US tech big confirmed the October 2025 deal in a disclosure to the EU.
Kitchener-Waterloo-based database software program startup Kuzu has quietly signed a deal to be acquired by American know-how big Apple.
Apple confirmed the deal in a disclosure to the European Union (EU) that was first reported by AppleInsider yesterday. That submitting signifies that on Oct. 9, 2025, Apple struck an settlement to purchase all shares and rent choose workers of Kuzu, which develops “light-weight embedded database know-how,” by an unnamed subsidiary, however doesn’t share any additional particulars.
On Oct. 9, 2025, Apple struck an settlement to purchase all shares and rent choose workers of Kuzu.
In the meantime, Kuzu’s software program repository on Github was archived on Oct. 10 and, as of at present, the corporate’s web site is now not operational.
Apple hardly ever speaks publicly about its acquisitions. However the EU’s Digital Markets Act requires massive tech companies to reveal all meant mergers with different digital companies suppliers no matter whether or not they meet normal assessment thresholds.
BetaKit has reached out to Kuzu and Apple for extra particulars relating to the obvious acquisition and touch upon the rationale behind it.
Kuzu was based in 2023 by a gaggle together with former CEO Semih Salihoğlu, an affiliate professor of laptop science on the College of Waterloo. The startup had been creating quick, versatile graph databases. Kuzu’s LinkedIn web page known as the corporate “an embedded graph database constructed for question velocity, scalability, and [ease] of use.”
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Whereas Apple’s motivation for buying Kuzu stays unclear, as The Verge notes, the Silicon Valley firm may use Kuzu’s graph databases in its FileMaker Professional, Freeform, or iWork apps, or use it for social options in different apps like Apple Music or Apple Video games.
Apple already has across-platform relational database known as FileMaker, operated by subsidiary Claris, however as AppleInsider notes, the corporate has saved it at arm’s size from iWork to this point.
This seems to mark Apple’s second acquisition of a Kitchener-Waterloo startup since 2024, when it bought DarwinAI, which had developed a platform that applies AI to visible high quality inspection for producers.
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