AI & Machine Learning Acquisitions in 2026

ADT has acquired Origin AI for $170 million in cash to integrate Origin's AI sensing platform and related IP into ADT's smart home and security offerings. The deal brings Origin's sensorless ambient-intelligence technology and more than 200 patents to ADT to enhance presence detection, reduce false alarms, and enable new aging-in-place and occupancy-based automation use cases.

Anthropic has acquired Seattle-based startup Vercept and will integrate Vercept’s team and technology into its Claude product to improve autonomous computer-use and multi-step task performance. Vercept will wind down its external product as its employees join Anthropic to help expand Claude’s ability to operate inside live applications and handle complex workflows.

Augmented Intelligence (AUI) has acquired Quack AI, a developer of trainable AI agents for customer service. The deal brings Quack AI's ~15-person team into AUI, is expected to double AUI's Israeli R&D presence in Tel Aviv, and will integrate Quack's agent technology with AUI's Apollo-1 neuro-symbolic AI platform to expand customer service automation capabilities.

Brookfield-backed Radiant has merged with and acquired UK AI infrastructure startup Ori to create a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform backed by Brookfield’s Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Fund. The combined business — Radiant powered by Ori — will deploy large‑scale, sovereign compute capacity for governments, telcos, hyperscalers and global technology customers, supported by up to $100 billion of program capital.

HaystackID has acquired AI legal-technology provider eDiscovery AI to accelerate GenAI-enabled legal, compliance, regulatory and cybersecurity workflows; financial terms were not disclosed. eDiscovery AI will maintain leadership continuity under CEO Jim Sullivan and continue to serve some clients as a separate entity while its technology is integrated into HaystackID's core AI offerings.

Fractional AI, a San Francisco-based applied AI services firm, has acquired Fabius, a Y Combinator startup that automates sales and operational workflows using generative AI. The deal expands Fractional AI's product and capability set for enterprise and private-equity backed clients by integrating Fabius's sales automation technology and team.

Global Clean Energy has acquired Flamelit, a mission-driven AI and data science firm, and folded its consulting operations into Global Clean Energy's new AI Division. The deal brings Flamelit's active client contracts, $2.1 million in historical revenue, and a team including four core employees (plus a bench of senior data scientists) to accelerate AI-driven solutions across energy, infrastructure, climate resilience, and public health.

Livechain, Inc. (a subsidiary of Vyome Holdings) executed a debt purchase agreement with Remus Capital to acquire the senior, secured convertible note of Sociometric Solutions, Inc. d/b/a Humanyze in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $325,000. Livechain initiated a default and asset transfer to assume Humanyze's business assets, including intellectual property, and to take direct control of daily operations as it expands into AI-enabled HR analytics.

Procurement Sciences has acquired Rogue AI (branded as UseRogue), an AI-native proposal and workflow automation company for government contractors, to integrate advanced proposal drafting and workflow automation into its end-to-end AI growth platform. The deal brings Rogue AI founder John Shahawy into Procurement Sciences as Head of Product Strategy and is intended to accelerate the company's capability expansion across opportunity discovery, capture, proposal development, compliance automation, and delivery intelligence.

Labelbox has acquired Upcraft, an AI-powered sales automation startup, to integrate Upcraft's agentic sales automation technology into Alignerr, Labelbox's expert network for AI training data. Terms were not disclosed; Upcraft was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Chicago.

Doctrine has acquired Maite.ai, a Spanish legal AI platform, marking Doctrine's entry into the Spanish market and expanding its European footprint. The deal strengthens Doctrine's pan‑European legal AI platform by adding Maite.ai's AI copilot technology and customer base, while Maite.ai will retain its brand and Barcelona team.

Dallas-based private equity firm Trive Capital has made an investment in PavCon, a provider of predictive analytics and decision‑support software serving U.S. defense customers. The partnership will fund PavCon’s growth—investing behind its talent, technology and scalable operating model—to accelerate delivery of AI-driven predictive solutions; financial terms were not disclosed.

Trax Ltd. has divested its non-China Image Recognition (IR) business to an affiliate of Gemspring Capital. The acquired unit will be merged with FORM (creators of GoSpotCheck and FORM OpX) to form a combined company focused on retail execution and shelf intelligence, while Trax Ltd. retains Shopkick, Survey and LenzTech and pursues a more focused portfolio strategy.

