Recent AI & Machine Learning Acquisitions in Texas
Acquisition Volume in AI & Machine Learning in Texas by Year
Last 5 years
AI & machine learning acquisitions in Texas center on companies expanding applied capabilities—from multilingual and voice AI to real-time avatar animation, predictive analytics, and clinical imaging. Across 2025–2020, buyers often target technology platforms and engineering teams that can be integrated into enterprise or government-facing offerings.
Recent Texas deals illustrate a mix of product and capability add-ons (e.g., cloud image analysis, geospatial visualization, AI consulting engineering) and domain-focused deployments (e.g., ophthalmic clinical trial imaging, subsurface decision-making, and real-time geopolitical analysis). Buyers represented here include Gloo, n2 Group, Voiant, Tabhi Inc., Culmen International, and OpenTeams.
While deal details vary by transaction, a recurring theme is leveraging specialized AI/ML development to serve specific customer segments—such as healthcare and clinical research, defense and geospatial intelligence, enterprise/government workflows, and industrial or retail operations. Many deals also emphasize integration plans that keep key leadership and teams in Texas.
What Stands Out
- Capability expansion is a common deal rationale: adding multilingual/voice AI, low-resource language handling, real-time animation, or cloud-based image analysis.
- Domain depth matters in Texas: acquisitions span ophthalmic imaging, geospatial/defense data visualization, subsurface decision-making, and predictive geopolitical analytics.
- Engineering + platform takeovers appear across the list, including acquisitions of AI consulting divisions and software platforms used by enterprise or government teams.
- Texas headquarters and operations continuity are emphasized in multiple transactions (e.g., retaining Austin-based operations or keeping companies headquartered in Austin).
| Buyer (examples) | What they’re acquiring (examples) | Texas relevance |
|---|---|---|
| Gloo | Multilingual & voice AI capabilities via XRI Global | Deal completed with Texas location noted |
| n2 Group | Managed HPC/AI services provider X-ISS | Adds capabilities for scientific and enterprise AI |
| Voiant | AI-driven ophthalmic image analysis via Voxeleron | Integrates into clinical trial imaging platform |
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February 11, 2026
- Buyer
- B Capital, Google, Mercedes-Benz, PEAK6, AT&T Ventures, John Deere, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA)
- Target
- Apptronik
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Growth capital
Apptronik, a human-centered robotics company, closed a $520 million Series A-X extension round following an oversubscribed initial Series A raise in 2025, bringing its Series A total to more than $935 million. The new funding will ramp production of its Apollo humanoid robot and expand global commercial and pilot deployments across manufacturing and logistics (with future expansion planned for retail and healthcare).
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November 25, 2025
- Buyer
- Gloo
- Target
- XRI Global
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Gloo (Nasdaq: GLOO), a technology platform serving the faith and flourishing ecosystem, has acquired XRI Global, an AI company specializing in multilingual and voice AI solutions. The acquisition embeds XRI's multilingual and low-resource language capabilities into Gloo's AI offerings to expand capability and unlock new international markets.
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October 7, 2025
- Buyer
- Rapport, Speech Graphics
- Target
- Aquifer Motion
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Rapport, the AI-powered avatar division of Speech Graphics, has acquired Aquifer Motion, an AI animation platform used by major entertainment brands. Aquifer Motion's team will join Rapport (remaining based in Austin, Texas) and CEO Chen Zhang will become Rapport's Chief Growth Officer as the companies integrate full-body animation and cinematic scene direction into Rapport's real-time avatar platform.
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August 25, 2025
- Buyer
- Culmen International
- Target
- Madison Springfield, Inc.
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Culmen International has acquired Madison Springfield, Inc., an AI/ML‑enabled predictive analytics firm and developer of the MOSAICS platform. The acquisition expands Culmen’s real‑time geopolitical analysis and predictive capabilities to better support U.S. government and international partners.
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August 2, 2025
- Buyer
- Voiant
- Target
- Voxeleron
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Voiant has acquired Voxeleron, an AI-driven ophthalmic image analysis company, to integrate advanced AI/ML imaging capabilities into its clinical trial imaging platform. The deal combines Voiant’s clinical trial imaging expertise with Voxeleron’s cloud-based image analysis tools to accelerate biomarker development, improve data accuracy, and enhance ophthalmology-focused clinical research services.
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- Buyer
- OpenTeams
- Target
- Quansight Consulting Division
- Seller
- Quansight
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Divestiture
OpenTeams has acquired Quansight's Consulting Division, including its core engineering team, to accelerate development and delivery of open source AI systems for enterprises and government agencies. Quansight will transition to a Public Benefit Corporation (Quansight PBC) to focus on sustaining open source communities, while key Quansight leaders (including former CTO Dharhas Pothina) move to OpenTeams to support product and technical growth.
