The private company data space is vast, fragmented, and often overwhelming. Deal sourcing teams are faced with endless streams of announcements, filings, atSnd rumors, making it difficult to pinpoint the transactions that actually matter.
That’s why inside Dakota Marketplace, we’ve zeroed in on this space. We’ve created a centralized resource where deal sourcers can easily find and track the exact deals they’re looking for.
In this article, we’ve curated 10 top transactions from last week that stood out in the marketplace and signal key trends shaping the deal landscape. By the end of this, you’ll have a better understanding of these deals.
- Transaction Date: 6/15/2026
- Type: Acquisition/Merger
- Sector: Information Technology
- Transaction Value: $3.6B
- Participants: Salesforce
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: 6/15/2026
- Type: Buyout/Private Equity
- Sector: Industrials
- Transaction Value: $2.75B
- Participants: Nuvei
Nuvei has agreed to acquire Payoneer for approximately $2.75 billion at $7.40 per share in cash, combining Nuvei's payment acceptance capabilities with Payoneer's cross-border payouts, multi-currency accounts, and same-day settlement network spanning more than 150 markets to create a unified global financial infrastructure platform. The deal strengthens Nuvei's position across leading digital commerce platforms including Amazon, eBay, Walmart, Airbnb, and Shopify, while adding Payoneer's established regulatory footprint across major jurisdictions — including online payment licensing in mainland China and authorization in principle in India — to support emerging financial models including agentic commerce and stablecoin payments.
- Transaction Date: 6/15/2026
- Type: Acquisition/Merger
- Sector: Industrials
- Transaction Value: $1.76B
- Participants: Kesko
Kesko has agreed to acquire Dahl's technical trade operations in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark from Saint-Gobain for €1.2 billion debt-free (€1.518 billion including lease commitments), adding a leading Nordic HVAC and infrastructure construction distributor with approximately €2.1 billion in combined 2025 net sales, 190 stores, and over 70,000 B2B customers across the three markets. The deal — the largest in Kesko's history — will make building and technical trade Kesko's biggest division and accelerates its target of reaching approximately €20 billion in Group net sales by the early 2030s, with Dahl's established brands continuing to operate independently following a light integration approach.
- Transaction Date: 6/17/2026
- Type: Venture
- Sector: Information Technology
- Transaction Value: $485M
- Participants: N/A
Genspark.ai, the all-in-one AI workspace company, has closed a $100 million Series B extension at a $2.6 billion post-money valuation — up from $1.6 billion in March — bringing total Series B funding to $485 million and total funding to $645 million, backed by Sozo Ventures, Korea Mirae Asset, and UpHonest Capital. The extension follows extraordinary growth from $0 to $250 million ARR within 12 months and over 6,000 business clients in six months, with the company simultaneously launching AgentBase, a new agent platform designed to replace legacy SaaS tools by enabling enterprises to build AI-native custom databases, dashboards, and internal systems from their own data.
- Transaction Date: 6/15/2026
- Type: Growth Equity
- Sector: Health Care
- Transaction Value: $327M
- Participants: N/A
Prime Radiant Partners, a newly launched middle-market healthcare and life sciences private equity advisory firm, has made a $50 million growth equity investment in Cellares, the first Integrated Development and Manufacturing Organization (IDMO) for cell therapy, as its inaugural investment. Cellares' fully automated Cell Shuttle platform delivers up to 10x more cell therapy batches than conventional CDMOs with comparable footprint and headcount — and has received the FDA's Advanced Manufacturing Technology designation — positioning the company to disrupt the traditional CDMO model as it expands its global network of Smart Factories across the U.S., Europe, and Japan.
- Transaction Date: 6/16/2026
- Type: Real Assets
- Sector: Real Estate
- Transaction Value: $110M
- Participants: Elliott Management Corporation
Entities affiliated with Paul Singer's Elliott Investment Management and London-based Lifestyle Hospitality Capital Group have acquired the Mayfair House Hotel & Garden in Coconut Grove, Miami for approximately $110 million, adding a 179-room architectural landmark originally designed by Kenneth Treister to their growing South Florida hospitality portfolio. The acquisition, which includes the hotel business, furnishings, branding, and operational assets, comes with approximately $79 million in total financing and reflects the continued migration of major institutional capital into Miami's Coconut Grove neighborhood as a high-demand luxury real estate market.
- Transaction Date: 6/15/2026
- Type: Venture
- Sector: Information Technology
- Transaction Value: $21M
- Participants: N/A
Orbio, a Spanish AI workforce management platform, has raised a $21 million Series A led by Dawn Capital to scale its AI agent suite for frontline and deskless workers across hiring, onboarding, engagement, and retention for industries including healthcare, retail, warehousing, hospitality, and logistics. The platform already serves global enterprise customers including YUM! Brands and The Stepping Stones Group, where it has improved candidate-to-hire conversion by 20% and increased interview booking rates from 65% to 85%, addressing a largely underserved market of 2.7 billion frontline workers whose workforce management has historically relied on fragmented manual processes.
- Transaction Date: 6/15/2026
- Type: Venture
- Sector: Industrials
- Transaction Value: $18M
- Participants: N/A
Podium Automation, a Brooklyn-based industrial control panel manufacturer, has raised $18 million in a Series A led by Construct Capital with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, bringing total funding to over $23 million to scale manufacturing capacity and meet growing demand for quick-turn control panels. The company's software-enabled process cuts traditional lead times from 12+ weeks to under 4 weeks by replacing hand-drawn schematics with digital models, automating fabrication, and intelligently selecting electrical components — modernizing a foundational industrial category that has remained largely unchanged for decades.
- Transaction Date: 6/15/2026
- Type: Venture
- Sector: Health Care
- Transaction Value: $7.3M
- Participants: N/A
Zumutor Biologics has raised $7.3 million in a Pre-Series B round from existing investors Accel and Bharat Innovation Fund alongside new investors Premji Invest, Ashish Kacholia, and Raj Dandu Family Office, to advance its lead NK cell checkpoint therapy ZM008 through ongoing Phase 1 clinical trials and into Phase 1B expansion cohorts and global Phase 2 studies. The Bengaluru-based immuno-oncology company is developing ZM008 as a first-in-class natural killer cell checkpoint inhibitor targeting hard-to-treat tumor types, with encouraging early clinical signals supporting its broader combination study program across multiple cancer indications.
- Transaction Date: 6/15/2026
- Type: Venture
- Sector: Health Care
- Transaction Value: $6.95M
- Participants: N/A
CollimateHealth, a Munich-based life sciences startup, has raised €6 million in seed funding from VP Venture Partners, Positron, XISTA Science Ventures, High-Tech Gründerfonds, and caesar to expand operations and advance development of its clinically scalable microbeam radiation therapy platform for cancer treatment. The company's technology delivers extremely narrow radiation beams in the micrometer range at significantly higher doses than conventional radiation therapy, offering a differentiated approach to treating cancer with the potential for improved clinical outcomes.
At Dakota, we understand how important it is to stay current on deal activity as it happens. That’s why our editorial team is constantly monitoring the news for real-time updates on platform investments, add-ons, divestitures, and more. Each day, we deliver these highlights directly to your inbox through our transactions newsletter.
Inside Dakota Marketplace, the transactions tab gives you access to structured, filterable data complete with dates, deal structure, sectors, and financials, so you can build a feed tailored to your specific interests.
Whether you're evaluating a new investment opportunity or tracking trends in a target sector or segment, Dakota Marketplace helps you cut through the noise and focus on what matters most.
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