Recent AI & Machine Learning Acquisitions

Acquisition Volume in AI & Machine Learning by Year

Last 5 years

Acquisition volume by year Annual acquisition counts for the last 5 years for Recent AI & Machine Learning Acquisitions. 72 2022 68 2023 117 2024 181 2025 ~418 est. 119 2026
Actual Full-year estimate

This page highlights recent M&A and strategic investments in the AI & Machine Learning sector, including examples of strategic product integrations, infrastructure plays, and talent/IP acquisitions. Transactions range from enterprise product integrations to platform and country‑entry deals.

Buyers include strategic technology companies, infrastructure investors, and private‑equity/venture investors. Recent examples show acquirers integrating capabilities into existing products (ADT buying Origin AI), expanding model and agent capabilities (Anthropic acquiring Vercept, Augmented Intelligence (AUI) acquiring Quack AI), and building large‑scale infrastructure platforms (Radiant backed by Brookfield Asset Management acquiring Ori). The activity spans the United States, Israel, the United Kingdom, and parts of Europe.

What Stands Out

  • Strategic technology buyers are prominent: examples include ADT (security and smart‑home integration) and Anthropic (product capability expansion).
  • Infrastructure and scale plays appear alongside product M&A: Brookfield‑backed Radiant merged with Ori to create a capital‑backed AI infrastructure platform.
  • Capability themes include agentic/assistant tech, AI‑enabled automation for sales and legal workflows, GovCon proposal automation, and applied AI services (examples: Quack AI, Upcraft, eDiscovery AI, Rogue AI).
  • Geographic spread is primarily U.S. states (California, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Maryland, Washington, Georgia, Illinois, District of Columbia) with notable deals in Israel, the UK, and Spain (e.g., AUI in Tel Aviv; Doctrine acquiring Maite.ai in Catalonia).
  • Buyer
    Paylocity
    Target
    Grayscale Labs
    Type
    Buyout

    Paylocity announced it has acquired Grayscale Labs to strengthen its AI-powered recruiting capabilities, especially for high-volume hiring organizations. The acquisition will integrate Grayscale’s recruiting automation technology into Paylocity’s human capital management platform to help employers engage candidates earlier and move faster through recruiting workflows.

  • Buyer
    Windward
    Target
    Prominent Edge
    Type
    Addon

    Windward, a maritime AI platform company, announced the acquisition of Prominent Edge, a U.S. defense technology company delivering geospatial, maritime, and mission software solutions to the U.S. Government. The deal is intended to deepen Windward’s U.S. defense and national security capabilities by adding mission-grade software delivery expertise and geospatial capability.

  • Buyer
    Bryson DeChambeau-led group of investors
    Target
    Sportsbox AI
    Type
    Buyout

    A group of investors led by professional golfer Bryson DeChambeau has acquired Sportsbox AI, which provides kinematic AI and 3D motion capture technology for sports training. Following the acquisition, Sportsbox AI plans to launch Sportsbox AI Motion Intelligence (SAMI), an agentic AI coaching assistant integrated into the Sportsbox 3DGolf app using Google Cloud’s Gemini models.

  • Buyer
    Accenture
    Target
    Keepler Data Tech
    Seller
    DTCP
    Location
    Spain
    Type
    Buyout

    Accenture acquired Keepler Data Tech, a Spain-based cloud-native AI and data company, to expand its end-to-end AI and data capabilities in Spain and across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Keepler’s team will join Accenture to help clients build cloud-native data foundations and deploy advanced analytics, generative AI, and agentic AI for core business processes.

  • Buyer
    Makila AI
    Target
    Bonanza
    Location
    France
    Type
    Buyout

    Makila AI, a data and AI platform focused on workforce performance and decision support, announced the acquisition of Bonanza, a HR marketing and employer branding software provider. The deal is intended to combine Bonanza’s recruitment marketing capabilities with Makila AI’s predictive analytics and simulation to create an integrated, measurable AI-augmented talent strategy offering.