Thomson Reuters has acquired Noetica, a New York–based AI-native platform that converts transaction deal data into structured market intelligence for deal professionals. The deal brings Noetica's analytics and AI talent into Thomson Reuters to integrate with its CoCounsel offering, enhancing benchmarking, term-search, and transaction-level analysis for legal and finance teams.

HUMAIN, a Public Investment Fund-backed AI company, has acquired a controlling stake in London-headquartered sports AI firm ai.io and launched a dedicated sports vertical called HUMAIN Sport. The deal combines HUMAIN’s full‑stack AI infrastructure with ai.io’s sports-focused products (3DAT, aiScout, aiLab) to accelerate capability deployment in Saudi Arabia and international markets.

Phenom has acquired Be Applied (Applied), an AI-driven cognitive assessment platform, to integrate evidence-based skills and cognitive testing into its applied-AI HR platform. The deal aims to accelerate enterprise-scale skills-first hiring by embedding adaptive, validated assessments into Phenom's talent acquisition and employee development workflows.

ActiveCampaign has acquired Feedback Intelligence, an AI evaluation and analytics platform that converts raw agent and user conversations into structured insights to improve AI agent performance. The acquisition will integrate Feedback Intelligence's conversation analysis and specialized evaluation models into ActiveCampaign's Active Intelligence to accelerate continuous improvement of AI-driven marketing workflows.

GOcxm, a Toronto-based retail execution and consumer engagement technology provider, has acquired Emotive Technologies, the company behind Apex — an AI-powered consumer insights and decision intelligence platform. The acquisition embeds Apex’s predictive intelligence, simulation, and behavioral-science-trained AI into GOcxm’s Shopper Engagement and Execution Platform to accelerate AI-driven recommendations and improve in-market decisioning.

UiPath has acquired WorkFusion, a pioneer in AI agents for financial crime compliance, to expand its agentic automation platform and strengthen solutions for banking and financial services. The deal closed in UiPath's first quarter of fiscal 2027; terms were not disclosed.

Sauvegarder Investment Management (SIM IP) and AI-driven patent intelligence firm Garden Intel have closed a merger that values Garden Intel at $150 million. The combined company will operate under the SIM IP brand, integrating Garden's agentic AI infrastructure with SIM IP's IP monetization platform to scale patent-based investing and prepare for the public markets.

Ouster, Inc. (Nasdaq: OUST) completed the acquisition of StereoLabs SAS on February 4, 2026, paying roughly $35 million in cash plus 1.8 million shares (0.7 million of which vest over four years). The deal brings StereoLabs' ZED stereo cameras, perception software, and ~10,000 customers into Ouster's unified sensing and perception platform to combine lidar, cameras, AI compute, sensor fusion and perception software and accelerate capability and market expansion.

Banyan Software has acquired Gini, a Munich-based provider of AI-driven document-intelligence and payment solutions for banks, insurers and e-commerce businesses. Gini will continue to operate independently with its leadership and brand intact while Banyan provides long-term capital, operational support and resources to expand Gini’s product and market reach across banking, private health insurance and e-commerce.

DC Capital Partners announced a majority investment in Knexus, an applied AI platform that designs, builds, and operates enterprise-grade AI systems for U.S. defense and civilian agencies. The investment will support Knexus’ growth through business development, technology, and operations to scale its mission-focused AI capabilities for government customers.

SpaceX has acquired xAI in a transaction reported to value the combined company at about $1.25 trillion. The deal is described as a vertical integration to combine SpaceX’s launch and satellite infrastructure with xAI’s AI model development capabilities, including ambitions for space-based data centers and orbital compute.

Marvell Technology, Inc. completed its acquisition of Celestial AI, bringing Celestial’s Photonic Fabric optical interconnect technology into Marvell’s Data Center Group to strengthen its AI and data center connectivity capabilities. Marvell expects initial revenue contributions beginning in the second half of fiscal 2028, with material ramp to a $500 million annualized run rate by Q4 FY2028 and $1 billion by Q4 FY2029; the deal reduced Marvell’s cash balance by $1 billion and added roughly $50 million in annual non-GAAP operating expenses.

Tarabut, a regulated open banking platform active across Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, has acquired Servable.dev, a Bahrain-based full‑stack AI engineering company. The acquisition will integrate Servable’s enterprise AI capabilities into Tarabut’s platform to accelerate AI-native financial use cases (credit risk, fraud detection, income verification, compliance automation) and expand Tarabut’s offering across the GCC.

