Tracked deals
158
158 tracked deals across 2017-2026.
AI & Machine Learning Buyers & Acquisitions in California
Buyer mix
Strategic-led
157 strategic · 30 pe
Top trend
Volume peaked in 2025
45 tracked deals announced in 2025.
Primary Insight
What Stands Out
- Rights, compliance, and governance themes appear in deals such as Warner Music Group acquiring Sureel AI and Bloomberg Industry Group acquiring Regology.
- Enterprise delivery and workflow integration show up repeatedly, from quote-to-cash automation (Augment / Merlin) to regulatory change management (Bloomberg Industry Group / Regology).
- Infrastructure-adjacent moves include scaling edge-to-core and rack-scale data center technology (e.g., DIMAAG / Akridata and d-Matrix acquiring GigaIO’s data center business).
- Buyer activity includes both strategic tech platforms (Webflow, SoundHound AI) and financial/enterprise backers (recurring names include Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., Insight Partners L.P., and SoftBank Group Corp.).
| Buyer | Representative deal theme (from recent headlines) |
|---|---|
| Warner Music Group | Protecting and monetizing rights tied to AI-generated content |
| Bloomberg Industry Group | AI-driven regulatory change management |
| Augment | Automating enterprise supply-chain workflows |
| SoundHound AI | Building omnichannel conversational AI for enterprises |
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Top Buyers
Illustrative buyers pulled from tracked transactions on this page. This table is capped and intentionally non-exhaustive.
| Buyer | # Deals | Focus | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFS | 3 | Provider of enterprise cloud and Industrial AI software (... | Strategic (PE-backed) |
| Nvidia | 3 | Designer and manufacturer of GPUs and AI/data-center hard... | Strategic |
| Workday, Inc. | 3 | Enterprise AI-first software platform for human capital m... | Strategic |
| Appen Limited | 2 | Provider of high-quality, human-annotated datasets and AI... | Strategic |
| Applied Intuition, Inc. | 2 | Provider of vehicle and autonomy software toolchains and ... | Strategic |
| DataRobot | 2 | Provider of an enterprise AI platform focused on automate... | Strategic |
| ServiceNow | 2 | Provider of a cloud‑based Now Platform delivering digital... | Strategic |
| Uniphore | 2 | Provider of a conversational automation platform combinin... | Strategic |
| 365 Retail Markets | 1 | Provider of self-service retail and point-of-sale technol... | Strategic (PE-backed) |
| AE Industrial Partners, LP | 1 | Private equity firm focused on aerospace, defense, govern... | PE |
Acquisition Volume in AI & Machine Learning in California by Year
Last 10 years
Actual
Full-year estimate
Supporting Data
Recent Transactions
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June 10, 2026
- Buyer
- Warner Music Group
- Target
- Sureel AI
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Warner Music Group (WMG) has agreed to acquire Sureel AI, an AI attribution and intellectual property tracking company. The deal is intended to strengthen WMG’s ability to protect, control, and monetize rights tied to AI-generated content, including name, image, likeness, and voice.
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June 3, 2026
- Buyer
- Bloomberg Industry Group
- Target
- Regology
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Bloomberg Industry Group acquired Regology, an AI-powered global regulatory intelligence platform. The deal expands Bloomberg Industry Group’s ability to deliver more proactive, AI-driven regulatory change management by combining Regology’s regulatory coverage and Smart Law Library with Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Tax, and Bloomberg Government data and intelligence.
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June 2, 2026
- Buyer
- JMI Equity
- Target
- SewerAI
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Growth capital
SewerAI, an AI platform for sewer and underground infrastructure intelligence, announced a major strategic growth equity investment led by JMI Equity. The round includes continued participation from Innovius Capital, Epic Ventures, and Bentley Systems, with funds intended to accelerate AI-driven inspection, assessment, rehabilitation planning, and asset management capabilities.
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- Buyer
- DIMAAG
- Target
- Akridata
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
DIMAAG, a deep technology company focused on industrial AI, energy systems, and high-performance infrastructure for AI data centers, announced its acquisition of Akridata. The deal adds AI vision systems, edge processing, and human-assisted inspection workflows to strengthen DIMAAG’s enterprise-scale Physical AI platform.
