AI & Machine Learning Acquisitions in 2023

BYTE Acquisition Corp. completed a business combination with Airship AI, and the combined company began trading on Nasdaq under ticker AISP on December 22, 2023. The transaction valued Airship AI at a pre-money equity value of approximately $225 million and positions the company to accelerate growth—backed by a visible pipeline including $10.9 million in DHS contracts.

Funds managed by Carlyle and Insight Partners will make a majority investment in Exiger, a McLean, Virginia–based AI-driven supply chain and third‑party risk management SaaS company. Management, founders and existing investor Carrick Capital Partners are reinvesting equity; the investment will be used to accelerate product innovation, scale the 1Exiger AI platform, and expand customer engagement across government and commercial markets.

Rithum (formerly CommerceHub) has acquired AI startup Cadeera to accelerate its AI-powered search and product discovery capabilities across its commerce platform. The acquisition is intended to infuse multimodal AI (computer vision, language processing, and machine learning) into Rithum’s product onboarding, search, and discovery features to drive faster time-to-market and operational efficiencies for brands and retailers.

SoundHound AI has agreed to acquire SYNQ3 Restaurant Solutions for aggregate consideration of $25 million (approx. 20% cash, 80% SoundHound Class A stock) with up to $4 million of additional consideration payable over three years subject to revenue targets. The acquisition expands SoundHound's voice and conversational AI footprint in restaurants — adding over 10,000 signed locations, deepening relationships with major chains, and accelerating deployment of generative voice AI products across the restaurant industry.

AppsFlyer has acquired oolo, an AI-powered user acquisition and monetization decision-making platform, and will operate it as "oolo by AppsFlyer." The acquisition expands AppsFlyer's AI-driven analytics and monitoring capabilities and will integrate oolo into AppsFlyer's Privacy Cloud Marketplace to provide real-time, privacy-preserving insights for marketing, growth and monetization teams.

reAlpha Tech Corp. (Nasdaq: AIRE) announced definitive agreements on December 4, 2023 to acquire Naamche (Naamche, Inc. and Naamche, Inc. Pvt. Ltd.) to add AI/ML, data engineering and cross-platform development capabilities. The deal — including a combination of cash and equity consideration and later closed in May 2024 — brings a ~25-person product and engineering team led by founder Ramesh Pathak into reAlpha to accelerate development of real-estate focused AI solutions.

Cyara has acquired conversational AI testing company QBox to expand its chatbot and voicebot testing, monitoring, and NLP validation capabilities. The deal integrates QBox’s NLP-driven testing platform into Cyara’s AI-powered CX Assurance suite to strengthen conversational AI optimization for enterprise customers.

Research Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSSS) has acquired scite, a Brooklyn-based AI-powered research discovery platform known for its Smart Citations. The deal adds scite's ~21,000 active B2C subscribers and $3.6M of annualized subscription value to Research Solutions' product suite, enabling cross-sell opportunities across academic, corporate and government research customers.

Hightouch has acquired HeadsUp, an AI-driven conversion engine, and will integrate HeadsUp’s ML models into its Composable Customer Data Platform to build warehouse-native Customer 360 profiles and predictive conversion signals. HeadsUp co-founder and CEO Earl Lee will join Hightouch to lead AI/ML-driven Customer 360 development, expanding Hightouch’s capabilities for marketing, advertising, and operations use cases.

Airbnb has acquired GamePlanner.AI, a stealth AI startup led by Adam Cheyer and Siamak Hodjat, bringing a roughly 12-person team onto Airbnb’s AI efforts. The team will accelerate select AI projects and integrate GamePlanner.AI’s tools into Airbnb’s platform to enhance AI-driven interfaces and experiences.

Mondee Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: MOND) completed an all-stock acquisition of Purplegrids, a Silicon Valley AI company, on November 13. The deal brings Purplegrids' enterprise AI platform and team (50+ employees) into Mondee to accelerate AI capabilities and vertically integrate generative AI across Mondee's travel technology platforms, including its Abhi assistant.

