M&A

Five9 is buying Level AI for $325M in cash and will keep selling its QA, agent assist and VoC apps to contact centers on other platforms. Level AI customers should get pricing, data-use and integration terms in writing before the Q4 close.

EXL has acquired Aimpoint Digital and about 250 AI and data specialists, with terms undisclosed. The release does not cover client contracts, staff retention or the brand, so clients should get those answers in writing.

Meta has acquired Conductor. Cloud workspaces go read-only on November 13, deletion starts November 20, and the local Mac app gets updates only until early 2027.

OpenAI will acquire Pierre and move Code Storage's features into Codex. Customers can stay after closing, with no end date, so map your exit now.

Docusign announced its acquisition of Suplari with five undated plans and nothing for current customers. Microsoft told those customers "no change" in 2021, then divested the company in 2023.

CrowdStrike plans to move Dreadnode's AI security testing onto Falcon, but neither company has addressed existing contracts, standalone sales or on-prem deployment. Get those terms in writing and keep a second tester for outside evidence.

Yext closed its Flamel.ai purchase on November 2 without publishing combined pricing, a roadmap or limits on agent spending. Franchise brands should get ad network coverage and budget controls in writing before renewal.

Chord bought Zenlytic and its Zoë analyst agent for a reported $5 million, with no public word on warehouse support, pricing or contracts. Zenlytic customers should get those answers in writing before renewal.

CrowdStrike will sell Fiddler as Falcon Observe after a deal reported at about $400 million. Neither company has said whether Fiddler stays standalone or keeps its on-premises and GovCloud options, so customers should get those terms in writing before the close.

Salesforce says Cresta will keep supporting the contact center platforms its customers use, but names none and sets no end date. Customers have until a close expected between February and April 2027 to get terms in writing.

Aramco closed on 49% of HUMAIN, and the EU filing describes joint control with PIF. Anyone buying HUMAIN compute, cloud or ALLaM should settle data separation, capacity priority and exit terms before signing.

Salesforce signed a deal to acquire Rune Technologies, maker of the TyrOS edge logistics platform, reportedly for $375M. TyrOS users should pin down the deal structure, the fate of Rune's $99M Army IDIQ and where edge data will sync before close.

Apple is hiring Ascend.io's team and licensing its IP, and Ascend says it is winding down with no shutdown date. Pipeline code lives in your Git repo but runs only on Ascend's runtime, so migration should start now.

Naveen Rao's Unconventional AI is buying NeuReality for its silicon team. Neither company has said what happens to NR-NEXUS, the NR2 AI-SuperNIC or existing licences, so customers should get continuity terms in writing before the Q4 close.

Guidewire will pay $1.7B in cash plus up to $400M in earnout for hyperexponential's hx pricing platform. Neither company has said what happens to hx customers on Duck Creek or other non-Guidewire cores.

Zafin signed a deal to buy Naehas, the offer management and disclosure automation platform used by large U.S. banks. Closing is expected in Q4 2026, which gives Naehas customers a short window to lock pricing, roadmap and data terms.

Protectt.ai, a Series A mobile app security startup, is taking control of Bosch's AIShield. Customers of AISpectra and AIGuardian should confirm their contracting entity, support team and on-prem roadmap now.

Itaú Unibanco agreed to pay R$2.925 billion (about $589 million) for NeoSpace, the tabular foundation-model startup behind its credit, CRM and fraud models. Other NeoSpace customers now buy from a vendor a rival bank owns.

LSEG agreed to buy Octus for $3.535 billion in cash, putting the covenant and private credit data its 750 customers reach through the platform, an MCP connector and AI workflows inside the owner of Workspace. The release says nothing about pricing or contract terms, so credit teams should lock in terms before the H1 2027 close.

Collibra bought trail ML on October 5 and has said nothing about standalone availability or trail's OneTrust and ServiceNow connectors. Export your evidence and put the integrations in the contract.

OpenAI is moving Orchestra Bio's drug-program agents into Rosalind and has not said whether the standalone product or its contracts survive. Customers should export their data and get continuity terms in writing.

