AI acquirers bought 458 AI-native startups since 2024, with 2026 on record pace at 202 deals by late September

Asked:

“Make a table of AI-Native startups that were acquired after January 1st 2024.”

A live-web scan found 458 candidate whole-company acquisitions of AI-native startups announced from January 1, 2024 through September 20, 2026 — a researched working dataset, not a complete global census. 215 deals are corroborated by two or more pages, and 158 carry a source-reported transaction value; values are quoted as reported, with currencies and qualifiers such as “about” left intact.

Acquisitions by year of announcement

corroborated by 2+ pages single-page candidates deals with a reported value

OpenAI is the most frequent acquirer with 16 startups bought since 2024, including Glass Imaging for “more than $300 million” — techfundingnews.com

The largest reported deal in the set is Nvidia’s announced purchase of Hugging Face at a “reported $13 billion” — techcrunch.com

261 of the 458 candidate deals are marked completed and 196 announced; one row lacks a stated status — techcrunch.com

2026 already shows the highest share of multi-page corroboration: 88 of 202 deals, versus 62 of 134 in 2024 — news.crunchbase.com

All 458 candidate acquisitions

Startup ▲▼	Acquirer ▲▼	Announced ▲▼	Reported value ▲▼	Status ▲▼	Pages ▲▼	AI-native focus	Source

Rows with a blue edge are corroborated by two or more pages. Reported values are source-reported text, not normalized figures. Every row links its source page.

Method: live-web scan of whole-company acquisitions of AI-native startups (core product depends on AI/ML, generative AI, computer vision, autonomous agents, or AI security) announced 2024-01-01 to 2026-09-20. 458 candidate rows, one per acquired startup; 215 corroborated by 2+ pages; 158 with a source-reported value quoted verbatim, undisclosed left blank. Dates are announcement dates where stated, otherwise publication timing. Acqui-hires, minority stakes, investments and licensing excluded. Annual totals come from precomputed aggregates. Working dataset, not a complete census; source quality varies. Long focus descriptions truncated for space.

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