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- Buyer
- Tabhi Inc., TCW Asset Management Company LLC, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Wingspire Capital LLC, Prasad Gundumogula
- Target
- Mondee Holdings, Inc.
- Seller
- Mondee Holdings, Inc.
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Tabhi Inc. acquired substantially all assets of Mondee Holdings, Inc. as part of Mondee's Chapter 11 restructuring, with new equity and credit support from affiliates of TCW Asset Management, Morgan Stanley Investment Management and Wingspire Capital. The transaction reduced Mondee's debt, strengthened liquidity, and resulted in Prasad Gundumogula taking a majority equity stake while Tabhi named Kumar R. Parakala CEO of North America to accelerate AI-powered travel offerings.
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January 16, 2025
- Buyer
- NewTide Development, Inc.
- Target
- Talentr Solutions
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Buyout
NewTide Development, Inc. has acquired innovation lab Talentr Solutions and is launching NewTide as an enterprise agentic AI company focused on the fuels and convenience retail industry. Vlad Collak (former Talentr founder/CEO) will assume the CEO role at NewTide as the company commercializes AI agents and related services for supply, trading, logistics, procurement, accounting, merchandising and retail operations.
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December 16, 2024
- Buyer
- Upbound Group, Inc.
- Target
- Brigit
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Upbound Group, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Brigit, a financial health technology company, for total consideration of up to $460 million. The deal is expected to close in Q1 2025, subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions, and will combine Brigit’s subscription cash-flow and credit-building platform with Upbound’s existing accessible financial solutions.
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October 18, 2024
- Buyer
- n2 Group
- Target
- X-ISS
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Buyout
n2 Group has acquired X-ISS, a specialist provider of managed High-Performance Computing (HPC) and AI services, adding the company to its portfolio of technical-computing businesses. X-ISS will operate as a standalone business within the n2 Group, retaining its brand while leveraging group synergies to expand its ManagedHPC offering and capabilities for customers in scientific and enterprise AI environments.
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August 7, 2024
- Buyer
- East11 Ventures
- Target
- Kronologic
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Buyout
East11 Ventures, the private equity arm of Austin-based East11 Ventures, has acquired Kronologic, an Austin-headquartered provider of AI-driven schedule orchestration for B2B sales teams. The acquisition will keep Kronologic headquartered in Austin and aims to accelerate product development and company growth through East11’s capital and operational support.
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September 25, 2023
- Buyer
- Computer Modelling Group Ltd. (CMG)
- Target
- Bluware-Headwave Ventures Inc. (Bluware)
- Seller
- EV Private Equity
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Computer Modelling Group Ltd. (CMG) acquired Bluware-Headwave Ventures Inc., a cloud-native AI and deep-learning software and services provider for subsurface decision-making, from majority owner EV Private Equity. CMG paid US$22 million with an additional earn-out of up to US$8 million; Bluware reported approximately US$23.5 million revenue in its most recent fiscal year and provides the InteractivAI product and proprietary VDS data format for seismic data.
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September 18, 2023
- Buyer
- Elixirr
- Target
- Responsum
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Elixirr has acquired Responsum, a generative AI and large-language-model acceleration platform founded in Austin, Texas, to strengthen its AI and digital capabilities. The acquisition brings Responsum's technical expertise and platform into Elixirr's consulting offering to accelerate client deployments of generative AI across sales, support and executive analytics use cases.
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August 22, 2023
- Buyer
- Trive Capital
- Target
- Hypergiant Industries
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Addon
Dallas-based private equity firm Trive Capital has acquired AI defense platform company Hypergiant Industries to complement its portfolio company Forward Slope. Hypergiant CEO Mike Betzer will remain in place as the company scales its cloud-based CommandCenter geospatial data visualization and AI-enabled C5ISR offerings; terms were not disclosed.
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March 6, 2023
- Buyer
- Digital Wave Technology, Inc.
- Target
- GoalProfit, Inc.
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Digital Wave Technology, an AI-powered omnichannel platform provider based in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, has acquired GoalProfit, a retail AI and optimization SaaS company with operations in Austin, Texas and Helsinki, Finland. The acquisition brings GoalProfit's data science and low-code analytical architecture capabilities into Digital Wave to accelerate development of its omnichannel AI solutions for retailers and brands.
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December 9, 2022
- Buyer
- Tecnotree Corporation
- Target
- CognitiveScale
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Tecnotree Corporation (Espoo, Finland) has agreed to acquire CognitiveScale, an Austin-based AI engineering platform provider, to expand Tecnotree's AI/ML capabilities and accelerate 5G use-case monetization in North America. The deal is expected to contribute roughly EUR 5 million of ARR in 2023 and is subject to customary conditions, with closing expected in 2022.