Kapital is buying Woz for $30M in cash and stock and moving both founders into bank roles. The announcement says nothing about WOZCODE, so engineering teams should baseline its savings, pin the version and plan an exit.

Salesforce is paying $47.50 a share in cash for Braze and keeping its brand and CEO. Pricing, warehouse connectors and standalone sales are not addressed, so Braze customers should negotiate before the deal closes in Salesforce's fiscal 2028.

Boomi bought Elementary Data for a reported $40-45M. Elementary says contracts and standalone purchase hold only 'at this time' and 'for now,' so Cloud customers should lock terms before renewal and keep the Apache 2.0 package ready as an exit.

Hex-Rays, maker of IDA Pro, is buying HexAI (formerly Ventris) for a reported $30M-$35M. Its new AI research tools are currently available only through HexAI, so IDA customers should settle model choice, air-gap support and pricing before they renew.

Intuit is buying Sequence to add revenue management to Intuit Enterprise Suite, but three of the four ledgers Sequence syncs to are Intuit competitors, and the only promise to existing customers is continued support with no dates.

Agilent is buying Proscia for $240 million plus up to $30 million in milestones, and it already sells its own slide scanner. Labs and pharma teams on Concentriq should get scanner support, third-party AI access and data export written into their contracts before close.

Cohere signed a letter of intent to buy AISLE, the AI vulnerability discovery vendor, with no price, close date or model plan. Customers running it in Bedrock, Foundry or Vertex have the most to pin down.

Varonis ends self-hosted support on December 31, 2026, and Proofpoint's $6.3B purchase should close in the first half of 2027. The SaaS migration contract you sign now is the one Proofpoint inherits.

GTCR and Elliott agreed to take CCC private at a $6.1B enterprise value, with closing expected in Q1 2027. Carriers and repair shops running Estimate-STP and CCC ONE have until then to get price caps, data-use limits and exit rights into their contracts.

Prime Intellect bought Moondream for its Photon engine, and Moondream Cloud and Lens close November 13. Base weights self-host free, but local fine-tunes still need a Moondream API key.

Workday is buying C1.ai (formerly ConductorOne) so HR events grant and revoke access for people and AI agents. The announcement says nothing about C1 customers whose HR system isn't Workday.

Anthropic licensed OPAQUE's confidential AI technology and hired part of its team. OPAQUE's announcement says nothing about the platform, support or its open-source projects, so customers should get answers in writing now.

Rocket Software bought Geniez AI, whose connector let Claude, GPT, Gemini or Llama read Db2, IMS and VSAM under RACF. The release names no models, prices or continuity terms, so get them in writing before EVA becomes the only way to buy it.

Sopris Capital has closed its purchase of Blackford Analysis from Bayer, reported October 9, and is merging it into Azra AI. The only public commitment covers existing customers, with nothing on pricing, BAAs or the 45-plus AI vendors on the platform.

Salesforce will fold Loops' causal KPI analyst into Tableau and said nothing about existing Loops contracts. Customers off Tableau should lock in export and renewal terms before the early-November close.

Nvidia is reportedly in talks to buy, acquihire or take a bigger stake in Reflection AI, and Beam's promised Apache 2.0 weights have not been published yet. Mirror a released checkpoint before you standardise on Beam.

Amazon is in talks to buy Decart for about $7 billion, which would put the DOS layer sold as neutral across Nvidia, Trainium and TPU inside Trainium's maker. Customers should get named multi-chip support in writing before a deal signs.

Hightouch bought Strata, whose agent builds and maintains custom API integrations from a plain-language description. The deal is silent on Strata's standalone customers, pricing, and how agent-made changes are reviewed before they write to production.

The Deno team is joining Cloudflare. Deno Deploy shuts down six months after the October 9 announcement, the runtime gets one more year of security releases, and Cloudflare's self-hosted Workers plan has no date.

