LianLian Global Acquires Minority Stake in ContentBot.ai

WildBrain Acquires Personality AI

August 24, 2026

AI & Machine Learning

WildBrain acquired 100% of the outstanding shares of Personality AI, a kid-safe conversational generative AI company focused on licensed character experiences. The deal includes approximately US$11 million in cash plus WildBrain shares, with additional US$2 million on the first anniversary and up to US$56 million in performance-based consideration tied to revenue targets from 2027–2029.

Scale Shift Ventures Acquires Botdog.co

February 17, 2026

Cloud & SaaS

Scale Shift Ventures has successfully completed the acquisition of San Francisco-based AI sales automation startup Botdog.co in a seven-figure USD transaction. Botdog provides an AI-driven platform for personalized LinkedIn outreach with integrations, analytics, collaboration, and compliance safeguards.

UbiGrowth AI Acquires Silk Labs

February 6, 2026

Software

UbiGrowth AI, an “AI Operating System” for service companies, announced it has acquired Silk Labs, the creator of SILK, an AI-powered product intelligence platform. The acquisition will integrate SILK’s real-time context engine and unified product knowledge into UbiGrowth’s multi-agent OS over the coming months. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Blackstone Growth Majority Investment in NetBrain Technologies

July 26, 2025

Cloud & SaaS

Blackstone Growth has closed a majority investment in NetBrain Technologies at a reported $750 million valuation, acquiring a controlling stake to accelerate the company's global expansion and AI-powered network automation roadmap. As part of the transaction NetBrain appointed Bernadette Nixon as CEO while founder Lingping Gao will move to chair the board.

Lucid Bots Acquires Avianna

July 24, 2024

AI & Machine Learning

Lucid Bots has acquired Avianna, a startup that provides natural-language and autonomy AI (Mission AI, Vision AI, Fleet Management) for robots. The integration will add conversational controls and autonomous operations to Lucid Bots' cleaning robots (Sherpa, Lavo Bot), improving usability, fleet management, and deployment efficiency.

Qlik Acquires CrunchBot and Crunch Data

January 22, 2019

AI & Machine Learning

Qlik has acquired the CrunchBot AI analytics bot and the team from Crunch Data to expand conversational analytics and augmented intelligence within Qlik Sense and collaboration platforms. The purchase brings CrunchBot's natural-language query and NLG capabilities plus Crunch Data's AI/solution development specialists into Qlik's product and customer-success organization to drive analytics adoption and data literacy.