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- Buyer
- Thomson Reuters
- Target
- ThoughtTrace, Inc.
- Seller
- Altira Group LLC
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Thomson Reuters has acquired Houston-based AI document analytics company ThoughtTrace from Altira Group. The acquisition brings ThoughtTrace's AI/ML-powered contract and document intelligence capabilities into Thomson Reuters' product portfolio; financial terms were not disclosed.
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- Buyer
- Advent International
- Target
- Iodine Software
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Growth capital
Advent International agreed to acquire a significant stake in Iodine Software in a strategic growth investment that values the company at over $1 billion. The capital will support Iodine's expansion of its AI-powered clinical documentation and revenue-cycle products (CognitiveML) and help scale its go-to-market reach across hospitals and health systems.
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November 23, 2021
- Buyer
- Source Capital, Source Capital Credit Opportunities IV, LP (SCCO IV), Source Capital SBIC Fund
- Target
- Nexus Cognitive Solutions
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Growth capital
Source Capital, via its credit fund (Source Capital Credit Opportunities IV, LP) and its SBIC fund, has made an investment in Nexus Cognitive Solutions by providing debt financing to support Nexus’s acquisition of a cloud solutions and software development services provider. Nexus Cognitive Solutions, a service-disabled veteran-owned AI, data analytics and software-development firm headquartered in Addison, Texas, will use the financing to deepen its cloud, systems-integration and software development capabilities and accelerate growth in the public sector and enterprise markets.
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August 30, 2021
- Buyer
- Zebra Technologies Corporation
- Target
- antuit.ai
- Seller
- Consortium led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Zebra Technologies has acquired antuit.ai, an AI-powered SaaS provider of demand forecasting and merchandising solutions for the retail and CPG industries. The acquisition (previously owned by a consortium led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management) expands Zebra's retail software portfolio by adding advanced AI forecasting capabilities to better connect planning and execution across customers' supply chains and store operations.
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February 23, 2021
- Buyer
- SparkCognition
- Target
- AIM2
- Seller
- Brevan Howard, Nomura
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Buyout
SparkCognition has entered into an agreement to acquire AIM2, a financial-technology company focused on AI-driven market-making and quantitative trading products, from Brevan Howard and Nomura. The deal brings AIM2 products (including ORCA/AI Trader, Alpha Cycles, and Alpha Waves) and its team into SparkCognition to expand the company's AI capabilities and offerings for the financial services vertical.
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October 27, 2020
- Buyer
- Navigate360
- Target
- Social Sentinel
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Navigate360 has acquired Social Sentinel, an AI- and linguistics-based software platform that scans digital conversations to identify potential safety threats and mental-health signals. The purchase integrates Social Sentinel’s threat-detection capabilities into Navigate360’s tip-reporting, behavioral threat assessment and safety training offerings to expand its proactive prevention tools for schools and businesses.
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July 9, 2020
- Buyer
- Planview
- Target
- Aptage
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Planview has acquired Aptage, an AI/ML specialist focused on applying machine learning to portfolio and work management to provide early insights into project value and delivery risk. The acquisition embeds Aptage's AI/ML IP across the Planview product portfolio and brings Aptage co-founders John Heintz and Dr. Murray Cantor into Planview to lead AI/product and data science roles.
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April 28, 2020
- Buyer
- KKR (KKR Next Generation Technology Growth Fund II)
- Target
- o9 Solutions, Inc.
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Type
- Growth capital
KKR has made a minority equity investment in o9 Solutions, valuing the AI-powered integrated business planning platform at over $1 billion. The funding (from KKR Next Generation Technology Growth Fund II) is o9's first external capital raise and will be used to accelerate go-to-market initiatives, global expansion and continued product development.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Which buyers are showing up repeatedly in Texas AI & machine learning acquisitions?
Recurring names in the Texas listings include Source Capital (and related funds), Computer Modelling Group Ltd. (CMG), Navigate360, Digital Wave Technology, Inc., Tabhi Inc., and TCW Asset Management Company LLC.
What kinds of AI/ML capabilities are buyers in Texas focusing on?
The deals highlight capability add-ons like multilingual/voice AI, real-time avatar and animation for enterprise/entertainment use, predictive analytics platforms, AI-driven ophthalmic image analysis, open-source AI engineering delivery, and managed HPC/AI services.
Are these acquisitions tied to specific industries or applications?
Yes. The page includes transactions connected to areas such as clinical trial imaging for ophthalmology, geospatial and defense/C5ISR offerings, subsurface decision-making, AI-powered scheduling for B2B sales teams, and AI agents for fuels and convenience retail.
Do any deals emphasize keeping operations in Texas?
Several transactions note Texas continuity. For example, one deal states the acquired team will remain based in Austin, and another notes a company will remain headquartered in Austin after the acquisition.