Harness bought Augment Code's Cosmos, Auggie CLI and Code Context Engine plus the team, but not the company. Neither side has said what happens to existing Augment contracts, credits or code indexes.

Source.ag bought Optimal to run greenhouse climate autonomously from this winter. The 13% yield and 27% energy figures match Optimal's own 2023 demo greenhouse, and the release says nothing on price, crop-loss liability or existing customers.

Automation Anywhere is buying Boost.ai from Nordic Capital with no price, roadmap or customer commitments disclosed. Boost.ai's European banks and insurers, and Aisera customers facing an overlapping stack, should fix price, exit and data terms before the Q4 2026 close.

Zeta Global is buying Senso, the startup whose technology already powers Zeta GEO, with no disclosed price or close date. Senso's direct customers, mostly credit unions, are on terms that let Senso assign the contract freely and delete their data at exit.

Schneider Electric is paying $205 a share in cash for PTC, with close expected in Q3 2027. Its only customer-facing promise is an 'open-by-design' sentence, so Windchill and Creo buyers should get pricing and export terms in writing first.

Supabase is buying Turso to give every agent its own database. Both companies say Turso keeps running, but neither names a price, an SLA or a close date, so Turso customers should get their current terms in writing now.

Nebius bought Inferize to cut GPU cold starts in Token Factory from minutes to seconds, but published no date, price change or capacity guarantee, and its own docs warn released capacity may not come back. Keep your minimum replicas until both are in the contract.

Inworld bought Ultravox and gave its own voices a free TTS-2 upgrade. Agents on ElevenLabs, Cartesia and other third-party voices got one line: nothing changes today.

Clio, which sells AI to litigators, now owns the AI that judges in LA County, Michigan and 10 states use to draft bench memos and orders. Its only customer pledge is continued support, so courts should get data segregation, model disclosure and exit rights in writing.

Salesforce is buying Listen Labs, reportedly for about $2 billion, and says nothing about customers' interview data or the digital twins trained on it. Listen Labs' public terms have no export or change-of-control clause.

Bolt.new's first acquisition brings Dokai's autonomous CRM agents into an app builder whose enterprise customers often build before they sign. Set write scopes and approval gates before the late-fall release.

ZoomInfo bought DoubleO.ai's multi-agent orchestration with no price, SKU or continuity pledge, in the quarter it starts moving seat contracts to pre-bought consumption. Price the agent layer before your renewal does it for you.

NetApp is buying PEAK:AIO to put its pNFS metadata engine inside ONTAP. The announcement says nothing about the standalone software customers run on their own Dell, Supermicro or Gigabyte servers — get continuity terms before close.

HCLSoftware is buying Zagreb RPA vendor Robotiq.ai for €9M to give HCL UnO Agentic a robot for API-less systems. The release says nothing on licences, support or pricing, so regulated customers should use DORA's contract rules before the November close.

Mark43, a CAD and RMS vendor, now owns ForceMetrics, the AI search layer 64 police agencies run across their dispatch, records and jail systems. The only cross-vendor commitment is one sentence in a press release.

AMD is buying World Labs for about $8.2B in stock, and neither company has said what happens to Marble or the World API. World Labs' terms already allow assignment and termination at any time — export your worlds before the year-end close.

AppDirect bought Soul Machines after a KPMG receivership, with no terms disclosed. Soul Machines' standard contract lets it assign your deal to a buyer, keeps ownership of your custom avatar, and gives you 30 days to retrieve data after termination.

Mitratech bought BotDojo to run ARIES agents on matter and spend data. BotDojo's public terms have no export or assignment clause, and no one has said what happens to its Salesforce and Zendesk customers.

Adlib is buying Paperbox, the Ghent AI vendor that triages European insurers' claims email and trains on anonymized transactions. The release says nothing on residency, sub-processors or pricing, so DORA-scoped insurers should treat it as a change-of-control review.

Omada bought EmpowerID for runtime AI-agent authorization, but the two vendors' IGA suites overlap and the announcement says nothing about EmpowerID's product line or support. Get commitments in writing before renewal.