Exits
M&A, IPOs, secondaries, shutdowns.
- AMD agrees to buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B in stock
Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist, while World Labs' research team is set to continue inside the chipmaker.
- Replit acquires Atta and adds business analysis to its coding agent
The first integration puts interactive, AI-generated charts in Replit chat, extending the platform from building apps to exploring company data.
- NetApp plans to buy PEAK:AIO for its AI storage architecture
Founder Mark Klarzynski built three storage companies that were acquired before PEAK:AIO; NetApp wants its metadata technology alongside ONTAP.
- Firmus plans a $5B IPO with a $77M first-half loss forecast
Co-founders Oliver Curtis and Tim Rosenfield are taking an infrastructure builder to public markets as most of its planned data centers remain under development.
- Cognex will buy RealSense for $500M, 14 months after its Intel spinout
The deal gives Cognex a robotics perception stack and values RealSense at roughly 5.6x to 6.3x its projected 2026 revenue.
- Nscale files for an IPO after $1.02B first-half loss and rapid AI buildout
Josh Payne's AI infrastructure builder reported $140.6M in half-year revenue; share count, price range and proceeds remain unset.
- Darkroom opens Shadow, its co-founder's AI workspace, starting at $120 a month
Jackson Corey built Shadow after stepping back from agency operations; Darkroom acquired the sister company and ran on it for six months.
- TRG buys Vista in its third endpoint-services deal since July
Sean Kennedy's Gemspring-backed roll-up adds more than 400 field and support staff across the UK and Ireland; terms were not disclosed.
- OpenAI buys Glass Imaging, adding iPhone camera veterans to its hardware push
Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop built iPhone Portrait Mode technology before creating a neural image processor valued above $300M in OpenAI's deal.
- fal acquires Lucent to add creative agents above its model APIs
Dimi Panagiotopoulos and Alex Koumpas join fal after building an ad-focused workspace that coordinated image and video models through chat.
- Superhuman agrees to buy Fathom to give its agents meeting memory
Richard White is betting on Superhuman's 40 million-user distribution as meeting notes become fuel for workplace agents.
- Yardi buys Sidero Labs as Talos Linux adds a native hypervisor
Sidero president Steve Francis says the acquisition will support Talos Linux's move into virtual machines and standalone containers; an alpha release is due at TalosCon in October, with general availability planned for December.
- OpenAI shelves its 2026 IPO because the safety work is not done
Sam Altman's decision keeps OpenAI private after an S-1 filing and shifts the public-market race to Anthropic.
- Baseten announces Blaxel acquisition to put agent runtimes beside model inference
Baseten says the acquisition will add sandboxes, persistent storage and networking for long-running agents, with Blaxel remaining available during the integration.
- 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.