AI & Machine Learning Buyers & Acquisitions in New York

Tracked deals

59

59 tracked deals across 2019-2026.

Buyer mix

Strategic-led

49 strategic · 14 pe

Top trend

Volume peaked in 2025

18 tracked deals announced in 2025.

Primary Insight

What Stands Out

  • OpenAI (acquiring Ona) targets secure, persistent agent workspaces to expand Codex capabilities in customers’ own cloud environments.
  • Anthropic (acquiring Stainless) focuses on strengthening Claude’s agent connectivity via SDK generation and MCP server tooling.
  • Enterprise automation shows up with UiPath (acquiring WorkFusion) for AI agents in financial crime compliance.
  • Finance and operations automation includes BlackLine (acquiring WiseLayer) to embed judgment-capable AI agents into its Verity suite.
  • Deal activity is geographically clustered in New York, United States, with each deal framed around platform integration and operational capability expansion.

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Top Buyers

Illustrative buyers pulled from tracked transactions on this page. This table is capped and intentionally non-exhaustive.

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Buyer # Deals Focus Type
Insight Partners 2 Global software investor providing growth equity and expa... PE
Research Solutions, Inc. 2 Publicly listed provider of cloud-based research workflow... Strategic
Addepar 1 Technology and data platform for wealth, investment and a... Strategic
Alpha Wave Global 1 Global investment firm investing across venture, growth, ... PE
American Express Global Business Travel 1 Global corporate travel management company offering manag... Strategic
Anthropic 1 AI company building the Claude platform and MCP-based age... Strategic
Applied Systems 1 Leading global provider of cloud-based insurance software... Strategic (PE-backed)
Atomico 1 European venture capital firm investing in technology com... PE
Audos.com 1 AI-enabled entrepreneurship platform helping everyday fou... Strategic
Backbase 1 Dutch fintech providing an AI-native banking operating sy... Strategic

Acquisition Volume in AI & Machine Learning in New York by Year

Last 8 years

Acquisition volume by year Annual acquisition counts for the last 8 years for AI & Machine Learning Buyers & Acquisitions in New York. 3 2019 2 2020 6 2021 3 2022 2 2023 13 2024 18 2025 ~23 est. 12 2026
Actual Full-year estimate

Supporting Data

Recent Transactions

  • Buyer
    Premarket
    Target
    Maklare AI
    Type
    Buyout

    Premarket, an agent-only platform for private residential real estate listings, announced the acquisition of Maklare AI, an AI company focused on structuring demand-side data for residential real estate. The deal is intended to create a residential real estate demand intelligence platform by combining live, structured supply-and-demand data across Premarket’s private inventory network.

  • Buyer
    Backbase
    Target
    Kasisto
    Type
    Buyout

    Backbase announced it has acquired Kasisto, a banking-focused agentic AI company. The deal aims to help banks move from isolated AI use cases to governed AI agents that can resolve customer needs end to end across channels and operations. Financial terms were not disclosed.

  • Buyer
    Straive
    Target
    NextGen Invent
    Seller
    NextGen Invent, Novistra Capital (exclusive sell-side advisor)
    Type
    Buyout

    Straive, a data and AI operationalization services provider, announced its acquisition of NextGen Invent, an AI engineering and enterprise services company. The deal is aimed at expanding Straive’s ability to develop, deploy, and scale AI solutions for complex enterprise workflows, leveraging NextGen Invent’s forward-deployed engineering model and vertical expertise in life sciences and manufacturing.

  • Buyer
    OpenAI
    Target
    Ona
    Type
    Buyout

    OpenAI has agreed to acquire Ona, a provider of secure cloud execution and orchestration technology, to enhance the capabilities of its Codex ecosystem. The deal is intended to enable Codex agents to run in customers’ own cloud environments, supporting enterprise requirements like security, governance, and persistent work over hours or days.

