- Analog Devices agrees to pay up to $1.55B for Alif's edge AI chips
Analog Devices is buying the seven-year-old chipmaker founded by Syed Ali and Reza Kazerounian, which builds processors for AI inside power-constrained devices.
- Anthropic weighs shareholder sales in IPO and a lockup longer than 180 days
The AI developer plans to publish its prospectus after Labor Day, ahead of a possible late September or early October listing.
- Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, report says
The deal gives Nvidia control of a central open-model distribution layer at roughly 86 times Hugging Face's annualized revenue.
- Sword Health plans a $300M Headspace buyout after its $3B pandemic mark
Debt and roughly $397M in disclosed equity funding leave common shareholders at the back of a crowded payout line.
- Clerky joins Stripe, pushing its startup stack beyond Atlas incorporation
Darby Wong says Clerky will keep building for high-growth startups and attorneys, giving Stripe a deeper set of company-formation workflows.
- Flipboard announces Graze acquisition to monetize user-built social feeds
Devin Gaffney plans to pair Graze's feed engine with Flipboard's advertiser relationships after 21 months of running lean.
- DuckLabs agrees to join AWS while DuckDB stays with its foundation
The deal is expected to close in early September, bringing DuckLabs' Amsterdam team into AWS while the DuckDB Foundation continues to steward the MIT-licensed projects.
- Gamma acquires Lica and puts its founders in charge of design research
Priyaa Kalyanaraman and Purvanshi Mehta will pair Lica's model research with Gamma's claimed 100 million-user distribution.
- Oura eyes September IPO above $16B as investors may sell shares
Bloomberg reports Oura could raise up to $3B in September, with existing investors expected to sell a significant share of the offering.
- Agility Robotics targets fall SPAC close after Unitree's 460% debut
Peggy Johnson is pitching industrial deployments and $300M in potential multi-year contract value as Agility seeks a $2.5B pre-money valuation.
- YipitData explores a sale above $2.5B after its Groupon-era pivot
Goldman Sachs is testing buyer interest as the data provider targets about $280M in 2026 recurring revenue, Reuters reports.
- Munich Re will buy At-Bay for $575M, Reuters reports
Reuters said the deal carries a $575 million enterprise value and is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027. Munich Re's 2025 annual report listed At-Bay as a 3.68% holding at year-end.
- Checkr announces Truv deal, with the price and closing still offstage
Checkr says the proposed transaction would add Truv's payroll, bank and state-agency verification network, although no reviewed source confirms a legal closing or discloses the price.
- Anthropic's revenue run rate tops $65B ahead of its planned IPO
The July figure is up from $9B at the end of 2025 and 38% above the pace Anthropic reported in May.
- DoiT acquired Attribute to trace AI costs beneath the billing layer
Founders Izhak Zimmermann and Liad Tropp built a kernel-level answer to AI cost allocation; CTech estimates the undisclosed deal at $65M.
- Stripe agrees to buy OpenRouter for more than $7B
The deal would pair model routing with the billing stack OpenRouter already uses, months after a $113M round valued it near $1.3B.
- Arcade acquires Smithery to control agent tool discovery and execution
The deal gives Arcade a popular MCP registry six weeks after its $60 million Series A, extending its reach from authorization into distribution.
- FM acquires FortressFire to add property-level wildfire modeling to insurance
Michael Ashker's platform will remain an independent FM division, pairing ignition modeling and mitigation workflows with the insurer's engineering operation.
- Archer buys Boeing's Wisk, SkyGrid and Insitu to expand beyond air taxis
The deal gives Adam Goldstein autonomy technology, airspace software and a defense drone business Boeing says generates over $200 million annually.
- OpenAI acquires NextSlide as ChatGPT expands into PowerPoint
Founder Ahmed Beshry is selling a second startup after Caper, and his new team will work on ChatGPT's creation and communication tools.
- Formlabs weighs $500 million IPO after reporting $250 million-plus revenue
Bloomberg says the MIT spinout is in early adviser talks, five years after SoftBank led a $150 million round at a $2 billion valuation.
- AMD acquires Taalas to add model-specific silicon to its AI inference stack
The Toronto chipmaker raised $219 million to hardwire AI models into silicon; AMD did not disclose the price and plans to pair the technology with Instinct GPUs.
- Airtable spun out Hyperagent before Bending Spoons' $1.285 billion acquisition
The pending sale sends Airtable's core SaaS business to Bending Spoons while Hyperagent moves into a separate Delaware corporation.
- SpaceX's 911.5 million-share unlock will test its $1.8 trillion IPO math
Employees and early investors can begin selling on August 6th, replacing the scarcity behind SpaceX's debut with a deeper test of demand.