  • Buyer
    Sony Interactive Entertainment
    Target
    Cinemersive Labs
    Location
    United Kingdom
    Type
    Buyout

    Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation) entered into an agreement to acquire Cinemersive Labs, a UK-based machine learning and computer vision company. The deal is intended to strengthen Sony’s Visual Computing capabilities for more advanced, immersive gaming visuals and rendering efficiency using AI.

  • Buyer
    DigitalOcean, LLC
    Target
    Katanemo Labs, Inc.
    Location
    United States
    Type
    Buyout

    DigitalOcean acquired Katanemo Labs, a models and research company focused on infrastructure for agentic AI. The deal brings Katanemo’s AI-native data plane (Plano), small action models, and research on agentic observability into DigitalOcean’s Agentic Inference Cloud.

  • Buyer
    Trimble
    Target
    Document Crunch
    Location
    United States
    Type
    Buyout

    Trimble has signed an agreement to acquire Document Crunch, an AI-powered document analysis and risk management provider for the construction industry. The deal is expected to enhance Trimble’s Construction One ecosystem by integrating Document Crunch’s “contractual rule set” to automate compliance tracking and help project teams identify and mitigate risks such as payment disputes and contract inconsistencies.

  • Buyer
    SpendHQ
    Target
    Sligo AI (Sligo Software, Inc.)
    Type
    Buyout

    SpendHQ announced it has acquired Sligo AI (Sligo Software, Inc.), an Agentic Enterprise Procurement (AEP) infrastructure provider. The deal combines SpendHQ’s structured spend data foundation with Sligo AI’s deployment infrastructure to let enterprises move from procurement AI insights to automated execution across end-to-end workflows.

  • Buyer
    d-Matrix
    Target
    GigaIO's data center business, GigaIO, Inc.
    Seller
    GigaIO, Inc.
    Type
    Buyout

    d-Matrix announced it has acquired GigaIO's data center business, including core rack-scale infrastructure and high-performance interconnect technologies. GigaIO will continue as an independent entity focused on edge computing.

  • Buyer
    Quickbase
    Target
    Solvice
    Location
    Belgium
    Type
    Buyout

    Quickbase, an AI operations platform, announced it has acquired Solvice, a provider of APIs for route optimization and workforce scheduling. The deal is intended to integrate Solvice’s OnRoute and OnShift capabilities into Quickbase’s core products to strengthen decision intelligence for resource management. Initial integration is planned for the second half of 2026, while Solvice’s APIs will remain available in the meantime.

  • Buyer
    Teamworks
    Target
    Pro Football Focus (PFF) - enterprise (B2B) business
    Type
    Buyout

    Teamworks acquired the enterprise (B2B) business of Pro Football Focus (PFF), including its proprietary game event data and analytics platform used by NFL teams and collegiate football programs. The deal is intended to expand Teamworks’ vertically integrated, AI-powered football operating system by unifying video, player tracking, and analytics. PFF’s consumer business remains independent, while Cris Collinsworth and PFF’s minority investors continue as Teamworks shareholders.

  • Buyer
    accesso Technology Group
    Target
    Dexibit Limited
    Location
    United States
    Type
    Buyout

    accesso Technology Group has acquired Dexibit Limited to launch accesso Intelligence, a cross-platform AI and analytics platform for visitor attractions. The solution connects guest and operator data across ticketing, eCommerce, food and retail, operations, and third-party systems via a conversational AI interface to enable faster, actionable decision-making.

  • Buyer
    Lemnis
    Target
    Mainstay
    Location
    United States
    Type
    Buyout

    Lemnis, a public charity focused on expanding educational opportunity, announced it has acquired Mainstay, a developer of AI-enabled student support technologies used by more than 200 colleges and universities. Following the acquisition, Mainstay will transition from a public benefit corporation into a nonprofit division within Lemnis to support its long-term mission in higher education.

