Bristol-founded haptics platform developer Ultrahaptics is set to absorb Leap Motion's patents and employees, succeeding in a transaction that Apple failed to complete twice.

A member of NYU's Future Labs incubator network, virtual receptionist developer Bowtie.ai has been acquired by wellness services software developer Mindbody.

Pfizer will pay $340m upfront and up to an additional $470m in milestone payments to purchase its portfolio company Therachon, providing an exit to Inserm Transfert Initiative.

OpenTable will offer Venga's customer analytics software to its restaurant clients following the acquisition, which will allow Big Red Ventures to exit.

Hannover Medical School chip cytometry spinout Zelkraftwerk has been bought by Canopy Biosciences, providing an exit for tech transfer company Ascenion.

Cirtemo, which incorporated University of South Carolina-born MagAssemble, has been acquired by Thorlabs for an unspecified amount.

Edtech provider Renaissance has bought UM's early years education assessment provider Early Learning Labs, vindicating twenty years of government-funded research.

Walmart has stepped up to acquire SkyDeck alumnus advertisement platform Polymorph Labs after the latter had raised $10.5m in funding.

University of Washington cancer diagnostics spinout Bellwether Bio has been acquired by Guardant Health, which plans to integrate the former's expertise to advance its own pipeline.

Gyroscope Therapeutics, spun out of Cambridge and Syncona, has merged with Orbit Biomedical to form a fully-integrated retinal gene therapy developer.