  • Buyer
    Anthropic
    Target
    Stainless
    Type
    Buyout

    Anthropic has acquired Stainless, a startup providing SDK generation and MCP server tooling that helps developers and AI agents connect to APIs and external systems. The acquisition is intended to strengthen Claude’s agent connectivity capabilities and improve the developer experience across languages by bringing the Stainless team into Anthropic’s platform organization.

  • Buyer
    Johnson Controls
    Target
    Nantum AI
    Seller
    Prescriptive Holdings LLC
    Type
    Buyout

    Johnson Controls announced it has acquired Nantum AI, a New York-based developer of AI algorithms for improving building energy efficiency. The acquisition is intended to strengthen Johnson Controls' OpenBlue digital ecosystem by adding AI-driven control capabilities to optimize HVAC systems and reduce energy consumption.

  • Buyer
    Blue Star Innovation Partners
    Target
    IntusCare

    IntusCare, an AI-powered technology platform for Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) and complex senior care providers, announced a majority growth investment and partnership with Blue Star Innovation Partners. The investment is intended to accelerate development of IntusCare’s end-to-end ecosystem using AI, automation, and analytics to support scaling compliant technology nationwide.

  • March 26, 2026
    Buyer
    Audos.com
    Target
    No Cap
    Seller
    Alexander Nevedovsky
    Type
    Buyout

    Audos.com, a platform helping everyday entrepreneurs build solo, AI-native businesses, announced it has acquired No Cap. The deal integrates No Cap’s technology and community into Audos.com and supports Audos.com’s first funded cohort of Entrepreneurs-in-Residence building revenue-generating AI businesses.

  • February 6, 2026
    Buyer
    UiPath
    Target
    WorkFusion
    Type
    Buyout

    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.

  • Buyer
    Sauvegarder Investment Management (SIM IP)
    Target
    Garden Intel
    Type
    Buyout

    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.

  • Buyer
    SEEQC, Inc.
    Target
    Allegro Merger Corp.
    Type
    Buyout

    SEEQC entered into a definitive merger agreement with Allegro Merger Corp., with Allegro surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of SEEQC. The transaction includes an approximately $65 million PIPE subscription into Allegro common stock, with Allegro shares canceled and exchanged for SEEQC common stock upon completion.

  • Buyer
    Hurricane Capital
    Target
    Kiyomi AI
    Type
    Buyout

    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.

  • December 18, 2025
    Buyer
    Zendesk
    Target
    Unleash
    Type
    Buyout

    Zendesk has acquired Unleash, an AI-powered enterprise search platform, to strengthen its employee service and knowledge capabilities by adding generative AI search, permission-based retrieval, and deep channel integrations. The acquisition embeds Unleash’s connectors and native AI agents into Zendesk’s platform to accelerate time-to-value for internal support while preserving enterprise-grade security and data permissions.

  • December 17, 2025
    Buyer
    BlackLine, Inc.
    Target
    WiseLayer
    Type
    Buyout

    BlackLine, the cloud-based platform for the Office of the CFO, has acquired New York-based WiseLayer, a maker of AI-powered agents for finance and accounting. The acquisition will embed WiseLayer's judgment-capable AI agents into BlackLine's Verity suite to automate complex accounting workflows such as accruals and payroll; terms were not disclosed.

  • Buyer
    Teamshares, Live Oak Acquisition Corp V
    Target
    Teamshares, Live Oak Acquisition Corp V
    Type
    Buyout

    Teamshares announced plans to become a publicly listed company through a merger with Live Oak Acquisition Corp V, backed by a committed $126 million PIPE financing. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2026, subject to regulatory review, and is designed to scale Teamshares’ tech-enabled acquisition platform for small and mid-sized enterprises.

  • Buyer
    ClickHouse, Inc.
    Target
    LibreChat
    Type
    Buyout

    ClickHouse, Inc. has acquired LibreChat, an open-source AI chat platform, bringing founder Danny Avila and his team into ClickHouse to build an open-source Agentic Data Stack. The deal integrates LibreChat's multi-LLM chat capabilities with ClickHouse's high-performance analytics engine to enable agentic analytics for enterprise customers and community users.