  • Buyer
    KBR
    Target
    Applied Computing
    Location
    United Kingdom

    KBR announced a strategic investment in Applied Computing, an AI foundation model developer focused on energy and industrial markets. Alongside the investment (including a board position), the parties entered a multi-year joint development agreement to co-create exclusive AI products for the energy sector by integrating Applied Computing’s Orbital model with KBR’s licensed process technologies and domain expertise.

  • Buyer
    Crane Harbor Acquisition Corp.
    Target
    Xanadu Quantum Technologies Limited
    Location
    Canada
    Type
    Buyout

    Xanadu Quantum Technologies Limited became a publicly listed company on Nasdaq and the Toronto Stock Exchange after completing its previously announced business combination with Crane Harbor Acquisition Corp. The transaction provided Xanadu with approximately $302 million in gross proceeds and includes discussions for up to C$390 million in potential government funding to support technology development, manufacturing scale-up, and commercialization of its photonic quantum computing platform.

  • Buyer
    FiEE, Inc.
    Target
    YinLian Culture, Maltose Culture
    Location
    China
    Type
    Buyout

    FiEE, Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire a 51% equity stake in YinLian Culture for an aggregate purchase price of $51,000. FiEE is also providing a convertible loan of approximately $2.9 million, which would increase its equity interest to 60% upon conversion at FiEE’s option, via a variable interest entity (VIE) structure that would give FiEE effective control and the economic benefits of Maltose Culture.

  • Buyer
    OVHcloud
    Target
    Dragon LLM
    Location
    France
    Type
    Buyout

    OVHcloud has signed a binding agreement to acquire Dragon LLM, a French developer of specialized generative AI models for regulated industries. The deal is intended to expand OVHcloud’s generative AI capabilities and support sovereign AI deployments both in the cloud and on-premises, alongside launching an OVHcloud AI lab focused on sovereign large language models.

  • Buyer
    Amazon
    Target
    Fauna Robotics
    Location
    United States
    Type
    Buyout

    Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, a startup building humanoid robots intended for everyday environments. The deal brings Fauna’s team (about 50 employees) into Amazon and keeps the Fauna Robotics name as Amazon renews its push into consumer-facing robotics beyond warehouses.

  • Buyer
    Etna Capital
    Target
    CodeRoad, Inc.
    Seller
    An affiliate of Peak Rock Capital
    Type
    Buyout

    Etna Capital, through an affiliate, has completed the acquisition of CodeRoad, Inc., an AI-first digital engineering and software development services provider. CodeRoad leverages its proprietary Velocity-as-a-Service (VaaS) platform and nearshore engineering model to deliver agentic AI solutions and support enterprise customers across multiple industries.

  • Buyer
    Innovative Systems
    Target
    Actifai
    Location
    United States
    Type
    Buyout

    Innovative Systems, a broadband billing and subscriber management platform provider, announced it has acquired Actifai, an AI platform built for broadband service providers. The companies plan to embed Actifai’s platform-agnostic AI engine into Innovative Systems’ eLation subscriber-lifecycle workflows to accelerate AI-driven decisioning and automation while continuing to operate independently.

  • Buyer
    PetaSight Inc.
    Target
    Babbage Insight Two Inc.
    Type
    Buyout

    PetaSight, an AI-led operating system for life sciences primary market research (PMR), completed the acquisition of Babbage Insight Two. The deal integrates Babbage’s patent-pending algorithms for signal validation and business insight generation into PetaSight’s governed workflow platform to deliver audit-ready, defensible AI-driven research intelligence.

  • Buyer
    Signal AI
    Target
    Memo
    Type
    Buyout

    Signal AI, an AI-driven reputation and risk intelligence company, announced its acquisition of Memo, a platform that provides article-level readership data sourced directly from publishers. The deal is intended to replace “vanity metrics” like reach and impressions with verified readership, enabling more accurate impact-based crisis intelligence and C-suite-ready PR measurement.

  • 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.

