Prefect Acquires Dagster Labs

Datadog Acquires Adaptive ML

July 4, 2026

AI & Machine Learning

Datadog announced it has acquired Adaptive ML, a frontier AI startup focused on helping enterprises build, own, and deploy specialized agents and models. Adaptive ML’s Adaptive Engine platform enables fine-tuning of open models with reinforcement learning and synthetic data, plus model evaluation using custom AI judges and A/B testing, with production signals fed back into training.

DataRobot Acquires Agnostiq

February 10, 2025

AI & Machine Learning

DataRobot has acquired Agnostiq, the developer of the open-source distributed computing platform Covalent, to accelerate development and deployment of agentic AI applications through advanced compute orchestration and optimization. The acquisition brings Covalent's multi-cloud, multi-infrastructure orchestration capabilities and open-source community into DataRobot to reduce AI infrastructure complexity and costs and enable scalable agentic AI across heterogeneous compute environments.

dbt Labs Acquires SDF Labs

January 14, 2025

Data & Analytics

dbt Labs has acquired SDF Labs, the Seattle-based team behind SDF, a next-generation SQL comprehension and data transformation engine. The acquisition will integrate SDF's multi-dialect, dbt-native SQL comprehension capabilities into dbt to improve developer productivity, data velocity, and data quality.

Calendly Acquires Prelude

September 27, 2022

Staffing & HR

Calendly acquired Prelude, a San Francisco–based recruiting operations and interview-scheduling platform, to deepen its enterprise scheduling capabilities for hiring teams. The deal integrates Prelude’s interview scheduling automation and ATS integrations into Calendly’s platform to improve candidate experience and support recruiting workflows from SMBs to enterprise customers.

PagerDuty to Acquire Catalytic

March 2, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

PagerDuty, Inc. entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Catalytic, the no-code workflow automation platform. The acquisition is intended to expand PagerDuty’s enterprise automation offerings with more flexible, business-user-friendly workflows across functions like Finance, Human Resources, and Supply Chain.

Perforce Acquires 21 Labs

May 17, 2021

Software

Perforce Software, backed by Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners, acquired 21 Labs, an AI-based scriptless mobile testing SaaS provider, to expand its Perfecto intelligent test automation portfolio. The acquisition integrates 21 Labs' framework-agnostic, self-learning mobile test automation into Perforce's Perfecto platform to deliver broader continuous testing capabilities for enterprise customers.