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For deal sourcers, staying current on private company activity is critical to spotting active buyers, tracking market trends, and uncovering emerging investment opportunities ahead of competitors.
In June alone, we added more than 1,500 new private company transactions, bringing the total to over 25,700 searchable deals across sectors, industries, and transaction types in Dakota Marketplace.
Inside Dakota Marketplace, you’ll find the transactions tab that provides structured, filterable data on deal types, values, and dates, while our editorial team curates daily updates through the dakota transactions newsletter, helping you cut through the noise and focus on what matters most.
To ensure the most comprehensive coverage of private market activity, Dakota monitors over 10,000 websites including company websites, newswires, and numerous third-party news providers to capture and verify transaction data as it happens.
Below are the top 10 information technology transactions.
- Transaction Date: 6/16/2026
- Industry: Software
- Type: Acquisition/Merger
- Transaction Value: $60B
SpaceX has agreed to acquire Anysphere, the company behind the Cursor AI coding assistant, for $60 billion in an all-stock transaction — one of the largest technology acquisitions ever announced — with Cursor shareholders receiving SpaceX Class A common stock based on a 7-day volume-weighted average price at closing. The deal, expected to close in Q3 2026 subject to regulatory approvals, brings one of the most widely adopted AI-powered developer tools into SpaceX's portfolio as the company expands beyond aerospace into artificial intelligence and software infrastructure.
- Transaction Date: 6/11/2026
- Industry: Software
- Type: Venture
- Transaction Value: $12B
Prometheus, Jeff Bezos' AI startup focused on building AI tools for physical product design, engineering, manufacturing, and drug design, has raised $12 billion in a new funding round at a $41 billion valuation — more than doubling its valuation from $6.2 billion at launch in November 2025. Co-led by Bezos and Stanford professor Vik Bajaj, the company is developing compute-intensive AI models for physical tasks and will use the majority of the new capital to acquire additional computing infrastructure, while continuing to recruit talent from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and NVIDIA.
- Transaction Date: 6/25/2026
- Industry: Software
- Type: Buyout/Private Equity
- Transaction Value: $8.4B
Clearwater Analytics has completed its $8.4 billion take-private acquisition by a Permira and Warburg Pincus-led investor group supported by Francisco Partners and Temasek, with shareholders receiving $24.55 per share in cash — a 47% premium to the company's undisturbed share price prior to deal reports. The transaction positions Clearwater, which serves over $10 trillion in assets globally across its cloud-native investment accounting and analytics platform, to accelerate its AI roadmap and agentic capabilities as a private company with greater flexibility to invest in a next-generation front-to-back institutional investment management solution.
- Transaction Date: 6/15/2026
- Industry: Software
- Type: Acquisition/Merger
- Transaction Value: $3.6B
Salesforce has agreed to acquire Fin, formerly Intercom, an AI customer agent platform serving more than 30,000 companies globally, for approximately $3.6 billion, adding Fin's proprietary Apex AI model and customer agent technology that resolves up to 76% of support volume end-to-end across live chat, email, WhatsApp, SMS, phone, and Slack. The deal complements Salesforce's Agentforce platform — which reached $1.2 billion in ARR in Q1 FY27, up 205% year-over-year — by adding fast-to-value deployment options particularly well-suited for SMB and commercial organizations looking to rapidly deploy autonomous customer service agents.
- Transaction Date: 6/23/2026
- Industry: Electronic Equipment & Instruments & Components
- Type: Acquisition/Merger
- Transaction Value: $1.9B
Energy Fuels has agreed to acquire Vacuumschmelze (VAC), a German advanced magnetics company with over 100 years of expertise and more than 400 patents, from Ara Partners for approximately $1.9 billion in cash and stock — comprising $718 million in cash and 65.85 million newly issued Energy Fuels shares — creating a fully integrated mine-to-magnet rare earth platform spanning upstream mining and separation through downstream permanent magnet manufacturing. The combination links Energy Fuels' REE mining and processing capabilities with VAC's world-class magnet production across North America, Europe, and Asia — including a state-of-the-art South Carolina facility scalable to 12,000 tonnes per annum — targeting a customer pipeline exceeding $2 billion in annual revenue across automotive, defense, robotics, and data center sectors, supported by a conditional $725 million U.S. government loan commitment.