  • Buyer
    OfficeSpace Software
    Target
    Dojo AI
    Type
    Addon

    OfficeSpace Software has acquired Dojo AI, embedding Dojo's patented space-planning and workplace analytics AI into OfficeSpace's workplace management platform. The deal (OfficeSpace is backed by Vista Equity Partners and Resurgens Technology Partners) positions OfficeSpace as an AI operating system for the built environment, accelerating planning cycles, automating planner workloads, and improving occupancy and portfolio optimization.

  • Buyer
    Insight Partners, Alpha Wave Global
    Target
    Tavily

    Tavily, an AI search layer for agents, raised $25 million in a Series A round led by Insight Partners and Alpha Wave Global. The funding will be used to double headcount, expand go-to-market efforts, and further develop Tavily's real-time web search and extraction infrastructure for enterprise AI agents.

  • Buyer
    Datasite
    Target
    Blueflame AI
    Type
    Buyout

    Datasite, the PE-backed global SaaS provider of AI-powered M&A workflow solutions, has acquired Blueflame AI, an agentic AI platform for investment and financial services. Blueflame will join Datasite's Intelligence Unit and continue to be led by co-founder Raj Bakhru, with terms not disclosed and ongoing investment supported by Datasite and its controlling shareholder CapVest Partners.

  • Buyer
    R/GA
    Target
    Addition
    Type
    Buyout

    R/GA has acquired Addition, an AI system design and development studio founded in 2021, to bolster its AI-enabled creative capabilities. The deal — R/GA's first acquisition since becoming an independent, privately held company (in partnership with Truelink Capital) — is intended to expand the agency's AI talent, products, and services for enterprise clients.

  • Buyer
    Torch
    Target
    Praxis Labs
    Type
    Buyout

    Torch, a contextual coaching platform, has acquired Praxis Labs, an AI learning platform that provides practice simulations, AI coaching, and skills assessments. The acquisition integrates Praxis Labs' AI-driven practice and measurement capabilities into Torch's coaching and organizational insights to better link leadership development to business outcomes.

  • Buyer
    Insight Partners, Y Combinator, BoxGroup, Flex Capital
    Target
    Heron

    Heron, an AI company automating document-heavy workflows for lenders, equipment finance providers and insurers, raised $16 million in a Series A led by Insight Partners with participation from Y Combinator, BoxGroup and Flex Capital. The funding will be used to scale Heron’s engineering and go-to-market teams and expand its AI workflow automation into additional industry verticals and geographies (New York and London).

  • Buyer
    Synapse ITS, Vance Street Capital
    Target
    Oko
    Type
    Addon

    Synapse ITS has acquired Oko, an AI-driven mobile navigation app for blind and visually impaired pedestrians, and will reinstate it as a free service. The acquisition strengthens Synapse ITS’s accessibility offerings—complementing Polara’s Accessible Pedestrian Signals (APS) and leveraging Oko’s computer-vision and location-based capabilities to improve intersection safety and navigation.

  • Buyer
    Hebbia
    Target
    FlashDocs
    Type
    Buyout

    Hebbia has acquired FlashDocs, a generative AI slide-deck generation startup, to expand its platform from information retrieval and agentic workflows into automated content and artifact generation. The FlashDocs team will join Hebbia to lead API business and artifact generation, enabling rapid creation of branded slide decks and other deliverables for finance, consulting, and enterprise customers.

  • Buyer
    airfairness
    Target
    FlightorFight.ai
    Type
    Buyout

    Toronto-based travel‑tech startup airfairness has acquired New York-based travel AI startup FlightorFight.ai and launched the Flight Navigator, an AI-powered tool that assesses passengers' eligibility for flight compensation in under two minutes. The deal accelerates airfairness' capabilities in aviation data, real-time analytics, and automated claims determination as it rolls out an end-to-end passenger rights platform.

