Tech M&A Weekly Roundup
May 15, 2026
This week in Tech M&A, several transactions stood out across enterprise data, finance automation, connectivity infrastructure, digital infrastructure services, and a couple of larger market-moving deals:
- Black Box completed its acquisition of 2S Inovações Tecnológicas, expanding its Latin American footprint and adding digital infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, and managed services capability in Brazil.
- Inseego announced it will acquire Nokia’s Fixed Wireless Access business, consolidating FWA hardware, software, and customer relationships under a more focused connectivity specialist.
- Everpure completed its acquisition of 1touch, adding data intelligence and orchestration capabilities to strengthen its position in AI-era data management.
- SAP completed its acquisition of Reltio, reinforcing its push around AI-ready enterprise data and master data management across SAP and non-SAP environments.
- Coupa acquired Rossum, bringing AI-first intelligent document processing deeper into source-to-pay and accounts payable workflows.
- Sony Music agreed to acquire Blackstone’s Recognition music rights portfolio for nearly $4bn, another major move in cashflow-driven IP consolidation.
- Western Midstream announced a $1.6bn acquisition of Brazos Delaware, expanding its scale and processing capacity in Permian infrastructure.
What matters: buyers continue to prioritize assets that improve control over data, automate critical workflows, and deepen infrastructure relevance. Even across different sectors, the pattern is consistent: strategic value is concentrating around platforms that can own more of the operating stack.
For CEOs, founders, and investors, that reinforces the importance of building businesses with strong integration value, workflow relevance, and clear strategic fit inside a larger platform roadmap.