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Business Insider reported on September 11, 2026 that Google completed a talent deal with Mechanize. Co-founder Tamay Besiroglu is now a DeepMind research scientist; more than a dozen former employees moved to Google, mostly midtraining. August talks were reported above $1.5 billion. Final terms were not disclosed. Not an acquisition. Mechanize remains a company under new CEO Guive Assadi.
Bending Spoons (NASDAQ: BSP) signed a definitive all-cash deal to acquire Miro at a $1.355 billion enterprise value on September 10, 2026. Equity value is about $1.79 billion after net cash. Certain sellers will roll $295 million into new BSP shares. Not closed; expected Q4 2026. Miro last printed $17.5 billion in January 2022. Company ARR claim: about $600 million.
Reuters said Shanghai Enflame Technology (688801.SS) raised 6.12 billion yuan ($912 million) on September 11, 2026, and closed up 179%. Tencent is the largest shareholder and accounted for 83.79% of 2025 revenue. The company lost 1.16 billion yuan on 990.2 million yuan of sales. First-day cap is not a diligence mark.
Swish Ventures closed Fund III at $250 million (September 3; $800 million is AUM). ServiceNow confirmed it acquired Sweep with no release; about $400 million is Geektime. Roundup-only: AI Score $5.4 million, iPremom €15 million, Adobe–Rilo, Tensive €20 million EIB loan.
A ServiceNow spokesperson confirmed to Geektime and CTech that ServiceNow has acquired Sweep (sweep.io). No company press release. Official terms undisclosed. Geektime sources put the price at about $400 million; CTech wrote hundreds of millions. Insight led the May 2025 $22.5 million Series B; Bessemer returned. Not Sweep the climate company.
Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion (not closed; H1 2027). Also this window: Sirdab $10M Series A (YC, company says profitable), Elucid $55M Series D, Zeit AI €4.3M, Hivebotics $6M.