- Transaction Date: 6/22/2026
- Industry: IT Services
- Type: Buyout/Private Equity
- Transaction Value: $1.8B
Reverence Capital Partners and co-investors have agreed to acquire a majority stake in Minneapolis-based accounting firm Eide Bailly at a valuation of approximately $1.8 billion, with the deal structured through an alternative practice structure that separates the non-audit business — which receives the PE investment — from the licensed CPA audit practice to comply with SEC and state independence rules. The transaction, expected to close in Q3 2026, will support Eide Bailly's accelerated AI adoption and technology investment as the 18th-largest U.S. accounting firm targets doubling its approximately $840 million in annual revenue over the next three to four years, continuing the wave of private equity investment that has now reached dozens of the top 100 U.S. accounting firms since 2021.
- Transaction Date: 6/22/2026
- Industry: Software
- Type: Growth Equity
- Transaction Value: $1.5B
Baseten, an AI inference company powering advanced AI applications for customers including Cursor, Clay, and Abridge, has raised $1.5 billion in a Series F led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction, and Spark Capital at valuations of $13 billion and $11 billion across two tranches, bringing total funding to over $2 billion. The raise reflects approximately 20x year-over-year revenue growth as the platform now processes over 1 billion inference calls daily across 87 clusters on 18 clouds, with capital earmarked for tripling headcount, compute expansion, and enterprise go-to-market as demand surges for custom post-trained model inference infrastructure.
- Transaction Date: 6/1/2026
- Industry: Electronic Equipment & Instruments & Components
- Type: Acquisition/Merger
- Transaction Value: $1.5B
Motorola Solutions has agreed to acquire D-Fend Solutions, an industry leader in counter-drone technology, for $1.5 billion, adding a field-proven non-kinetic RF cyber-takeover platform with thousands of deployments across more than 30 countries and expected 2026 revenues of $185 million following over 50% annual revenue growth for three consecutive years. The deal positions Motorola Solutions to capitalize on rapidly expanding airspace security demand — accelerated by the Safer Skies Act authorizing state and local law enforcement to mitigate drone threats — by combining D-Fend's drone override and redirection technology with Motorola's deep public safety, federal, and enterprise customer relationships.
- Transaction Date: 6/2/2026
- Industry: Electronic Equipment & Instruments & Components
- Type: Acquisition/Merger
- Transaction Value: $1.45B
ESAB Corporation has completed its acquisition of Eddyfi Technologies, a Quebec City-based global leader in advanced non-destructive inspection and monitoring technologies, for $1.45 billion, adding a business expected to generate approximately $270 million in 2026 revenue and $80 million in adjusted EBITDA with high-single-digit organic growth and gross margins exceeding 65%. The deal establishes ESAB as an unrivaled provider of complete workflow solutions spanning fabrication, inspection, and monitoring, expanding its total addressable market by approximately $5 billion and strengthening its exposure to high-growth end markets including aerospace and defense, nuclear, energy, and civil infrastructure with $20 million in identified run-rate synergies.
- Transaction Date: 6/22/2026
- Industry: Software
- Type: Growth Equity
- Transaction Value: $1B
AppsFlyer has announced strategic minority investments from Moloco, Google, Meta, and Unity — raising over $1 billion at a $2.7 billion valuation — to accelerate AI-powered ad measurement, cross-platform attribution, and agentic marketing workflows while maintaining its independence as a neutral measurement provider. The transaction combines shareholder liquidity with new strategic equity participation, with each investor receiving non-controlling, non-exclusive stakes and no preferential treatment in AppsFlyer's APIs or attribution logic, reinforcing the principle that trusted, independent measurement infrastructure must remain neutral as AI increasingly automates how advertising is bought and optimized across the digital ecosystem.
At Dakota, we understand how important it is to stay current on deal activity as it happens. That’s why our editorial team continuously monitors the news for real-time updates on platform investments, add-ons, divestitures, and more to deliver daily highlights straight to your inbox through our transactions newsletter.
Inside Dakota Marketplace, the transactions tab provides structured, filterable data with deal dates, types, sectors, and financials, allowing you to build a customized feed that aligns with your focus areas.
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