Character.ai sale notice in USA Today leaves 9 days to object
ppc.land — Bidders get until November 24, yet the legal ad printed on November 9 never names Character.ai or any price. What, if anything, did it tell the app's users?
Acquisitions
Acquisitions involve the purchase of companies or specific assets by larger corporations to expand operations or acquire technology. Truncated covers merger announcements, regulatory approvals and antitrust investigations, deal valuations, and corporate consolidation trends within the industry.
Cribl Buys Tero to Build Observability for Humans and AI Agents
www.unite.ai — Cribl announced on November 10, 2026 that it had acquired Tero, a company whose technology identifies low-value observability data. Tero’s founders and engineers are joining Cribl to develop observability for engineers a...
BREAKING 🔥: Stripe acquired OpenRouter!!!
OpenAI Acquires AI Travel Startup Odessia as Founder Joins
www.unite.ai — Odessia founder Francis Davidson announced on November 10, 2026 that OpenAI had acquired the AI travel-planning startup and that he was joining OpenAI to focus on the future of travel. The standalone Odessia service has...
Maor Shlomo's Base44 exit keeps getting bigger, with Wix deal now potentially reaching $280 million
www.calcalistech.com — Wix has set aside an additional $32 million in potential performance-based payments to the Base44 founder, bringing the estimated value of the 2025 acquisition to as much as $280 million. The latest provision comes as Base44 approaches $250 million in annual recurring revenue, less than a year and a half after its sale to Wix.
Oura to Buy On-Demand Doctor AI Service Counsel Health; Revenue Jumps 153% in Q4
Flash, a software sauce, and a guy named Gary: AMD’s Mext acquisition looks set to reshape AI memory costs
www.sdxcentral.com — Mext’s founder turned an AMD product briefing into the Gary Show
Elomia Health acquires Earkick to expand AI mental wellbeing platform
tech.eu — The deal brings Earkick's AI models and contextual memory technology to Elomia's platform as the ompany shifts from a consumer app to providing AI wellbeing infrastructure for healthcare organisations.
Vanta Signs Deal to Acquire AI Security Firm Pillar Security
www.unite.ai — Pillar Security announced on November 9, 2026 that Vanta had signed a definitive agreement to acquire the AI security company. The planned deal would connect Pillar’s agent testing and runtime protection with Vanta’s Tru...
Bio Search Signs Share-Exchange Deal for Brain-AI Firm InnerEye
www.unite.ai — Japan’s Bio Search announced on November 9, 2026 that it had signed a share-exchange agreement to acquire 100% of InnerEye, an Israeli company developing AI that analyzes brain signals in real time. The transaction would...
Jason’s Takes on This Week’s 20VC: A 72% Cost Drop on Our Own App, the $100M Acquisition Bar, and DoorDash’s Third Competitor
www.saastr.com — The decisions behind this week’s headlines: how to price for falling model costs, how to report growth when your percentages are shrinking, and why you need to test whether you’re expan…
SaaStr AI App of the Week: Base44. One Founder, Zero Funding, $80 Million From Wix in 6 Months. Now at $200 Million ARR.
SaaStrAI — Every few years a company comes along that rewrites what founders think is possible. Base44 is that company for the AI era. In January 2025, Maor Shlomo, a 31-year-old former Israeli Intelligence C…
Cognizant Completes Wizeline Deal to Expand AI Product Engineering
Unite.AI — Cognizant announced on November 6, 2026 that it had acquired Wizeline, a global services firm focused on AI-native engineering and digital product development for enterprises. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acqu...
Equiti acquires Lexi AI to combine AI, human medical interpretation
Fierce Healthcare — Equiti is acquiring Lexi AI to build a hybrid language-access model that combines AI language support with human medical interpreters. | The acquisition deal merges Lexi's immediate AI language support, covering over 35 languages and dialects, with Martti and its network of qualified medical interpreters to help healthcare organizations expand language access.
SupportNinja Brings AI-Native CX Solutions to Ecommerce Through Aventus Acquisition
MarTech Series — SupportNinja, a leading strategic outsourcing and CX transformation partner, announced its acquisition of Aventus, bringing AI-native, human-led customer experience (CX) solutions to ecommerce and direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands through the newly launched Aventus by SupportNinja.
Palo Alto Networks in talks to acquire two-year-old Israeli cyber startup Beacon
ctech — Beacon has developed a platform that gives AI agents the data and context needed to detect, investigate and respond to cyber threats. Beacon raised $13 million in July and reported more than 300% growth in annual recurring revenue in the first half of 2026.
Palo Alto Networks in talks to buy AI agent security startup Clutch for $500M
TechCrunch — Clutch, backed by Lightspeed and SignalFire, was last valued at $85 million, according to a source.
Priority acquires AI-powered CRM company Fireberry in deal valued at over $30 million
ctech — The transaction marks the Israeli software company's fifth acquisition since Blackstone took control in 2024, and its largest to date under the investment firm's ownership.
Runtime: OpenAI's plans to expand its enterprise foothold
The Stack — + Railway's hacking misadventure, the Home Office bets big on AWS, and Datadog's growth spurt is slowing down.
SEO May Be Dead. Shopify Just Paid ~$100 Million for Shop.com Anyway.
SaaStrAI — The old SEO playbook is breaking. If your pipeline depends on Google sending you clicks, you’ve probably watched those clicks shrink over the last 18 months. We’ve seen it at SaaStr too…
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