  • Buyer
    Fullbay
    Target
    Pitstop
    Seller
    Unknown
    Type
    Buyout

    Fullbay, a Phoenix-based software platform for heavy-duty repair shops, announced it has acquired Pitstop, an AI-powered predictive maintenance and fleet intelligence platform. The deal will integrate Pitstop’s technology into Fullbay to deliver real-time diagnostics, fault-code management, predictive alerts, and automated service request generation for fleets.

  • Buyer
    ZeroToOne.AI
    Target
    GroundTruth
    Seller
    Mike Perlis (Former GroundTruth Chairman)
    Location
    United States
    Type
    Buyout

    ZeroToOne.AI, an enterprise predictive behavioral intelligence platform, announced that it has acquired GroundTruth, a scaled real-world consumer behavior data and signals platform. The combined offering aims to deploy a large-scale predictive intelligence platform that anticipates real-world consumer actions and decision outcomes, leveraging ZeroToOne’s Large Behavioral Model and GroundTruth’s omnichannel signal network and customer base.

  • March 24, 2026
    Buyer
    Miro
    Target
    Reforge
    Location
    United States
    Type
    Buyout

    Miro, the AI innovation workspace for teams, announced it has acquired Reforge, an AI platform for product teams (subject to customary closing conditions). The deal combines Miro’s collaborative AI workflows and canvas with Reforge’s AI-native product development tools and learning platform.

  • Buyer
    SoftBank Robotics America
    Target
    Green Clean Commercial
    Type
    Buyout

    SoftBank Robotics America has acquired Green Clean Commercial to scale “physical AI” and accelerate the transformation of commercial facility services. The combined offering will be organized under SoftBank Robotics America’s Smart Building X (SBX) platform, with Green Clean Commercial continuing as the operational service engine inside SBX.

  • Buyer
    Fasoo, Konsilix
    Target
    Fasoo, Konsilix
    Type
    Buyout

    Fasoo and Konsilix have entered into an agreement in principle to combine their businesses and form Symbologic, a new enterprise AI company. The companies expect to finalize definitive agreements and complete the transaction by the end of April, subject to customary closing conditions.

  • March 21, 2026
    Buyer
    Amazon
    Target
    Rivr
    Location
    Switzerland
    Type
    Buyout

    Amazon has acquired Rivr, a Zurich-based autonomous robotics startup known for a stair-climbing delivery robot. The deal supports Amazon’s push toward “General Physical AI” with a focus on doorstep delivery, though terms were not disclosed.

  • Buyer
    C5i
    Target
    Datavid
    Location
    United Kingdom
    Type
    Buyout

    C5i, an AI and analytics company, signed an agreement to fully acquire Datavid, a UK-based data and AI firm specializing in graph data engineering and knowledge graph design. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of March 2026 and is intended to strengthen C5i’s enterprise-grade generative and agentic AI delivery, including nearshore capabilities in the UK and Romania.

  • Buyer
    Databricks
    Target
    Quotient AI
    Location
    United States
    Type
    Buyout

    Databricks announced it has acquired Quotient AI, a startup focused on evaluation and reinforcement learning technologies for AI agents. Quotient analyzes full production agent traces to detect issues and turn them into structured datasets and reward signals, which Databricks plans to integrate across its platform to enable continuous evaluation and learning.

  • Buyer
    Ramen
    Target
    Coplay
    Type
    Buyout

    Ramen, an AI platform for game development, announced it has acquired Coplay, which builds AI tools for Unity-based game creation. The deal will integrate Coplay’s technology into Ramen’s Aura assistant to enable cross-engine workflows across both Unity and Unreal, targeting coverage of roughly 80% of game development platforms. Financial terms were not disclosed.

  • Buyer
    Webflow
    Target
    Vidoso.ai
    Type
    Buyout

    Webflow announced it has acquired Vidoso.ai, a Bay Area-based multi-modal AI asset generation startup. Webflow said the deal will strengthen its agentic web marketing platform by integrating Vidoso’s AI agents and technology to generate brand-aligned visual and video assets within governed marketing workflows.