Apple has acquired Q.ai, an Israeli audio-focused AI startup, in a deal reported to value the company at roughly $1.6 billion (estimates vary). Q.ai’s ~100 employees, including CEO Aviad Maizels and co‑founders, will join Apple as the company looks to integrate Q.ai’s audio and “silent speech” imaging/ML technology into its hardware and voice-enabled products.

Handshake has acquired Cleanlab to integrate Cleanlab’s data-quality, confident learning, and LLM-evaluation research and technologies into Handshake’s talent and AI services. The acquisition positions Handshake to offer stronger data-quality and model-evaluation capabilities to frontier AI labs and enterprise customers, while Cleanlab’s open-source package will remain available under a more permissive Apache-2.0 license.

Southfield Capital has acquired Contextual.io, an AI orchestration platform and solutions provider, and will integrate the business into its lower-middle-market value creation model. The acquisition embeds Contextual’s AI orchestration and solution delivery capabilities into Southfield’s partnership model to accelerate operational transformation and identify AI-driven investment opportunities; terms were not disclosed.

Swiss deep-tech firm LatticeFlow AI has acquired Dublin-based AI Sonar Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of CloudSphere Ltd., to add on-prem AI discovery capabilities to its evidence-based AI governance platform. LatticeFlow assumes ownership of AI Sonar's platform, IP and engineering operations, establishes Dublin as an R&D hub, and will integrate AI Sonar's discovery capabilities with its centralized SaaS governance stack.

Harvey has acquired Hexus, a two-year-old startup that builds AI-driven tools for creating product demos, videos, and guides. The deal brings Hexus's San Francisco engineering team into Harvey to accelerate product capabilities focused on in-house legal departments and to speed product iteration and customer-facing experiences.

D-Wave Quantum Inc. has completed its acquisition of Quantum Circuits Inc. in a deal valued at approximately $550 million (about $300M in stock and $250M in cash). The purchase brings Quantum Circuits' error-corrected dual-rail superconducting gate-model qubit technology and team (including co-founder Dr. Rob Schoelkopf) into D-Wave to accelerate a dual-platform roadmap and advance an initial gate-model system targeted for 2026.

Docebo Inc. has acquired all outstanding shares of France-based skills intelligence firm 365Talents for approximately $54.6 million in cash plus up to $5.1 million in earn-outs. The deal embeds 365Talents' AI-driven skills intelligence and workforce analytics into Docebo's AI-powered learning platform while retaining the 365Talents brand and leadership; Docebo expects ~USD$9 million in revenue from the business through December 31, 2026.

Apprentice.io has acquired Ganymede, an AI-powered cloud platform that standardizes and automates lab and process data, to extend its manufacturing intelligence platform into wet-lab R&D and diagnostics. The acquisition integrates Ganymede's Lab-as-Code technology into Apprentice.io's Tempo platform to create a continuous digital thread linking instrument-level data, process execution, and manufacturing intelligence from R&D through commercial scale.

ConnectWise has acquired zofiQ, an agentic AI company that automates high-volume MSP service desk operations, embedding zofiQ agents into ConnectWise PSA workflows. The acquisition is intended to accelerate ConnectWise's "Age of Autonomous Service," extend agentic automation across its platform (PSA, RMM, cybersecurity, data protection), and help MSP partners scale service delivery without proportionally increasing headcount.

DEALSAGE, an AI-native M&A intelligence and analytics platform founded by Mario Mancuso and Louis Citron, received growth investment from Duke University Management Company (DUMAC) and Teamworthy Ventures to support expansion into private equity sponsors, law firms, corporate development teams, and institutional LPs. The funding will accelerate product and go-to-market efforts for DEALSAGE's decision-grade, AI-driven M&A risk and diligence platform; no deal amount was disclosed.

Lightning AI has completed a merger with Voltage Park, combining Lightning’s AI software platform and PyTorch Lightning ecosystem with Voltage Park’s large-scale GPU infrastructure to operate under the Lightning AI name. The combined company offers integrated AI software and on‑demand GPU compute (35,000+ GPUs) and reports rapid ARR growth and broad developer adoption.

Procore Technologies has acquired Datagrid to accelerate its agentic AI strategy and enhance data connectivity across construction tech stacks. Datagrid’s AI reasoning and integrations will be folded into Procore’s platform and offered to both Procore and non‑Procore customers; Datagrid CEO Thiago da Costa will join Procore to lead AI and data strategy. The deal closed in January 2026; financial terms were not disclosed.

