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Personio is acquiring Berlin expense management startup Circula, expanding its HR and payroll platform to include travel expenses, company cards, and employee benefits. Circula brings over 3,000 corporate clients and 250,000 users.

More than 1,400 charge points at over 230 locations: By investing in Groen-Eco, Munich startup Qwello expands its presence in the Netherlands.

beglaubigt.de acquires registercheck.de, gaining access to around five million company records and 28 million registry documents.

Munich ESG startup Code Gaia is becoming the follow-on solution for software provider Global Climate’s clients, also taking over their historical sustainability data. Behind the move is House of Gaia, which now serves more than 630 clients and aims to expand its position in the consolidating market for ESG and compliance software.

Onyo and Designfunktion are pooling their expertise. The merger aims to bring office and homeoffice solutions closer together in the future. As part of the strategic partnership, the Furnable platform becomes part of Onyo.

With the acquisition of Firma.de, Openlaw expands its notary network and customer base. Integration is expected to be completed within two months.

French-American legaltech company DeepIP is acquiring Munich-based patent software specialist Patentmaker. The merger creates an AI platform for the entire patent lifecycle, which is already used by more than 400 organizations worldwide and will establish its German headquarters in Munich.

Walk through any supermarket and you can’t miss Yfood anymore. Now comes a major change that transforms the Munich startup into a global corporate brand: Nestlé is acquiring Yfood.

Celonis acquires Ikigai Labs and expands its partnership with Coupa. The Munich-based software decacorn is thus expanding its platform with forecasting, AI-driven process control, and decision intelligence.

Personio has achieved profitability for the first time and is acquiring Munich-based recruiting AI startup Aurio. The HR software provider aims to expand its AI capabilities for candidate search and applicant screening. The company now has 16,000 customers and manages 1.5 million employees.

Rocket Lab has completed the acquisition of Munich-based Mynaric AG, spending a total of approximately 131 million euros (155 million dollars) in the form of a nominal cash payment plus 2,277,002 Rocket Lab shares. For the space market, the deal is significant because Rocket Lab is bringing in-house a technology that was previously scarce and difficult to obtain, while simultaneously establishing its first European location in Munich.

Munich-based biotech unicorn Tubulis is being acquired by US company Gilead for a multibillion-euro amount.