  • Buyer
    Accenture
    Target
    Faculty
    Location
    United Kingdom
    Type
    Buyout

    Accenture completed its acquisition of Faculty, a UK-based AI-native services and products company focused on safe, secure, and scalable applied AI solutions. The deal brings more than 400 AI professionals and Faculty’s decision intelligence platform, Frontier, into Accenture’s portfolio to help clients redesign business processes with AI. Faculty CEO and co-founder Dr. Marc Warner joined Accenture’s Global Management Committee and took on an expanded role as chief technology officer following closing.

  • March 13, 2026
    Buyer
    Legora
    Target
    Walter AI, Walter
    Location
    Canada
    Type
    Buyout

    Legora, a collaborative legal AI platform, has acquired Canadian agent-native legal AI company Walter AI (formerly Walter/Minutebook) to expand its agentic workflow capabilities. The acquisition is intended to help Legora deliver a unified, end-to-end, agent-driven legal workflow experience and strengthen its presence in the Canadian market.

  • Buyer
    Rogo
    Target
    Offset
    Location
    United States
    Type
    Buyout

    Rogo, an AI platform used by financial institutions, announced that it acquired Offset, an AI agent company focused on learning agents that operate directly inside financial workflows. The deal will allow Rogo to integrate Offset’s technology into its platform used by more than 25,000 finance professionals to build intelligent systems embedded in the tools used by analysts and investors.

  • Buyer
    Netflix
    Target
    InterPositive
    Seller
    Ben Affleck
    Location
    United States
    Type
    Buyout

    Netflix announced it has acquired InterPositive, a filmmaking technology company founded by Ben Affleck that develops AI-powered tools to support production and post-production workflows. The deal brings InterPositive’s entire team to Netflix, with Affleck joining as a Senior Advisor.

  • Buyer
    Meta Platforms
    Target
    Moltbook
    Location
    United States
    Type
    Buyout

    Meta Platforms has acquired Moltbook, an experimental social networking platform built for AI agents. Meta says the deal brings Moltbook’s co-founders into Meta’s AI research division, Meta Superintelligence Labs, to help advance next-generation AI capabilities and autonomous systems.

  • Buyer
    Invisible Technologies
    Target
    WeCP
    Type
    Buyout

    Invisible Technologies entered into an agreement to acquire WeCP, an AI-native technical assessment and intelligence platform. The deal will bring WeCP’s rigorously validated evaluation frameworks and assessment infrastructure into Invisible’s AI training platform, Meridial, to improve expert validation for high-precision AI workflows.

  • Buyer
    Havoc
    Target
    Mavrik, Teleo
    Type
    Buyout

    Havoc, an all-domain collaborative autonomy company, has closed its acquisitions of Mavrik and Teleo. The deals bring Mavrik’s drone technology and Teleo’s supervised autonomy for heavy machinery into Havoc’s single operational architecture to expand air and land capabilities and enable coordinated autonomy across domains.

  • Buyer
    Veeva Systems
    Target
    Ostro
    Type
    Buyout

    Veeva Systems has acquired Ostro, an AI-driven brand engagement platform for life sciences, for approximately $100 million in cash plus long-term equity retention grants. Ostro will continue operating as an independent unit led by CEO Chase Feiger and Veeva plans to integrate Ostro with its Commercial Cloud applications to connect online brand interactions with field engagement workflows.

  • Buyer
    CACI International Inc
    Target
    ARKA Group L.P.
    Seller
    Funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities
    Type
    Buyout

    CACI International entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ARKA Group L.P. in an all-cash transaction valued at $2.6 billion. ARKA provides space-based sensors and agentic AI-based software that deliver geospatial intelligence for national security customers. The deal subsequently closed, with more than 1,100 ARKA employees joining CACI.

  • Buyer
    Quantiphi
    Target
    Candyspace
    Location
    United Kingdom
    Type
    Buyout

    Quantiphi, an AI-first digital engineering company, announced it has acquired London-based digital product agency Candyspace. The deal is intended to expand Quantiphi’s presence across the United Kingdom and Europe while combining Quantiphi’s AI capabilities with Candyspace’s human-centered design and digital product engineering expertise.

