Which AI Companies Got Acquired in 2026, and Who Bought Them?
Every AI company FalcoScan has verified as acquired this year, with the buyer, the market and whether the product still runs, each with a source.
16 October 2026 · 8 min read · Data updated 18 October 2026
How many AI companies were acquired in 2026?
Based on FalcoScan data updated 18 October 2026, 13 AI companies were acquired so far in 2026, three of them by merger. No buyer has bought more than one so far in 2026. Data saw the most deals, with two. Of the 10 AI companies bought outright, six still run under the buyer and for four no source has yet said. The whole of 2025 saw 23, so 2026 is running behind it for now. Every deal below links to a published source.
Which AI companies were acquired in 2026, and by whom?
Every deal FalcoScan has verified so far in 2026, A to Z by the product. The buyer opens its own page where it has bought two or more products in the graveyard; the product opens its FalcoScan record; the source opens the announcement or report that proves the deal.
| Product | Buyer | Market | Since the deal | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Augie | JWX | Video | Still runs | jwx.com |
| Brex | Capital One | Finance | Still runs | capitalone.com |
| CyberArk | Palo Alto Networks | Security | Not established | sec.gov |
| dbt Labs | Merged with Fivetran | Data | Merger of equals | getdbt.com |
| Fivetran | Merged with dbt Labs | Data | Merger of equals | fivetran.com |
| Grafbase | The Guild | Coding | Not established | the-guild.dev |
| Highspot | Merged with Seismic | Sales | Merger of equals | seismic.com |
| Pod | Backstory | Sales | Still runs | workwithpod.com |
| Semrush | Adobe | Marketing | Still runs | semrush.com |
| Tonkean | Coupa | Automation | Still runs | pymnts.com |
| Udemy | Coursera | Learning | Not established | blog.coursera.org |
| Wexler | Legora | Legal | Not established | legora.com |
| Wiz | Security | Still runs | techcrunch.com |
"Since the deal" says what a source has established about the product after the purchase; "not established" means no source has said either way. Source: FalcoScan's AI Graveyard (data updated 18 October 2026).
Who bought the most AI companies in 2026?
No buyer has bought more than one so far in 2026. Ten companies bought an AI product so far in 2026; a merger of equals is listed above but counted for neither side.
| Buyer | Deals in 2026 | What it bought | All-time purchases |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe | 1 | Semrush | 2 |
| Backstory | 1 | Pod | 1 |
| Capital One | 1 | Brex | 1 |
| Coupa | 1 | Tonkean | 1 |
| Coursera | 1 | Udemy | 1 |
| 1 | Wiz | 3 | |
| JWX | 1 | Augie | 1 |
| Legora | 1 | Wexler | 1 |
| Palo Alto Networks | 1 | CyberArk | 2 |
| The Guild | 1 | Grafbase | 1 |
All-time purchases counts every product the buyer has bought in the AI Graveyard, in any year. Source: FalcoScan's AI Graveyard (data updated 18 October 2026).
Which AI markets saw the most deals in 2026?
Deals so far in 2026 by market, next to how many products FalcoScan has tracked in the market and how many of those have been acquired in any year. A market name opens that market's page.
| Market | Acquired in 2026 | Acquired, all years | Tracked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data | 2 | 7 | 401 |
| Sales | 2 | 4 | 284 |
| Security | 2 | 8 | 358 |
| Automation | 1 | 6 | 364 |
| Coding | 1 | 4 | 511 |
| Finance | 1 | 9 | 393 |
| Learning | 1 | 4 | 267 |
| Legal | 1 | 3 | 132 |
| Marketing | 1 | 9 | 295 |
| Video | 1 | 6 | 347 |
Source: FalcoScan's AI Graveyard (data updated 18 October 2026).
Count of verified acquisitions per market. Unit: companies. Source: FalcoScan's AI Graveyard (data updated 18 October 2026).
Do the acquired products still run?
Of the 10 AI companies bought outright, six still run under the buyer and for four no source has yet said. Confirmed still running: Augie, Brex, Pod, Semrush, Tonkean and Wiz.
Three products bought in an earlier year shut down so far in 2026: Continue (bought by Cursor), Ready Player Me (bought by Netflix) and Unscreen (bought by Canva in 2021). Those count as shut-downs, not as this year's acquisitions.
How does 2026 compare with earlier years?
The whole of 2025 saw 23, so 2026 is running behind it for now. The table runs back through every year with a dated record. A year is the year the deal closed; products whose deal date is not established are left out of it.
| Year | Acquired | Shut down | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 so far | 13 | 8 | 21 |
| 2025 | 23 | 14 | 37 |
| 2024 | 20 | 6 | 26 |
| 2023 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 2022 | 15 | 0 | 15 |
| 2021 | 16 | 2 | 18 |
| 2020 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2019 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2018 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Source: FalcoScan's AI Graveyard (data updated 18 October 2026).
How does FalcoScan record an acquisition?
A product enters the AI Graveyard as acquired only when a published source says it was bought or merged. Every entry links to a published source. Catalog listings of the same product are merged into one record, so counts here are products, not listings. A product that was bought and later shut down is counted once, as a shut-down that keeps its buyer. Whether an acquired product still runs is recorded only when a source says so. The method is set out on the AI Graveyard page and in the methodology. This page is rebuilt from the latest refresh, and the date at the top is the date of the data it used.
Where can you dig into the deals?
Who buys AI startups lists every buyer in the graveyard with what it bought, and the 2026 page answers the year's questions in one place. For the buyers across every year, with every deal, read who is buying AI startups, and for the products that did not find a buyer, which AI products shut down in 2026. The frozen report what died and where it went keeps a reference reading, and the Pulse carries what moved this week.
Questions people ask
How many AI companies were acquired in 2026?
13 AI companies in FalcoScan's AI Graveyard (data updated 18 October 2026) were acquired so far in 2026, three of them by merger. The whole of 2025 saw 23, so 2026 is running behind it for now.
Which AI companies were acquired in 2026, and by whom?
According to FalcoScan's AI Graveyard (data updated 18 October 2026), the AI companies acquired so far in 2026 are Augie (by JWX), Brex (by Capital One), CyberArk (by Palo Alto Networks), dbt Labs (merged with Fivetran), Fivetran (merged with dbt Labs), Grafbase (by The Guild), Highspot (merged with Seismic), Pod (by Backstory), Semrush (by Adobe), Tonkean (by Coupa), Udemy (by Coursera), Wexler (by Legora) and Wiz (by Google).
Do the AI companies acquired in 2026 still run?
Of the 10 AI companies bought outright, six still run under the buyer and for four no source has yet said. Another three products bought in an earlier year shut down so far in 2026: Continue, Ready Player Me and Unscreen.
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Citing these numbers
Every figure here is read from the FalcoScan catalog, and this page refreshes daily. The numbers above are from the data updated on 18 October 2026. When you quote one, quote that date with it.
FalcoScan, “Which AI Companies Got Acquired in 2026, and Who Bought Them?”, data updated 18 October 2026. https://falcoscan.com/articles/ai-companies-acquired-in-2026