  • June 2, 2025
    Buyer
    IBM
    Target
    Seek AI
    Type
    Buyout

    IBM has acquired Seek AI, a New York–based startup that provides a natural-language AI platform for querying and analyzing enterprise data, for an undisclosed sum. Seek AI will join IBM’s new Watsonx AI Labs in New York City and relocate its headquarters to One Madison, with the technology integrated into IBM’s enterprise AI offerings to accelerate its AI capabilities.

  • May 23, 2025
    Buyer
    Addepar
    Target
    Arcus
    Type
    Buyout

    Addepar has acquired Arcus, an enterprise AI workflows specialist, to accelerate embedding advanced AI/ML capabilities across its wealth and investment platform. The deal supports Addepar's technology roadmap as it continues investing over $100 million annually in R&D to deliver intelligent data management, anomaly detection, streamlined reconciliation and predictive insights.

  • Buyer
    Wix
    Target
    Hour One
    Type
    Buyout

    Wix has acquired Hour One, a generative AI media-creation startup, to accelerate product innovation and embed advanced generative-AI video and rendering capabilities into its platform. Founders Oren Aharon, Lior Hakim and Arnon Kahani and their team will join Wix, giving it access to Hour One's cloud-based infrastructure for scalable, personalized video and interactive content.

  • Buyer
    Humach
    Target
    Markets EQ
    Type
    Buyout

    Humach, an AI customer experience company based in Frisco, Texas, has acquired Albany, New York–based Markets EQ, a voice-analytics and AI firm focused on financial communications and alternative data. Markets EQ will operate as an independent, wholly owned subsidiary and its founders will take executive roles at Humach to integrate Markets EQ’s voice‑EQ capabilities into Humach’s mAI Pilot platform to enhance enterprise customer experience and competitive intelligence offerings.

  • Buyer
    Paradox
    Target
    Eqtble
    Type
    Buyout

    Paradox, the conversational AI recruiting platform, has acquired people analytics startup Eqtble. The Eqtble team will join Paradox as the companies integrate Eqtble's people-data and analytics capabilities into Paradox's conversational AI hiring platform to deliver combined people intelligence and conversational dashboards for HR and talent teams.

  • Buyer
    Coeptis Therapeutics Holdings, Inc.
    Target
    NexGenAI Affiliates Network (developed by NexGenAI Solutions Group, Inc.)
    Seller
    NexGenAI Solutions Group, Inc., NexGenAI Holding Group Inc.
    Type
    Buyout

    Coeptis Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: COEP) has completed the acquisition of the NexGenAI Affiliates Network platform from NexGenAI and launched a new division, Coeptis Technologies, to commercialize AI-driven marketing and RPA capabilities. The deal brings AI-powered marketing software and robotic process automation into Coeptis’ offerings to diversify the biopharma company’s growth avenues and support marketing and operations in highly regulated end markets such as biotech, pharma, and MLM.

  • Buyer
    Bluecore
    Target
    alby
    Type
    Buyout

    Bluecore has acquired alby, an AI shopping assistant that delivers conversational Q&A and product-specific guidance for ecommerce retailers. The acquisition will integrate alby's conversational and generative AI capabilities into Bluecore's retail marketing platform to boost engagement, conversions, and post-sale satisfaction.

  • Buyer
    Thomson Reuters Corporation
    Target
    Materia
    Type
    Buyout

    Thomson Reuters has acquired Materia, a U.S.-based startup that builds an agentic generative AI assistant for tax, audit and accounting workflows. The acquisition is intended to accelerate Thomson Reuters' AI roadmap and integrate Materia's capabilities across its tax, audit and accounting product portfolio to improve efficiency and advisory services for accounting firms.

  • Buyer
    DataSnipper
    Target
    UpLink
    Type
    Buyout

    DataSnipper has acquired AI-native document-request portal UpLink and simultaneously launched DocuMine, a new AI-powered document validator to expand its audit automation product suite. The move builds on DataSnipper’s recent $100 million Series B and accelerates the company’s effort to create a comprehensive AI-driven audit ecosystem.