  • Buyer
    Ōura
    Target
    Doublepoint
    Location
    Finland
    Type
    Buyout

    Ōura has acquired Doublepoint, a Helsinki-based startup developing AI-driven, biometric gesture recognition technology. The deal is intended to strengthen Ōura’s innovation roadmap and accelerate development of more intuitive, “wearable AI” interaction experiences by combining gesture recognition with Oura Ring sensing.

  • Buyer
    Google
    Target
    ProducerAI
    Type
    Buyout

    Google announced it is acquiring ProducerAI, a generative AI music creation platform, which is set to join Google Labs. ProducerAI uses AI models including Google DeepMind’s Gemini and music-generation models (e.g., Lyria) to help artists create and refine songs from prompts, with outputs watermarked using SynthID.

  • Buyer
    Riveron, Kohlberg
    Target
    Cuesta Partners

    Riveron, backed by Kohlberg, announced a strategic investment and growth partnership with Cuesta Partners to expand AI and data advisory services. The partnership combines Riveron’s finance and operational expertise with Cuesta’s AI, data, and technology capabilities to help middle-market companies modernize the Office of the CFO with AI-native solutions.

  • Buyer
    Quantum Computing Inc.
    Target
    NuCrypt, LLC
    Seller
    NuCrypt (Managing Partner Gregory Kanter is quoted)
    Type
    Buyout

    Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi) completed its acquisition of NuCrypt, LLC in a $5 million transaction paid via a combination of cash and shares of QCi common stock. The deal positions quantum communications as a key commercialization vertical within QCi’s broader quantum technology strategy and brings NuCrypt’s quantum communications systems and patent portfolio into QCi’s technology roadmap.

  • March 5, 2026
    Buyer
    RadNet
    Target
    Gleamer
    Location
    France
    Type
    Buyout

    RadNet, a U.S. outpatient diagnostic imaging services provider, announced it will acquire Paris-based radiology AI company Gleamer for up to about $270 million (up to €230 million), structured as an all-cash transaction with a post-closing milestone payment. The deal will integrate Gleamer into RadNet’s DeepHealth digital health subsidiary to expand clinical AI capabilities and scale AI-enabled radiology workflows.

  • Buyer
    Coframe
    Target
    HaystacksAI
    Type
    Buyout

    Coframe announced it has acquired HaystacksAI, an AI-powered growth and sales intelligence startup, to strengthen its autonomous experimentation platform and expand go-to-market capabilities. HaystacksAI founder and CEO Bo Mohazzabi joined Coframe as Vice President of Go-To-Market to lead sales, growth, and customer strategy and contribute to the product roadmap.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Who are the types of buyers active in AI & Machine Learning deals?

Buyers include strategic technology firms integrating AI into products (for example, ADT and Anthropic), infrastructure investors building compute platforms (Brookfield/Radiant), and growth investors or PE firms backing scale or geographic expansion (for example, Trive Capital).

What capabilities are acquirers typically seeking?

Acquirers are adding agentic/assistant capabilities, automation for sales and legal workflows, domain‑specific AI services, and IP/talent for sensing, presence detection or model integration (examples: Origin AI, Vercept, Quack AI, Upcraft, eDiscovery AI).

Are AI acquisitions concentrated in particular geographies?

Activity is concentrated in the United States across multiple states (including California, Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington and others) with meaningful transactions in Israel, the United Kingdom, and Spain, reflecting both R&D hires and market expansion.

How are deals structured in this sector?

Structures vary: cash acquisitions for product/IP integration (ADT paid $170M for Origin AI), strategic technology integrations and team transfers (Anthropic with Vercept), platform mergers backed by large program capital (Radiant/Ori with Brookfield support), and investments or debt transactions (for example, Trive Capital investing in PavCon; Livechain acquiring Humanyze's secured note).

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