Funding, Mergers & Acquisitions

Financial movements in the AI ecosystem, including venture capital investments, strategic acquisitions, IPO's and funding rounds for AI companies.

Aug 10, 2026

FM Acquires FortressFire for Wildfire Risk Modeling

FM has acquired FortressFire, a wildfire intelligence provider that uses machine learning and physics based modeling. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Aug 10, 2026

OpenAI Acquires Presentation Startup NextSlide

OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a presentation startup whose team is now working on ChatGPT. Terms were not disclosed.

Aug 10, 2026

VibeIQ Raises $22.5 Million for AI Product Decision Platform

VibeIQ raised $22.5 million in growth financing led by Volition Capital, with Venture Guides participating. The company plans to use the funding for product work, AI features, integrations, hiring, and expansion across consumer product categories.

Aug 7, 2026

Netlist and Samsung Sign AI Memory Alliance

Netlist and Samsung signed five year agreements covering patent licensing, memory supply, and technology cooperation. Samsung will access Netlist patents for server DIMM and High Bandwidth Memory technologies.

Aug 7, 2026

SiteVue AI Raises $7.5 Million for AI Vision Cameras

SiteVue AI raised $7.5 million in seed funding to support its AI camera systems for manufacturing, food processing, and construction.

Aug 6, 2026

Avatar Robotics Raises $6.5 Million for Industrial Humanoid Robots

Avatar Robotics raised a $6.5 million seed round led by AlleyCorp to expand deployments of humanoid robots for warehouse and manufacturing work.

Aug 6, 2026

Acrab Raises US$130 Million for Agentic AI Compute Platform

Acrab raised US$130 million in Series B funding to scale its agentic AI compute platform and support commercialization.

Aug 6, 2026

ClaimsBridge Gets Eir Partners Investment and Buys DialysisPPO

ClaimsBridge received a strategic investment from Eir Partners and acquired DialysisPPO, adding dialysis cost containment to its claims technology platform.

Aug 6, 2026

Body Vision Medical Raises New Funding for Lung Imaging Expansion

Body Vision Medical has closed a new funding round led by Business Asia Consultants and Sprim Global Investments. The company said the capital will support global expansion of its AI imaging technology for early stage lung disease procedures.

Aug 5, 2026

Delightree Raises $25 Million for AI Operations Platform

Delightree has raised $25 million to expand its AI operations platform for franchise and multi unit brands. The company says its software is now used across more than 6,000 locations.

Aug 5, 2026

Wellinks Raises $10 Million for Predictive Cardiopulmonary Care

Wellinks closed the first $10 million tranche of its Series B round with backing from UMass Memorial Health and existing investors. The company plans to use the funding to expand its predictive cardiopulmonary care model and remote patient monitoring system.

Aug 5, 2026

Convex Raises $57M Series B for Backend Platform

Convex raised a $57 million Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $110.5 million. The company plans to use the funding for product development, agentic development tooling, and hiring in San Francisco.

Aug 3, 2026

RWS Agrees to Acquire Acolad Parent Acogroup

RWS has agreed to acquire Acogroup, the parent company of Acolad, in a deal expected to close by 31 March 2027 pending consultation and regulatory approvals.

Aug 3, 2026

Bidbus Raises $15 Million for Dealer Auction Marketplace

Bidbus raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Ibex Investors to expand its live dealer auction marketplace and invest in AI powered marketplace tools.

Aug 3, 2026

d-Matrix Acquires Wallaroo.ai for AI Inference Deployment Software

d-Matrix has acquired Wallaroo.ai, adding AI inference deployment and orchestration software to its data center inference stack.

Aug 3, 2026

Mariana Minerals Raises $310 Million to Build Mines and Refineries Run With AI

Mariana Minerals raised $310 million in Series B funding led by Khosla Ventures to expand mines and refineries run with its MarianaOS AI and machine learning platform.

Aug 3, 2026

Cerberus and Yondr Plan 72 MW Data Center in Virginia

Cerberus Capital Management and Yondr Group have acquired a 40 acre site in Manassas, Virginia, for a planned 72 MW data center campus expected to start operations in 2029.

Aug 3, 2026

Actualyze AI Emerges From Stealth With $7 Million Seed Round

Actualyze AI has emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding for its enterprise platform that governs, secures, operates, and optimizes AI requests.

Aug 3, 2026

HCLTech Completes Purchase of HPE Telco Solutions Business

HCLTech completed its purchase of Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Telco Solutions business, adding telecom software, intellectual property, and nearly 1,400 specialists across 39 countries.

Jul 31, 2026

Eileen Raises Pre Seed Round and Reports Q2 Revenue Growth

Eileen closed an oversubscribed pre seed funding round led by Top Shelf Ventures and reported 105% revenue growth in Q2. The retail intelligence platform uses shopper photos and computer vision to show CPG brands shelf inventory, pricing, placement, and compliance data.

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