  • Buyer
    Typeface
    Target
    Treat, Narrato
    Type
    Buyout

    Generative AI startup Typeface has acquired Treat, a NYC-based AI company that creates personalized product images, and Narrato, an AI content-creation and workflow platform originally launched in Australia. The acquisitions are intended to expand Typeface’s multimodal (visual and textual) capabilities and accelerate its vision of end-to-end content lifecycle transformation for enterprise customers.

  • Buyer
    SoundHound AI, Inc.
    Target
    Amelia
    Type
    Buyout

    SoundHound AI has acquired enterprise conversational AI provider Amelia for $80 million in cash and equity, including assumption of debt and potential earnouts. The deal expands SoundHound's conversational and customer-service AI capabilities and accelerates vertical expansion into regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, retail), with combined revenue expected to exceed $150M in 2025.

  • Buyer
    Applied Systems
    Target
    Planck
    Type
    Buyout

    Applied Systems has acquired Planck, an AI-based data platform for commercial insurance, to accelerate and expand AI capabilities across Applied's global insurance software portfolio. The acquisition aims to integrate Planck's real-time data and AI-driven underwriting insights into Applied's products to improve underwriting, renewals, servicing and advisory workflows for carriers and agencies.

  • Buyer
    Bluestone Equity Partners
    Target
    Qloo

    Bluestone Equity Partners has made a $20 million growth investment in Qloo, an AI platform that models consumer tastes and preferences. Qloo will use the capital to expand into new markets, launch a self-service insights platform, grow the team, and pursue strategic data and technology acquisitions.

  • Buyer
    Significo
    Target
    Bunch
    Type
    Buyout

    Significo, an Austin-based custom software development company focused on health tech, has acquired Bunch, an AI leadership coach app. The acquisition brings Bunch's AI, coaching, data science and psychology expertise into Significo to expand its people-first capabilities for workplace well-being and digital health experiences.

  • Buyer
    Infinite Reality
    Target
    Action Face, Inc.
    Type
    Buyout

    Infinite Reality (iR) has acquired Action Face, Inc., an AI-powered 3-D avatar creation platform, in an all-stock transaction. iR will integrate Action Face’s photorealistic avatar, AR/Action Clip and 3D-printing capabilities to deepen personalization across its immersive media and ecommerce offerings in sports, entertainment and retail.

  • Buyer
    Markets EQ
    Target
    Helios Life Enterprises
    Type
    Buyout

    Markets EQ, a generative AI platform for corporate communications, has acquired Helios Life Enterprises, a voice-based tonal analysis firm that operates the Quantum audio analytics platform. The deal brings Helios' large proprietary audio dataset and analytics capabilities into Markets EQ to expand product functionality and accelerate market growth.

  • Buyer
    Nordstjernan Growth, Flat Capital AB, Recurring Capital Partners, INX International Ink Co., Atomico, EQT Ventures
    Target
    Oden Technologies

    Nordstjernan Growth led a $28.5 million Series B investment in Oden Technologies, a data and AI software provider for the manufacturing industry. New investors Flat Capital, Recurring Capital Partners and Oden customer INX International joined the round, with existing backers including Atomico and EQT Ventures also participating to support product development, Process AI expansion and customer growth in the U.S. market.

  • Buyer
    Wynshop
    Target
    Halla
    Type
    Buyout

    Wynshop, a digital commerce and fulfillment platform for grocers and local retailers, has acquired Halla, an AI company specializing in personalization for grocery e-commerce. The acquisition integrates Halla's machine‑learning personalization engine into Wynshop's product suite and brings Halla's founders onto the Wynshop team to accelerate AI capabilities and customer value.

