15 Oct 2026 5 min read

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Hi, and welcome to a new edition of The Daily Dealflow — the 5-minute briefing that gives you clear context on capital flows and market-moving trends across the Americas, from Silicon Valley to Buenos Aires. Let's dive in.

🏆 Deal of the Day

Grupo Televisa and Fintech Holdings, the firm of Mexican businessman David Martínez, agreed to buy AT&T's Mexico business for $2B. The buyers will form a joint venture funded with available cash and non-recourse guaranteed debt – Bloomberg Línea.

Positive Context:

AT&T Mexico had about 24.7M mobile subscribers at the end of 2025, and Televisa adds a fixed broadband business, so the pairing joins mobile and home internet.
Fintech Holdings brings fresh capital and experience in Mexican mobile telephony, according to AT&T.

Yes, but:

The deal needs regulatory approvals and is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027
Neither the ownership split between Televisa and Fintech Holdings nor the cash-to-debt mix has been disclosed.

Zoom in: AT&T Mexico's 2025 operating profit was under 2% of its revenue (MXN 1.4B on MXN 85.4B), so the buyers are paying for scale and subscribers more than for current margins.

💰 Venture Capital

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Reach Security (US) – over $50M, Series B, San Francisco AI platform that reads the live configuration of a company's existing security tools, checks whether an exploit path is blocked or still open, and fixes protection drift. Top Tier Capital Partners led, with Ballistic Ventures, In-Q-Tel, M12 and Microsoft's venture fund joining. CEO Garrett Hamilton says the customer base doubled in the past 12 months, and the money goes to enterprise and federal growth – FinSMEs.

Scanntech (Uruguay) – $180M, Series F, for retail sales analytics. Founded by Raúl Polakof, Benny Szylkowski, and Soledad Fernández; backed by co-leads L Catterton and Partners Group, plus Bradesco and SPX. Its journey began turning computers into neighborhood-store cash registers. – The Investor Society.

Altay Therapeutics (US) – $37M, Series A, San Carlos biotech that uses AI modeling to find small molecules that block transcription factors once considered undruggable. Sound Bioventures and HealthCap co-led, with Fountain Healthcare Partners, Biogen New Ventures, Pappas Capital and Global BioAccess Fund. CEO James Breitmeyer and founder Ali Ozes will take the lead candidate, DX5057 for the muscular dystrophy FSHD, through Phase 1 and Phase 2 trials – FinSMEs.

Isengard Industries (US) – undisclosed amount, seed, St. Petersburg, Florida maker of AI-guided strike drones and precision munitions. The round came through Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch, with Robinhood Ventures Fund II, Backswing Ventures, Sterling Road and A3 Management Group. CEO Francisco Serra-Martins, a former Australian Army combat engineer, says three of the company's five aircraft are already fielded against Russian forces, and about $10M in revenue is booked. The target of 3,000 airframes a month is still a target – Dealroom.

Has President Donald Trump been good for American innovation? His administration has championed some cutting-edge industries such as semiconductors and artificial intelligence. But Mr Trump has also attacked the country’s leading universities, restricted high-skilled immigration and cut funding to public institutions that support research. The overall effect on American ingenuity is hard to track. One place to look for clues is the Global Innovation Index, published each year by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). It ranks 139 economies based on 79 indicators, from R&D spending to school test scores. Source: The Economist.

🏛️ Private Equity

Getty Images (US) – Up to $533M, take-private restructuring through planned Chapter 11, for the photo-and-video licensing platform. Koch Equity Development and Getty family affiliates would take full ownership after its $3.7B Shutterstock merger unraveled—an expensive picture to retake. – The Investor Society.

Valley National Bank / BlueVine (US) – $340M, acquisition of a fintech by a bank. Valley, based in New Jersey, buys a digital banking platform for small businesses that has been built over more than a decade, and wants its customer-acquisition engine and talent as much as its deposits. BlueVine had raised $328M as a private company, so the price is slightly above its funding total. The deal is expected to close in early 2027 – Dealroom.

Gryphon Investors / Vivify Specialty Ingredients and AuNutra (US) – undisclosed price, add-on acquisition by a private equity portfolio company. Vivify, which makes colorants and specialty ingredients, buys the Chino, California supplier of botanical extracts and nutritional ingredients to expand into supplements. AuNutra founder Kava Liu stays on as a significant investor, and Gryphon manages more than $10B in assets – Business Wire.

Nippur and Beacon / Metrotel (Argentina) – undisclosed price, 51/49 acquisition. Nippur Fiber Holding takes 51% and the U.S. fund Beacon takes 49% from sellers Blackstone and Riverwood Capital, with Banco Itaú supporting the financing. Metrotel is set to take on about 6M mobile customers that Telecom Argentina must divest after buying Telefónica, and it is negotiating to use the Tuenti brand. Nippur's backers include Luis María Blaquier, formerly of Arcor, plus TGS and Banco Macro – Dealroom.

📈 Public & Capital Markets

Closing Market Figures, Wed 14 Oct, 2026.

Copart (Nasdaq: CPRT) and ACV Auctions (NYSE: ACVA) – tender offer, used-vehicle auctions. The antitrust waiting period for Copart's $10.50-per-share cash offer for ACV expired on October 13. The offer expires at 5:00 p.m. ET on October 15 and still needs more than 50% of ACV's shares to be tendered – Business Wire.

Bank of America, BlackRock, State Street, Progressive and Dell (NYSE) – earnings and analyst movers. Bank of America fell after regulators fined it more than $1.2B over anti-money-laundering failures and its third-quarter profit missed estimates. BlackRock beat on profit and revenue, while State Street dropped 7.6% on a revenue miss and Progressive fell 8.0%. Dell lost 8.3% after a Barclays downgrade – TheStreet.

Alaunos Therapeutics (US) – about $350M, private placement (PIPE), healthcare. Fairmount led, with Venrock Healthcare Capital Partners, T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Wellington Management, Janus Henderson, BB Biotech and Perceptive Advisors. Common shares were priced at $1.4357, and the round was expected to close on October 14. Dealroom's data puts it in the 98th percentile of all-time U.S. health-sector private placements – Dealroom.

📅 ICYMI

Tired of typing with chatbots? Palo Alto-based Sabi is developing a mind-reading baseball cap that lets wearers communicate with AI agents just by thinking — no typing, talking, or implants required. The prototype uses 100k sensors to capture brain activity — even through hair — and uses hours of neural data to interpret the meaning behind thoughts. Might sound like a harebrained madcap idea, but investors are on board, including Vinod Khosla, with $50m in seed funding.

Netflix grabbed the Spanish rights to the 2030’s World Cup, the streamer’s first foray into the major soccer tournament.

Eluum launched MyLifeStory, an AI-powered app that brings together a user’s photos, videos, locations, and social posts from across platforms and devices, building a “human memory layer” for social media.

See you tomorrow,

Jose Kont
The human behind The Investor Society.