BigBear.ai has signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire Pangiam (Pangiam Intermediate Holdings, LLC) in an all-stock transaction valued at roughly $70 million, expected to close in Q1 2024. The deal combines Pangiam's facial recognition and biometric capabilities with BigBear.ai's computer vision and AI analytics to create a comprehensive Vision AI portfolio and expand the combined company's customer base into airlines, airports, identity-verification firms and additional U.S. government contracts.

Tyler Technologies has acquired ARInspect, a Fairfax, Virginia–based provider of AI-powered machine learning solutions for public sector field operations. Tyler will integrate ARInspect's intelligent edge platform into its Application Platform and deploy the technology across state and federal verticals (including environmental protection, disaster recovery, and human services).

PSG, a growth equity firm, led a strategic growth investment in AirWorks to fund product innovation, accelerate market penetration, and expand go-to-market and partner capabilities. PSG's Adam Marcus will join AirWorks' board, and existing investors also participated in the round.

Capital A (Capital A Investment Partners) has acquired a majority stake in ARVOO Imaging Products to fund the company’s next growth phase and support international expansion. ARVOO’s management (CEO Fons Grijpink and CTO René Voorwinden) remain in operational control while Capital A will act as a sponsor to accelerate globalization and pursue a selective buy-and-build strategy.

Pamlico Capital has made a strategic growth investment in InRule Technology, an intelligence automation company that provides decisioning, machine learning and process automation software for enterprise customers. Terms were not disclosed; the backing will help InRule accelerate product delivery and expand its intelligence automation offerings following recent growth and prior acquisitions, and marks the culmination of a partnership with prior investor OpenGate Capital.

AMD has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Nod.ai, an open-source AI compiler and code-generation software specialist, to advance AMD's open AI software ecosystem and optimize AI models for AMD accelerators and processors. The deal brings Nod.ai's team and SHARK/Torch-MLIR/OpenXLA expertise into AMD to accelerate deployment of high-performance AI solutions across cloud, edge and endpoint platforms.

Stanley Capital Partners has joined existing investor MML Capital Partners in a growth investment in Roboyo, the market-leading hyper-automation consultancy. The capital will support Roboyo’s international expansion and consolidation strategy as it continues to scale its AI-powered automation services across enterprise clients.

ToolsGroup has acquired Evo, an AI/ML provider of pricing and inventory prescriptive analytics, to integrate Evo's responsive AI, quantum learning, and advanced prescriptive capabilities into ToolsGroup’s SO99+ and JustEnough supply chain and price optimization suites. The acquisition strengthens ToolsGroup’s dynamic planning and price-optimization capabilities and is supported by ToolsGroup’s private-equity backer Accel‑KKR.

Acceldata has acquired Bewgle to extend its enterprise data observability platform into AI and large language model (LLM) pipelines. Bewgle's founders, Ganga Kumar and Shan Shah, will lead Acceldata's AI team as the company integrates Bewgle's NLP and AI capabilities to improve data quality and reduce AI-related risk for enterprise customers.

Computer Modelling Group Ltd. (CMG) acquired Bluware-Headwave Ventures Inc., a cloud-native AI and deep-learning software and services provider for subsurface decision-making, from majority owner EV Private Equity. CMG paid US$22 million with an additional earn-out of up to US$8 million; Bluware reported approximately US$23.5 million revenue in its most recent fiscal year and provides the InteractivAI product and proprietary VDS data format for seismic data.

LimeWire has acquired AI image-generation platform BlueWillow, bringing BlueWillow's proprietary text-to-image and image-to-image models and a community of over 2.3 million users into LimeWire's creator-focused product suite. The deal will integrate BlueWillow's generative-AI capabilities into LimeWire AI Studio to expand creator tools, enable ownership and monetization of generated content, and accelerate LimeWire's move into generative AI-enabled creator services.

Elixirr has acquired Responsum, a generative AI and large-language-model acceleration platform founded in Austin, Texas, to strengthen its AI and digital capabilities. The acquisition brings Responsum's technical expertise and platform into Elixirr's consulting offering to accelerate client deployments of generative AI across sales, support and executive analytics use cases.

Aspirion, a Columbus, Georgia-based technology-enabled healthcare revenue cycle management provider, has acquired Infinia ML, an AI and machine learning company focused on intelligent document processing. The acquisition makes Infinia ML Aspirion’s R&D engine to accelerate AI-driven automation and improve revenue cycle outcomes for healthcare provider clients.