  • Buyer
    Research Solutions, Inc.
    Target
    scite
    Type
    Buyout

    Research Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSSS) has acquired scite, a Brooklyn-based AI-powered research discovery platform known for its Smart Citations. The deal adds scite's ~21,000 active B2C subscribers and $3.6M of annualized subscription value to Research Solutions' product suite, enabling cross-sell opportunities across academic, corporate and government research customers.

  • Buyer
    Research Solutions, Inc.
    Target
    ResoluteAI
    Type
    Buyout

    Research Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSSS) has acquired ResoluteAI, an AI- and NLP-powered enterprise search and knowledge-management platform. The deal will integrate ResoluteAI's taxonomy, ontology and knowledge-graph capabilities into Research Solutions' Article Galaxy and Foundation platforms to expand enterprise search, knowledge management, and life-sciences research workflows.

  • Buyer
    Reddit
    Target
    Spell
    Type
    Buyout

    Reddit has acquired Spell, a SaaS-based machine-learning platform, to strengthen its ML and AI capabilities. The Spell team — including founder & CEO Serkan Piantino — will join Reddit to support Product, Safety, and Ads initiatives and accelerate integration of ML across the company.

  • Buyer
    Fulcrum Equity Partners
    Target
    Supply Wisdom

    Fulcrum Equity Partners, an Atlanta-based growth equity firm, has made a growth investment in Supply Wisdom to support the company's go-to-market expansion, scale its management team, pursue tuck-in acquisitions, and increase customer success. Supply Wisdom is a New York–headquartered AI/ML-based continuous third-party and supply chain risk intelligence platform serving enterprise customers across financial services, insurance, and healthcare.

  • Buyer
    TPG (TPG Capital Asia)
    Target
    Fractal
    Seller
    Funds advised by Apax (Apax Partners)

    TPG, through its Asia-focused private equity platform, is investing US$360 million in Fractal in a transaction that combines a primary capital injection and a secondary share purchase from funds advised by Apax. Apax will remain a major shareholder following the deal; the investment will support Fractal's global scaling of its AI and advanced analytics offerings.

  • November 15, 2021
    Buyer
    EverWash
    Target
    omniX Labs
    Type
    Buyout

    EverWash, a US car wash membership and subscription management platform, has acquired omniX Labs, a real-time vehicle analytics and machine learning SaaS provider. The deal will integrate omniX Labs' computer vision and ML capabilities into EverWash's platform to deliver vehicle-centric insights that improve customer personalization and increase revenue for car wash operator partners.

  • October 19, 2021
    Buyer
    Instacart
    Target
    Caper AI
    Type
    Buyout

    Instacart acquired Caper AI, an AI-powered smart cart and automated checkout technology provider, to expand its retailer enablement platform and unify online and in-store shopping experiences. The acquisition brings Caper's hardware, computer-vision capabilities and team into Instacart to accelerate in-store solutions for grocery and convenience retailers.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which buyers show up repeatedly in AI & machine learning acquisitions in New York?

Recurring names listed for this New York page include Research Solutions, Inc., Insight Partners, Recurring Capital Partners, Atomico, EQT Ventures, INX International Ink Co., Poshmark, Inc., and Addepar.

What kinds of targets are being acquired most often?

Targets include technology providers for agent orchestration and secure execution (e.g., Ona), developer tooling that improves API/agent connectivity (e.g., Stainless), and AI systems for enterprise use cases such as building energy optimization (Nantum AI), finance/accounting automation (WiseLayer), and financial crime compliance (WorkFusion).

Are these deals limited to pure software, or do they include platform integrations?

The acquisitions described emphasize integration into existing platforms. Examples include OpenAI expanding Codex capabilities, Anthropic improving Claude connectivity, UiPath strengthening its agentic automation for banking and financial services, and BlackLine embedding AI agents into its Verity suite.

Do the deals on this page all close with undisclosed terms?

Not always. Some entries disclose deal structure details (for example, UiPath’s acquisition notes the closure timing and that terms were not disclosed; SEEQC’s merger describes a PIPE subscription and share exchange mechanics). Several others explicitly state that financial terms were not disclosed.

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