Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say | TechCrunch
Palo Alto Networks paid $500 million in cash and stock to acquire Console, a two-year-old startup that uses AI agents…
Tag: Mergers and Acquisitions
Adobe acquires Indian market intelligence startup Rilo | TechCrunch
Adobe has acquired India-based marketing intelligence startup Rilo in a deal involving licensing and team acquisition, TechCrunch learned and the…
Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica | TechCrunch
Presentation startup Gamma has acquired Accel-backed design startup Lica in a bid to build out its own design research lab,…
Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup | TechCrunch
Elon Musk’s SpaceX attempted to acquire AI coding startup Cognition as it works to catch up to OpenAI, Anthropic, and…
Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+ | TechCrunch
Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter, according to a new report in Bloomberg. OpenRouter helps customers select different…
Nscale buys Anyscale as it seeks to own more of the AI compute stack | TechCrunch
In a bid to capture more of its customers’ AI spending, British AI neocloud Nscale is buying software startup Anyscale,…
Netflix paid $587M for Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup | TechCrunch
In a new regulatory filing, Netflix revealed that it paid $587 million in cash for InterPositive, a startup co-founded by…
The 10 Hottest AI Startups of 2026 (So Far)
Here’s the 10 coolest AI startups of 2026 raising billions in investments and launching new AI innovation around agentic, security,…
Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero | TechCrunch
GPTZero, the three-year-old AI detection startup that Princeton grad Edward Tian first built as a senior thesis project, has been…
Warner Music acquires AI attribution startup Sureel AI | TechCrunch
Warner Music Music (WMG) announced on Wednesday that it’s acquiring AI attribution startup Sureel AI. Sureel’s patented technology creates “AI…
Eli Lilly Grows Again in Genetic Medicines, Buying Startup With a New Way to Deliver DNA – MedCity News
Engineered viruses are a mainstay in genetic medicine due to their ability to ferry genetic cargo into cells. But limitations…
SAP bets $1.16B on 18-month-old German AI lab and says yes to NemoClaw | TechCrunch
By OpenAI COO’s own admission last February, “we have not yet really seen AI penetrate enterprise business processes.” But for…
Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions | TechCrunch
Meta has acquired humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI) for an undisclosed sum, the social media giant said. “We…
Five Companies That Came To Win This Week
For the week ending May 1, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the…
Cohere acquires, merges with Germany-based startup to create a ‘transatlantic AI powerhouse’ | TechCrunch
Cohere, the Canada-based enterprise AI unicorn, announced Friday that it would merge with the Germany-based enterprise AI company Aleph Alpha. The deal,…
Monarch Tractor’s collapse ends with an acquisition by Caterpillar | TechCrunch
Monarch Tractor’s assets have been acquired by construction giant Caterpillar, after struggling to pivot to a software services business, according…
Eli Lilly Buys Startup CrossBridge Bio to Bring a More Powerful Strike to Tumors – MedCity News
Antibody drug conjugates continue to be a robust area for research and dealmaking, and Eli Lilly’s latest move in this…
Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio in $400M deal: Reports | TechCrunch
Anthropic has purchased the stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal, according to The Information…