ActiveFence has acquired Spectrum Labs, a provider of contextual AI for text-based content moderation, to expand its Trust & Safety offering. The acquisition integrates Spectrum Labs' natural language AI with ActiveFence's detection platform to improve harmful-content recognition and protection for global online platforms.

Logility, a provider of cloud-based prescriptive supply chain planning solutions and subsidiary of American Software, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Garvis, an Antwerp-based AI-native demand forecasting SaaS startup. Garvis’ DemandAI+ will be embedded into Logility’s Digital Supply Chain Platform to add generative-AI and ML-driven demand forecasting capabilities and accelerate supply chain planning accuracy and automation.

Volaris Group (an operating group of Constellation Software Inc.) has acquired RAF Technology, a developer of AI-driven pattern recognition and data-capture software used by postal, courier and logistics companies. RAF will continue to operate independently under General Manager David Reeves and will leverage Volaris' operating approach and community to expand its product and customer footprint globally.

IFS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Falkonry, a California-based industrial AI software company that provides automated time-series anomaly detection and operational insights for manufacturing and defense customers. The acquisition adds Falkonry's self-learning anomaly detection to IFS's cloud enterprise suite, expanding IFS's AI capabilities across ERP, EAM, FSM and related products; the deal is expected to close in Q4 2023.

Engageware, a Clearhaven Partners-backed customer engagement SaaS platform, has acquired Aivo, an Argentina-founded conversational and generative AI provider. The deal expands Engageware’s platform capabilities to deliver AI-powered customer engagement across financial services, telecom and retail clients and strengthens its offering for enterprise customers.

Forward Slope Incorporated, a Trive Capital-backed technology platform, has acquired Soar Technology, Inc. The add-on strengthens Forward Slope's AI/ML capabilities for Department of Defense and national security customers; the SoarTech leadership invested alongside Trive and will remain as senior leaders of the combined platform.

Dallas-based private equity firm Trive Capital has acquired AI defense platform company Hypergiant Industries to complement its portfolio company Forward Slope. Hypergiant CEO Mike Betzer will remain in place as the company scales its cloud-based CommandCenter geospatial data visualization and AI-enabled C5ISR offerings; terms were not disclosed.

Tyler Technologies has acquired Computing System Innovations, LLC (CSI), an Orlando-area provider of AI-driven redaction, indexing, and document processing software for courts and public-sector customers. Tyler will integrate CSI's Intellidact platform into its eFile & Serve and other product suites to expand AI automation and document-processing capabilities; CSI management and staff will join Tyler and remain in their current offices.

Ziff Davis has made a $25 million minority equity investment in Xyla, Inc. and entered a long-term collaboration to integrate Xyla's OpenEvidence medical AI into Ziff Davis' Everyday Health Group. The strategic partnership is intended to accelerate AI-enabled products and drive enhanced, personalized engagement with healthcare professionals across Ziff Davis' healthcare properties.

Research Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSSS) has acquired ResoluteAI, an AI- and NLP-powered enterprise search and knowledge-management platform. The deal will integrate ResoluteAI's taxonomy, ontology and knowledge-graph capabilities into Research Solutions' Article Galaxy and Foundation platforms to expand enterprise search, knowledge management, and life-sciences research workflows.

Blattner Tech acquired digital transformation consultancy DevDigital to deepen Blattner’s technical bench and strengthen its Predictive Transformation platform. DevDigital founder Peter Marcum will depart after the transaction to focus on equity investing, while DevDigital CFO Debby Sapp will remain and join Blattner Tech as Senior Director of Finance.

Dell Technologies signed a definitive agreement to acquire Moogsoft, an AI-driven observability and AIOps provider, to enhance Dell's AIOps capabilities and embed AI into its multicloud product portfolio. The deal was announced July 19, 2023 and was expected to close in Q3 2023.

Quanos Group GmbH, supported by majority shareholder Keensight Capital, has acquired plusmeta, an AI-driven, cloud-based software provider for technical documentation. The deal strengthens Quanos' AI capabilities and will integrate plusmeta's semantic, LLM and metadata-generation technology into Quanos' aftersales and technical documentation product suite.