Phenom has acquired Included, an AI-native people analytics platform, to integrate agentic workforce analytics and actionable insights into Phenom's applied AI HR platform. The deal expands Phenom's workforce intelligence capabilities by standardizing disparate HR data, adding conversational AI-driven analytics and actionable recommendations for HR teams and business leaders.

Cloudflare has acquired Human Native, a London-based AI data marketplace founded in 2024 that connects content creators and publishers with AI developers for dataset discovery, licensing and monetization. The acquisition (financial terms not disclosed) brings Human Native’s team and technology into Cloudflare’s product roadmap to help publishers monetize content and enable AI developers to find and license high-quality data.

Information Services Group (ISG) has acquired the AI Maturity Index, a SaaS platform that assesses and benchmarks workforce readiness for AI adoption. The acquisition expands ISG's AI capabilities as it forms a new AI Acceleration Unit and plans an AI-powered insights platform; co-founder Eryn Peters will serve as product and strategy leader for the platform.

Tel Aviv-based Tasq AI has merged with BLEND to form a unified company under the Tasq AI brand, combining proprietary data-refinery technology with BLEND's global human and localization network. The merged business says it will generate tens of millions of dollars in revenue, serve ~200 enterprise customers, and employ roughly 120 people; financial terms were not disclosed.

AstraZeneca has acquired Modella AI, a Boston-based biomedical AI company, to integrate its multimodal foundation models and agentic AI platform into AstraZeneca's global oncology R&D organization. The deal expands an existing multi-year collaboration to accelerate clinical development, improve biomarker discovery, and drive data-driven decision-making across AstraZeneca's oncology pipeline; financial terms were not disclosed.

Teamworks has acquired Sportlogiq, the Montreal-based leader in AI-powered hockey analytics, integrating Sportlogiq’s computer vision and tracking technology into Teamworks’ Intelligence platform. Sportlogiq’s team of roughly 80 employees (including 10 AI researchers) and its iCE platform will join Teamworks to expand its analytics, game-preparation, and talent-evaluation capabilities across professional and collegiate sports.

Pavonis Group has acquired CRE Marketing Hub, an AI-driven marketing and deal-preparation platform for commercial real estate professionals. The platform's founders, Ross and Tracee Jones, will continue to collaborate with Pavonis as CRE Marketing Hub is integrated into Pavonis-sponsored RealNex to expand AI-driven workflow and marketing capabilities for CRE clients.

Affinity Group, a North American sales and marketing agency, has acquired Mascari NXT, an AI-driven data integration and analytics company, to embed AI-powered selling into its foodservice and retail offerings. Mascari NXT will operate as a subsidiary—"Mascari NXT, An Affinity Group Company"—with the acquisition intended to expand Affinity Group's customer reach and strengthen its sales enablement and analytics capabilities across food industry channels.

Hippocratic AI has acquired Grove AI to accelerate its Life Sciences Division, integrating Grove AI's agentic AI platform and team to expand clinical engagement and trial operations capabilities. The move complements Hippocratic AI's Polaris safety architecture and follows its recent $126M Series C, while the company also launched a Life Sciences Executive Advisory Council and a strategic collaboration with BCG.

Siemens Digital Industries Software has acquired Canopus AI, a Grenoble-based developer of AI-driven metrology and inspection software for semiconductor wafer and mask inspection. The acquisition integrates Canopus AI’s AI-enabled metrology capabilities into Siemens’ Calibre/EDA portfolio to improve inspection fidelity, accelerate yield ramp and expand Siemens’ semiconductor manufacturing digital thread.

Hurricane Capital has acquired Kiyomi AI, a portfolio-intelligence platform developed by Jacob Koenig, to embed its explainable, AI-driven trading and execution insights into Hurricane’s broader AI stack. Kiyomi AI will be integrated into Transient.AI and offered via Transient’s SaaS suite to provide institutional-grade governance, interoperability, and scalable model orchestration; financial terms were not disclosed.

Standard AI has acquired Pathr.ai, a spatial intelligence startup that analyzes in-store movement and behavior, bringing Pathr.ai’s founder and several team members into Standard AI’s engineering organization. The deal expands Standard AI’s computer-vision and spatial analytics capabilities to accelerate enterprise retail deployments and global expansion.