M&A: The art of the deal

The Tech Panda takes a look at recent mergers and acquisitions within various tech ecosystems and what that means for industry.

Teleport Gets Acquired by StampMyVisa

StampMyVisa, Indian B2B visa platform acquired Teleport, a new-age travel tech startup having significant presence in South India and backed by top Indian startup founders including Kunal Shah (CRED), Vidit Aatrey (Meesho), and Phanindra Sama (RedBus).

Nikita Dresswala, Founder, Teleport, added, “We built Teleport to reimagine global travel for new-age independent Indian explorers. In StampMyVisa, we’ve found the right partner to scale this mission. With their B2B muscle and deep visa expertise, we’re set to create the most seamless and trusted visa experience in the country.”

This strategic acquisition marks a significant milestone in SMV’s mission to simplify and scale visa services across India and Southeast Asia — combining Teleport’s digital-first, Young travelers focussed product DNA with StampMyVisa’s operational strength and B2B depth.

Aurionpro Acquires Melbourne-based InfraRisk

Aurionpro Solutions Limited (BSE: 532668) (NSE: AURIONPRO), a provider of technology solutions for the financial services industry, announced its acquisition of InfraRisk, a software firm specializing in lending solutions for banks and financial institutions. This strategic acquisition strengthens Aurionpro’s Integro lending suite to expand both its functionality and its geographic footprint in Australia and Europe.

“Aurionpro and InfraRisk share a common vision of becoming the partner of choice for banks and financial institutions in enabling their lending and leasing workflows,” stated Ashish Rai, Group CEO of Aurionpro. “This acquisition is not just about expanding our Integro portfolio and reach; it’s about synergistically merging our strengths—InfraRisk’s extensive expertise in specialized and digital lending with Aurionpro’s robust corporate and retail lending solutions. This collaboration allows us to offer a unique, comprehensive portfolio of lending solutions across the banking and non-banking sectors. We are excited to explore the global potential this combination unlocks for our clients and to reinforce Aurionpro’s expansion into Europe and stepping confidently into new markets like Australia,” he added.

This acquisition allows Aurionpro to continue its geographical expansion into Australia, a key strategic market for the wider Banking as well as TIG segments, by leveraging InfraRisk’s experience of over 15 years in partnering with financial institutions undertaking transformations for their lending operations.

Cloudera Acquires Taikun

Cloudera, the data and AI platform company announced its acquisition of Taikun, a platform provider for managing Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. With this move, Cloudera accelerates the deployment and delivery of the complete Cloudera platform, including Data Services and AI anywhere – from the public clouds to on-prem data centers to sovereign and air-gapped environments – all through a unified control plane.

“This acquisition marks a pivotal step in our mission to bring the cloud experience wherever enterprise data resides,” said Charles Sansbury, CEO, Cloudera. “By integrating Taikun’s container-native platform in our stack, we are removing operational barriers and enabling our customers to unlock faster insights, make smarter decisions, and drive real-time action in every corner of their business.”

This marks Cloudera’s third strategic acquisition in just 14 months, following the purchase of Verta’s operational AI platform in May 2024 and Octopai’s data lineage and catalog solution in November 2024. These strategic acquisitions reflect Cloudera’s continued investment in strengthening its platform, ensuring customers have the flexibility to run data and AI workloads wherever it makes the most sense, without compromise.

Lissun Acquires US Based Being Cares Inc

Lissun, Indian mental health platform announced the acquisition of US-based mental wellbeing startup Being Cares Inc, a move that strengthens LISSUN’s mission to transform mental health access for families across India. Known for creating the “Google Maps of Mental Health” and serving nearly one million users globally, Being was awarded Google’s Best App for Good. As part of this acquisition, LISSUN has welcomed the entire Being team into its fold and acquired the intellectual property rights of its technology, bringing both expertise and innovation under one roof.

Tarun Gupta, Co-Founder, LISSUN said, “This is not just an acquisition. It marks the beginning of a complete reimagining of how mental healthcare can support entire families. At LISSUN, we have demonstrated our ability to provide effective, high-quality developmental care for children through our Sunshine by Lissun centers. With Being’s AI and our clinical expertise, we are building a system that addresses families’ concerns from the very first signs, offers digital guidance, and seamlessly transitions into in-person care when needed. We are designing an end-to-end support journey where technology, empathy, and clinical excellence work together to serve every child and their family with compassion and precision.”

This strategic integration aims to merge authentic intelligence, LISSUN’s core strength in therapist-led interventions, with artificial intelligence through Being’s intelligent mental health mapping model. Already capable of decoding more than 40 conditions, including anxiety, depression, burnout, and parenting stress, Being’s intelligent mental health mapping model processes over 2,500 causes and real-world effects, offering hyper-personalized guidance. LISSUN is now extending this map to child-centric concerns such as autism, ADHD, speech delays, learning challenges and many more. This ensures that the same AI which supports a parent’s emotional challenges can also help decode a child’s developmental or behavioural struggles, allowing one intelligent system to grow with families through every stage.

NIIT MTS Acquires MST Group

NIIT Learning Systems Limited [NIIT Managed Training Services (NIIT MTS)], a managed learning services company, completed the acquisition of Munich, Germany-based MST Group, a managed learning services company in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The company was acquired through NIIT MTS’ wholly owned subsidiary NIIT (Ireland) Limited for Euro 22.37 million, subject to certain adjustments as per the terms of the definitive agreements.

“MST Group is a significant addition to NIIT MTS’ family and marks a major next step in our global expansion strategy. Together, we’re setting out to reshape how companies achieve learning effectiveness at scale through future-ready managed learning services platforms” said Vijay K. Thadani, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, NIIT MTS.

The transaction expands NIIT MTS’ presence in Europe’s fastest-growing region and increases market penetration in the automotive and industrial market segments while strengthening its portfolio of managed learning services with the addition of QuickStart Learning Academy capabilities. The addition of Hungary as a nearshore capability centre for Western Europe will improve NIIT MTS’ capability to offer onsite, multilingual services to its global clients.

1Point1 Acquires TECHSCIENT.AI

One Point One Solutions Ltd. (1Point1), a publicly listed company in Business Process Management (BPM) and digital transformation services, announced the acquisition of a majority stake in TECHSCIENT.AI PRIVATE LIMITED, a next-generation AI-powered no-code automation firm specialising in autonomous software engineering. The strategic acquisition strengthens 1Point1’s AI-led automation capabilities and positions it as a key player in India’s digital transformation landscape.

“With this acquisition, 1Point1 enhances its strategic focus on AI-powered transformation,” said Akshay Chhabra, Promoter & Director, 1Point1. “TECHSCIENT.AI’s autonomous AI capabilities represent a pioneering shift in BPM. By integrating their advanced solutions into our ecosystem, we are enabling enterprises to automate complex operations, optimise costs, and scale at unprecedented speed.”