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- Buyer
- Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman
- Target
- Fractional AI
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Anthropic’s Blackstone- and Hellman & Friedman-backed enterprise services joint venture acquired Fractional AI, an applied AI implementation firm based in San Francisco. The acquisition provides the new (as-yet-unnamed) venture with Fractional’s delivery team to help midsize businesses deploy Anthropic’s Claude into core operations.
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- Buyer
- Envirotech Vehicles, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVTV)
- Target
- AZIO AI Corp., AZIO Corp's AI infrastructure division (as described as part of the transaction assets)
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
AZIO AI executed a definitive merger agreement with Envirotech Vehicles, Inc. to create a U.S.-focused AI infrastructure and compute platform, supported by an independent third-party fairness opinion. The transaction is structured at a $750 million valuation, with EVTV to issue 100 million shares of its common stock; closing is expected in the second half of 2026 subject to SEC and shareholder approvals.
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May 12, 2026
- Buyer
- Indie Semiconductor
- Target
- ams OSRAM AG CMOS image sensor product line / fabless CMOS image sensor group
- Seller
- ams OSRAM AG
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Indie Semiconductor has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the fabless CMOS image sensor group (product line) from ams OSRAM AG for total consideration of €40 million. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2026, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
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- Buyer
- Augment
- Target
- Merlin
- Seller
- Applico Capital (founder Alex Moazed led Merlin; no explicit seller entity named)
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Augment, an AI productivity platform for supply chain, announced it acquired Merlin, a stealth AI startup focused on wholesale distribution. Merlin’s capabilities are being integrated into Augie, Augment’s flagship AI teammate, to automate the quote-to-cash lifecycle for enterprise distributors while keeping customer data isolated per enterprise.
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- Buyer
- Banneker Partners
- Target
- ResFrac Corporation
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Growth capital
Banneker Partners announced a platform investment in ResFrac Corporation, which develops a fully integrated reservoir simulation and hydraulic fracturing software platform. The investment is intended to support ResFrac’s ongoing platform innovation, expansion into adjacent capabilities, and scaling of its team and roadmap.
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April 15, 2026
- Buyer
- Sanas
- Target
- Tomato.ai
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Sanas, a real-time Speech AI platform for enterprise and global communications, announced it has acquired Tomato.ai. The deal expands Sanas’s capabilities in real-time speech processing, voice transformation, and low-latency inference, with production-grade integrations across communications platforms, VoIP environments, and carrier-adjacent systems.
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April 2, 2026
- Buyer
- d-Matrix
- Target
- GigaIO's data center business, GigaIO, Inc.
- Seller
- GigaIO, Inc.
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
d-Matrix announced it has acquired GigaIO's data center business, including core rack-scale infrastructure and high-performance interconnect technologies. GigaIO will continue as an independent entity focused on edge computing.
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March 19, 2026
- Buyer
- Findem
- Target
- Glider AI
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Findem, an AI platform for talent outcomes, entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Glider AI, a skills validation platform. The combined offering is intended to deliver end-to-end “hire-ready” candidates by integrating talent discovery with skills assessments, autonomous AI interviews, and identity verification. The deal is expected to close in the coming weeks, subject to customary closing conditions, and Glider AI will continue under its existing brand post-close.
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- Buyer
- Webflow
- Target
- Vidoso.ai
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Webflow announced it has acquired Vidoso.ai, a Bay Area-based multi-modal AI asset generation startup. Webflow said the deal will strengthen its agentic web marketing platform by integrating Vidoso’s AI agents and technology to generate brand-aligned visual and video assets within governed marketing workflows.
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March 12, 2026
- Buyer
- Invisible Technologies
- Target
- WeCP
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Invisible Technologies entered into an agreement to acquire WeCP, an AI-native technical assessment and intelligence platform. The deal will bring WeCP’s rigorously validated evaluation frameworks and assessment infrastructure into Invisible’s AI training platform, Meridial, to improve expert validation for high-precision AI workflows.
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March 4, 2026
- Buyer
- Coframe
- Target
- HaystacksAI
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Coframe announced it has acquired HaystacksAI, an AI-powered growth and sales intelligence startup, to strengthen its autonomous experimentation platform and expand go-to-market capabilities. HaystacksAI founder and CEO Bo Mohazzabi joined Coframe as Vice President of Go-To-Market to lead sales, growth, and customer strategy and contribute to the product roadmap.