Thomson Reuters signed a definitive agreement to acquire Casetext, the San Francisco–based legal technology provider behind the AI legal assistant CoCounsel, for $650 million in cash. The deal, intended to accelerate Thomson Reuters’ generative AI roadmap and enhance its legal product suite, was expected to close in the second half of 2023 and is subject to customary regulatory approvals.

Strattam Capital made a majority growth investment in The Daxtra Group, partnering with founders and co-owners Andrei Mikheev and Steven Finch. The investment will fund Daxtra's expansion in North America and accelerate adoption of its AI-enriched recruiting software and services.

Databricks has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MosaicML, a generative AI platform, for approximately $1.3 billion (inclusive of retention packages). The MosaicML team and technology — known for the MPT family of LLMs and model-training optimizations — will be integrated into the Databricks Lakehouse to expand Databricks' generative AI and model-training capabilities.

Accenture has completed its acquisition of Flutura, an industrial AI company headquartered in Bangalore, India. The deal — terms undisclosed — brings Flutura's ~110 professionals and industrial AI platform into Accenture to strengthen its industrial AI services for clients in energy, chemicals, metals & mining, and pharmaceuticals.

QuestionPro has acquired PathosAI to integrate PathosAI’s emotional-insights AI into QuestionPro’s research and insights platform. The acquisition expands QuestionPro’s AI-driven capabilities for customer experience and brand research by enabling emotion analysis and prediction within its survey and insights tools.

MAI Cloud Solutions Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Generative AI Solutions Corp. (GenAI), agreed to acquire all issued and outstanding shares of Pulse AI Compute Solutions Inc. from Minework Technologies Pte Ltd for an aggregate purchase price of $1,500,000 paid in GenAI common shares, plus additional contingent share-based payments tied to revenue milestones. The deal is intended to provide MAI Cloud with immediate customers, enable discounted procurement of NVIDIA H100 GPUs through Pulse AI, and support GenAI's broader vertically integrated AI compute and cloud strategy.

10Pearls has acquired Oiga Technologies, a Colombia-based product development firm specializing in artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data and blockchain. The deal expands 10Pearls' advanced emerging technology and product development capabilities and strengthens its presence in Latin America.

PartnerHero has acquired Summatti, an AI-powered conversation analytics platform based in Waterloo, Ontario, to accelerate development of its omnichannel CX operations platform. Summatti’s founders will join PartnerHero full-time and the company’s conversation-intelligence technology will be integrated into PartnerHero’s customer operations offerings.

Alarm.com acquired substantially all assets of Vintra, an AI-based video analytics software provider, including Vintra’s core IP and science, engineering and technical services teams. The asset purchase is intended to accelerate Alarm.com’s deep learning program and expand advanced video analytics across the Alarm.com and OpenEye platforms; financial terms were not disclosed.

Voices, the global voice-over marketplace, has acquired Voices.ai and plans to launch a next-generation developer platform for voice applications that will include APIs, libraries, documentation and cloud infrastructure. The acquisition supports Voices’ push into AI-generated voices and developer-focused tools to serve use cases such as voice assistants, eLearning and real-time synthetic voice applications.

Contents.com, an AI-powered content generation scale-up, has acquired French tech platform Scribeur.com to accelerate its entry into the French market. Scribeur's founder Sébastien Raynoird-Thal will become Country Manager for Contents France and Scribeur staff will be integrated with no layoffs; legal advisors on the deal included Taylor Wessing LLP and EY Advisory SpA.

Boathouse Capital completed a growth investment in Cardinality.ai, a government-technology focused AI SaaS provider, to accelerate product innovation and expand go-to-market efforts. Cardinality.ai, which serves state-level health and human services agencies in five states and across eleven agencies (serving 23M+ constituents), will use the capital to scale its built-for-government AI SaaS solutions.

VideoVerse, a video-editing SaaS platform, has acquired Reely.ai, an AI-powered content-creation and social distribution company focused on esports and gaming. The deal will integrate Reely.ai’s computer-vision highlight-detection and automation capabilities into VideoVerse’s product suite to expand its AI-driven short-form video and distribution offerings for players, streamers, teams and esports organizations. Terms were not disclosed.