Relativity Acquires Heretik

Lightcast Acquires Rhetorik to Expand Global People and Company Intelligence

July 8, 2025

Data & Analytics

Lightcast has acquired UK-based Rhetorik to expand its people, company, and labor market intelligence by integrating Rhetorik’s privacy-first contact and company data. The acquisition strengthens Lightcast’s data capabilities across recruiting, sales, marketing, education, and government, with Rhetorik CEO Meredith Amdur joining Lightcast as a Strategic Advisor.

Relativity Acquires Text IQ

May 27, 2021

Software

Relativity, the legal and compliance software company, has acquired Text IQ, an AI company that applies machine learning and NLP to identify sensitive and privileged data for e-discovery, compliance and privacy workflows. The deal will integrate Text IQ's AI capabilities into RelativityOne and Relativity Trace to accelerate automation and improve detection and review efficiency for law firms, enterprises and government customers.

Thomson Reuters Acquires Noetica

February 12, 2026

AI & Machine Learning

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.

Icertis Acquires Dioptra

November 19, 2025

Software

Icertis, the Bellevue-based leader in AI-powered contract intelligence, has acquired Dioptra to deepen its AI capabilities—integrating Dioptra’s surgical redlining and automated playbook technology into the Icertis Contract Intelligence platform (Vera). The Dioptra team will join Icertis’ product and engineering organization to accelerate AI-first contract automation and pre-signature agent capabilities for enterprise legal and procurement teams.

Litera Acquires Kira Systems

August 10, 2021

AI & Machine Learning

Litera has agreed to acquire Kira Systems, a Toronto-based leader in machine learning contract analysis, to strengthen its Transaction Management platform and expand due diligence workflows. As part of the deal, Kira majority investor Insight Partners will become a minority investor in Litera while Hg remains Litera's majority investor; Kira's AI research team will spin out as a new company, Zuva.

Shield AI Acquires Heron Systems

July 22, 2021

Aerospace & Defense

Shield AI has acquired Heron Systems, a developer of advanced AI pilots that notably defeated an experienced Air Force F-16 pilot in DARPA trials. The deal brings Heron's multi-agent deep reinforcement learning capabilities into Shield AI to accelerate operational deployment of AI-pilots on legacy and next-generation military aircraft and unmanned systems.