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February 26, 2026
- Buyer
- Fractional AI
- Target
- Fabius
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Fractional AI, an applied AI and custom generative AI solutions provider, announced its acquisition of Fabius, a Y Combinator startup automating sales and operational workflows with AI. The deal is intended to strengthen Fractional’s position and expand the scope and scale of applied AI services for enterprises and private equity-backed companies.
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February 10, 2026
- Buyer
- Marvell Technology, Inc.
- Target
- XConn Technologies
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Marvell Technology, Inc. completed its previously announced acquisition of XConn Technologies, a provider of advanced PCIe and CXL switching silicon. The deal expands Marvell’s switching portfolio and strengthens its UALink scale-up switching roadmap for next-generation AI and cloud data center architectures.
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February 9, 2026
- Buyer
- ActiveCampaign
- Target
- Feedback Intelligence
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
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.
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February 2, 2026
- Buyer
- SpaceX
- Target
- xAI
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
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.
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January 29, 2026
- Buyer
- Handshake
- Target
- Cleanlab
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
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.
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January 23, 2026
- Buyer
- Apprentice.io
- Target
- Ganymede
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
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.
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January 23, 2026
- Buyer
- D-Wave Quantum Inc.
- Target
- Quantum Circuits Inc.
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
D-Wave Quantum Inc. completed its previously announced acquisition of Quantum Circuits Inc. in a $550 million deal, adding error-corrected superconducting gate-model technology to its dual-platform quantum computing roadmap. The combined company is expected to accelerate delivery of scaled, fault-tolerant gate-model systems alongside D-Wave’s already commercial annealing systems, with initial gate-model hardware planned to be generally available in 2026.
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January 21, 2026
- Buyer
- Duke University Management Company (DUMAC), Teamworthy Ventures
- Target
- DEALSAGE
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Growth capital
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.
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January 21, 2026
- Buyer
- Lightning AI
- Target
- Voltage Park
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
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.
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January 20, 2026
- Buyer
- Procore Technologies, Inc.
- Target
- Datagrid
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
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.
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January 14, 2026
- Buyer
- Pavonis Group
- Target
- CRE Marketing Hub
- Seller
- Ross Jones, Tracee Jones
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
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.
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January 12, 2026
- Buyer
- Hippocratic AI
- Target
- Grove AI
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
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.
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January 12, 2026
- Buyer
- Churchill Capital Corp IX
- Target
- Plus Automation, Inc. (PlusAI)
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Churchill Capital Corp IX (NASDAQ: CCIX) and Plus Automation, Inc. (PlusAI) announced a proposed business combination, with the SEC-declared-effective S-4 serving as a key step toward completion. The SPAC scheduled/rescheduled an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders to vote on the merger, with Nasdaq listing anticipated for the post-combination company under ticker symbols “PLS” and “PLSW.”
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January 9, 2026
- Buyer
- Standard AI
- Target
- Pathr.ai
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
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.
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December 7, 2025
- Buyer
- Perceptive Capital Solutions Corp (PCSC), Perceptive Advisors, RA Capital
- Target
- Freenome Holdings, Inc., StarNet Merger Sub I, Corp., StarNet Merger Sub II, LLC
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Perceptive Capital Solutions Corp (PCSC) and Freenome Holdings agreed to merge in a SPAC transaction that is expected to take the cancer-detection company public, providing approximately $330 million in fresh capital (assuming no redemptions). The deal includes a $240 million PIPE led by Perceptive Advisors and RA Capital and is expected to close in the first half of 2026 / July 2026 subject to approvals and customary conditions.
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November 12, 2025
- Buyer
- Bullhound Capital, Triatomic Capital, Temasek, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), EDBI, M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund), Mirae Asset, Industry Ventures, Nautilus Venture Partners
- Target
- d-Matrix
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Growth capital
d-Matrix raised $275 million in an oversubscribed Series C led by Bullhound Capital, Triatomic Capital and Temasek, valuing the company at about $2.0 billion. The round — which included new investors QIA and EDBI and follow-on participation from M12, Mirae Asset, Industry Ventures and Nautilus Venture Partners — will fund product roadmap acceleration, global expansion and large-scale deployments of its AI inference data center platform.
