While SpaceX’s $60 billion acquisition of Anysphere dominates the headlines, a number of other multibillion-dollar transactions have also closed this year. We take a look at the 10 largest M&A deals so far in 2026.
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The SpaceX offering caps a remarkable journey for a company that has raised nearly $12 billion in private investment since its founding in 2002 to...
A public SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic would become some of the best-capitalized acquirers on the planet, writes MGV's Marc Schröder, who explains...
Not only is a round of $100 million not remarkably large anymore, it’s not even atypical.
The semiconductor startup space continues to sizzle. So far in 2026, investors have poured around $10 billion into seed through pre-IPO rounds for...


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