Announced: June 2025 Deal Value: $2 B

AI-powered audience engagement software Resulticks was picked up by sustainability regtech solutions provider Diginex for $2B to bolster its data management and AI capabilities. Additionally, Diginex aims to leverage Resulticks' technology to provide hyper-personalized insights and expand into new verticals.

Announced: May 2025 Deal Value: $2 B

Mid-market ERP business management software Acumatica swapped its PE owner from EQT to Vista Equity Partners in a $2B deal at 16 times revenue to power its AI-first product strategy and further strengthen its partner ecosystem community.

Announced: May 2025 Deal Value: $8.1B

The largest deal in the first half of 2025 happened in May, when cloud data management software Informatica was pocketed by Salesforce for approximately $8 billion at 5.3 times revenue to strengthen its AI and data infrastructure capabilities. It helps Salesforce to establish a unified architecture for autonomous agentic AI by supercharging its Agentforce, Data Cloud, Tableau, MuleSoft, and Customer 360 offerings.

Announced: May 2025 Deal Value: $6.5 B

OpenAI, maker of AI chatbot ChatGPT, bought AI-enabled smart gadgets startup iO Products for $6.5B, entering the consumer hardware market. iO, founded by Apple’s former design chief Jony Ive, could play a vital role in shaping OpenAI's creative vision to redefine human-machine interaction and invent screenless, context-aware AI devices.

Announced: April 2025 Deal Value: $5.1 B

Dotmatics which provides AI-based scientific research and development software for the life sciences industry, was acquired by industrial automation giant Siemens for $5.1B, beefing up its Life Sciences portfolio. Life Sciences is an attractive complementary software market opportunity, and this acquisition expands Siemens’ industrial software total addressable market by $11B.

Announced: June 2025 Deal Value: Under $100 M, specific value not disclosed

In the AR and wearable’s technology space, U.S.-based smart glasses startup SoftEye was pocketed by Japanese electronic components manufacturer TDK for less than $100M to enable AI, eye-tracking and object recognition within smart glasses. This move solidifies TDK’s position in the market as tech giants such as Meta, Qualcomm and Snap are accelerating the development of their own smart glasses for consumers.

Announced: June 2025 Deal Value: Undisclosed

In an effort to position itself as a more formidable competitor to Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices acquired AI inference optimization software Brium to bolster its open-source AI strategy and further optimize performance on AMD hardware. As a large percentage of AI software is being designed for Nvidia hardware and chips, Brium helps to make AI software work seamlessly across various hardware platforms and reduce industry reliance on Nvidia’s proprietary frameworks.

Announced: May 2025 Deal Value: $150 M

Influencer marketing platform Captiv8 was scooped up by global French ad agency Publicis Groupe for a reported $150M at 5.5 times revenue to boost its suite of influencer marketing and social commerce tools. This deal follows Publicis’ $500M acquisition of Influential in July 2024, which brought one of the industry’s largest influencer networks under its roof. Together Influential and Captiv8 will create the world’s largest creator network operating independently but closely under Publicis’ Connected Media unit.

Announced: May 2025 Deal Value: $1 B

Thoma Bravo-backed enterprise cybersecurity company Proofpoint snapped up its German rival Hornetsecurity in a deal worth about $1B at 6.3 times revenue in its largest ever acquisition. This deal expands Proofpoint’s security capabilities for the unique needs of MSP partners and SMB customers.

Announced: April 2025 Deal Value: $100 M

In the healthcare space, AI-powered cancer detection software iCAD was picked up by radiology and diagnostic imaging services provider RadNet for approximately $100M at 4.1 times revenue to improve the accuracy and early detection of breast cancer with AI. Since iCAD is complementary to RadNet’s radiology AI-powered health informatics subsidiary, DeepHealth, it will be integrated into its portfolio of solutions.