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November 11, 2025
- Buyer
- Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
- Target
- MK1
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
AMD has completed the acquisition of MK1, a Mountain View, California-based AI startup focused on high-speed inference and reasoning technologies. MK1’s Flywheel and comprehension engine technologies—optimized for AMD Instinct GPUs and reportedly processing over one trillion tokens per day—will integrate into the AMD Artificial Intelligence Group to strengthen the company’s enterprise AI inference and reasoning capabilities.
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November 6, 2025
- Buyer
- fal
- Target
- Remade
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
fal, the generative media platform for developers, has acquired Remade, a Y Combinator–backed AI-native workspace for creative and design teams. The acquisition—fal's first since launching in 2021—brings Remade's team, models and tooling into fal to accelerate generative media capabilities and integrations.
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November 4, 2025
- Buyer
- Automation Anywhere
- Target
- Aisera
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Automation Anywhere has acquired Aisera to integrate Aisera's conversational AI agents and agentic solutions into its Agentic Process Automation (APA) platform, expanding its AI-driven automation capabilities across ITSM, HR and customer service. Aisera's team (including more than 100 AI engineers) will join Automation Anywhere; BofA Securities advised Automation Anywhere and J.P. Morgan advised Aisera.
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November 1, 2025
- Buyer
- Harbinger
- Target
- Phantom AI
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Harbinger, an American medium-duty electric and hybrid vehicle manufacturer, acquired autonomous driving company Phantom AI. In parallel, Harbinger and ZF Group’s ADAS business unit agreed to license Phantom AI’s computer vision for ZF passenger-car ADAS products, while Harbinger plans to integrate the technology into its vehicles in 2026.
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October 30, 2025
- Buyer
- Nuvocargo
- Target
- Mentum
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Nuvocargo has acquired Mentum, a Y Combinator–backed AI agents startup, to accelerate integration of agent-driven automation into NuvoOS. The Mentum team, including founder Gustavo Trigos, will join Nuvocargo's R&D organization to enhance AI capabilities across procurement, quoting, and supply‑chain workflows; terms were not disclosed.
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October 22, 2025
- Buyer
- Skan AI
- Target
- Metaculars
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Skan AI, the Menlo Park-based enterprise process intelligence provider, has acquired Metaculars to integrate agentic AI capabilities into its Observation-to-Agent platform. Metaculars' founders and engineering team will join Skan AI to accelerate in-app AI agents for workflow automation, onboarding, and real-time decision-making across regulated industries such as financial services and healthcare.
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October 9, 2025
- Buyer
- Elastic
- Target
- Jina AI
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Elastic has completed the acquisition of Jina AI, a developer of open-source multimodal and multilingual embeddings, rerankers, and small language models. The deal strengthens Elastic's capabilities in vector search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and context engineering, and brings Jina's models and research into Elastic's Search AI Platform and Elastic Inference Service on Elastic Cloud.
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October 9, 2025
- Buyer
- Redis
- Target
- Featureform
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Redis has acquired Featureform, a feature-store framework for managing and serving structured data for ML. The acquisition integrates Featureform into Redis’ feature store and vector search capabilities to provide real-time, versioned feature pipelines and improved observability for AI agents and production ML workflows.
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- Buyer
- EQT Growth
- Target
- Harvey
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Growth capital
Harvey, a domain-specific AI provider for legal and professional services, has received a €50 million growth investment from EQT Growth to support rapid international expansion. The capital is part of an extended Series E round that follows a $300 million Series E led by Kleiner Perkins and Coatue earlier in 2025.
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October 1, 2025
- Buyer
- Workday, Inc.
- Target
- Paradox
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Workday completed its acquisition of Paradox, a conversational AI candidate experience agent that simplifies job applications and hiring workflows, especially for high-volume frontline industries. By combining Paradox with Workday Recruiting and HiredScore, Workday is rolling out a unified, end-to-end AI-powered talent acquisition suite for faster hiring and better candidate experiences.
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September 30, 2025
- Buyer
- Perplexity
- Target
- Visual Electric
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Perplexity has acquired Visual Electric and will integrate the Visual Electric team into a new Agent Experiences group. Visual Electric's product will be sunset over the next 90 days while customers can export data and annual subscribers receive prorated refunds.
