. announced it has acquired LeewayHertz, a provider of advanced generative AI solutions and the developer of the ZBrain platform. As part of the transaction, The Hackett Group and LeewayHertz CEO Akash Takyar are creating a joint venture in which The Hackett Group will contribute its AI XPLR and the ZBrain platforms, with Takyar serving as CEO of the new ZBrain venture while also leading Hackett’s Gen AI Implementation group.