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September 18, 2025
- Buyer
- XGEN AI
- Target
- R2Decide
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
XGEN AI, an AI-first e‑commerce search and personalization platform, has acquired R2Decide, a retail-focused AI startup specializing in multimodal search and generative engine optimization (GEO). The deal brings R2Decide's agentic commerce models and optimization capabilities into XGEN's product discovery platform to accelerate roadmap delivery and drive higher conversion and revenue for retail clients.
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September 17, 2025
- Buyer
- IonQ
- Target
- Vector Atomic
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
IonQ entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Vector Atomic in an all-stock transaction. The acquisition is intended to accelerate IonQ’s entry into quantum sensing (PNT: positioning, navigation, and timing) and strengthen its full-stack quantum platform using Vector Atomic’s field-validated sensing technologies and patents.
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September 3, 2025
- Buyer
- Nvidia
- Target
- Solver (formerly Laredo Labs)
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Nvidia has acquired Solver, a three-year-old AI coding-agent startup (originally Laredo Labs) that builds agents to manage repositories and carry out end-to-end software development tasks. Solver had raised about $8 million (including from Radical Ventures); terms were not disclosed. The deal expands Nvidia’s AI software stack and developer tooling capabilities to complement its hardware and platform offerings.
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August 28, 2025
- Buyer
- Uniphore
- Target
- Orby AI, Autonom8
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Uniphore announced it has acquired Orby AI and intends to acquire Autonom8 to integrate advanced agent orchestration, Large Action Models, and neuro-symbolic capabilities into its Business AI Cloud. Both acquisitions bring senior AI research and engineering talent from DeepMind and Google and will accelerate Uniphore's ability to automate complex enterprise workflows; transaction terms were not disclosed.
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August 22, 2025
- Buyer
- Serve Robotics
- Target
- Vayu Robotics
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Serve Robotics has acquired Vayu Robotics, a Palo Alto-based developer of urban robot navigation using large-scale AI models. The stock-and-milestone-based deal brings Vayu's AI foundation models and engineering team into Serve to accelerate navigation capabilities, improve safety and simulation-driven training, and expand Serve's autonomous delivery product into new markets and use cases.
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August 14, 2025
- Buyer
- Workday, Inc.
- Target
- Flowise
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Workday has acquired Flowise, a low-code, open-source platform for building AI agents, to add industry-leading agent-builder capabilities to the Workday platform. The acquisition will accelerate AI-agent development and deployment for Workday customers—particularly in HR and finance—by bringing Flowise's visual builder, debugging, evaluation, and governance capabilities into Workday.
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August 7, 2025
- Buyer
- Clari
- Target
- Salesloft
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Clari and Salesloft announced a definitive agreement to merge, creating a Revenue AI company focused on running revenue using an “Autonomous Revenue System.” The combined entity is expected to close in fall 2025 and will serve more than 5,000 organizations globally with a combined revenue dataset and workflow footprint.
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July 16, 2025
- Buyer
- Sorcero, First Trust Capital Partners, LLC
- Target
- Axiom Health
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- California, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Sorcero, an AI-driven life sciences analytics company, has acquired Axiom Health, a real-world data platform focused on the medical technology industry. The Axiom Health platform will be rebranded as Sorcero MedTech to unify medtech and pharmaceutical insights; the transaction was supported by a new investment from First Trust Capital Partners and additional investments from Axiom investors.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What kinds of AI acquisitions are happening in California right now?
Recent California deals cover AI attribution and IP tracking, regulatory intelligence, speech and real-time voice processing, agentic web marketing assets, and enterprise AI implementation and delivery services.
Which California AI acquisition themes show up across multiple transactions?
Common themes include strengthening governance/compliance and IP protection, expanding enterprise workflow integration, and adding infrastructure or edge-to-core capabilities for AI systems.
Are these acquisitions focused on enterprise customers?
Many recent deals explicitly target enterprise or organization-scale deployment—such as helping midsize businesses deploy Claude into core operations (via an Anthropic-backed enterprise joint venture) and supporting enterprise distributors (Augment / Merlin).
Do the deals include infrastructure or data center technology?
Yes. Recent headlines include d-Matrix acquiring GigaIO’s data center business (rack-scale infrastructure and high-performance interconnect technologies) and DIMAAG acquiring Akridata to support physical AI and edge-to-core infrastructure for AI data centers.
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