AI & Machine Learning Acquisitions in Massachusetts

Livechain, Inc. (a subsidiary of Vyome Holdings) executed a debt purchase agreement with Remus Capital to acquire the senior, secured convertible note of Sociometric Solutions, Inc. d/b/a Humanyze in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $325,000. Livechain initiated a default and asset transfer to assume Humanyze's business assets, including intellectual property, and to take direct control of daily operations as it expands into AI-enabled HR analytics.

Trax Ltd. has divested its non-China Image Recognition (IR) business to an affiliate of Gemspring Capital. The acquired unit will be merged with FORM (creators of GoSpotCheck and FORM OpX) to form a combined company focused on retail execution and shelf intelligence, while Trax Ltd. retains Shopkick, Survey and LenzTech and pursues a more focused portfolio strategy.

AstraZeneca has acquired Modella AI, a Boston-based biomedical AI company, to integrate its multimodal foundation models and agentic AI platform into AstraZeneca's global oncology R&D organization. The deal expands an existing multi-year collaboration to accelerate clinical development, improve biomarker discovery, and drive data-driven decision-making across AstraZeneca's oncology pipeline; financial terms were not disclosed.

SoundHound AI (Nasdaq: SOUN) has acquired Interactions, a pioneer in AI-powered virtual assistants for customer service, for approximately $60 million in cash plus potential additional milestone payments. The acquisition, which adds Interactions' enterprise customer base and conversational AI capabilities to SoundHound's portfolio, is expected to accelerate SoundHound's leadership in agentic AI and expand its enterprise market penetration.

Longshore Capital Partners completed a strategic growth investment in DemandTec, the AI-powered retail pricing and merchandising software provider, establishing DemandTec as an independent, PE-backed company. The transaction (reported as a sale of the DemandTec business by Acoustic, L.P.) positions DemandTec to accelerate its AI and product investments, expand commercial reach, and deepen leadership in pricing, promotions, markdown optimization and trade fund management for retailers and CPGs.

Braze has completed its acquisition of OfferFit, an AI decisioning company, and will integrate OfferFit's multi-agent reinforcement learning engine into Braze's Customer Engagement Platform. The deal is intended to expand Braze's AI and personalization capabilities, accelerating OfferFit's growth by leveraging Braze's global scale.

Quansight has acquired Cobalt Speech and Language, a specialist provider of custom automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language understanding (NLU) solutions. The acquisition strengthens Quansight's AI/ML and voice capabilities, allowing it to deliver advanced, production-grade voice and language systems for enterprise and embedded applications.

Voltage Park, a San Francisco–based GPU-as-a-service provider, has acquired TensorDock, a GPU cloud marketplace, to expand its AI infrastructure offerings and GPU availability for startups, enterprises, and researchers. As part of the deal TensorDock's founder Jonathon Lei becomes General Manager of On‑Demand at Voltage Park and several TensorDock team members assume leadership roles within the combined organization.

Red Hat has completed its acquisition of Neural Magic, a developer of software and algorithms that accelerate generative AI inference workloads. Neural Magic's model optimization and inference performance engineering capabilities will be integrated into Red Hat AI to improve cost-effective, high-performing AI deployments across hybrid cloud environments.

Zapata Computing, doing business as Zapata AI, completed a business combination with special purpose acquisition company Andretti Acquisition Corp., and the combined company will trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbols ZPTA (common) and ZPTAW (warrants). The transaction provides Zapata AI with public-market capital and financial flexibility to fuel product innovation, accelerate enterprise customer acquisition, and advance its industrial generative AI growth strategy.

Databricks has acquired Boston-based Lilac, an applied research startup that builds tools to explore, cluster and curate unstructured text datasets for generative AI workflows. Lilac's team and technology will be integrated into Databricks' Mosaic AI and data intelligence platform to improve dataset quality, monitoring, and preparation for RAG, fine-tuning and pre-training of LLMs; terms were not disclosed.

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.

Certara, Inc. (Nasdaq: CERT) has acquired Vyasa Analytics, LLC to integrate Vyasa’s deep-learning platform LAYAR and AI capabilities into Certara’s biosimulation software suite. The acquisition expands Certara’s data fabric and AI-driven prediction capabilities to accelerate drug discovery and development.

FreeWire Technologies has acquired Mobilyze.ai, an AI-driven EV charging analytics and prediction platform. The acquisition adds location analytics and utilization-forecasting capabilities to FreeWire’s EV charging and energy management offerings to help site hosts optimize charger placement and ROI.

Copysmith has acquired AI writing and SEO platforms Frase and Rytr and launched a combined brand, Copyrytr, to unify its AI-powered content and SEO offerings. The deal aligns the three products to accelerate product development, broaden market coverage from freelancers to enterprises, and strengthen Copysmith's position in AI content generation.

Peak Technologies, a portfolio company of Sole Source Capital, has acquired Siena Analytics, a Franklin, Massachusetts-based provider of supply chain and logistics analytics and AI-driven machine vision software. The deal is an add-on acquisition that integrates Siena's proprietary logistics software into Peak's AIDC systems integration offerings to expand capabilities in visibility, automation and micro-fulfillment solutions; financial terms were not disclosed.

Veritone, Inc. acquired VocaliD, Inc., a U.S.-based pioneer in personalized synthetic voices, to expand and enhance its Veritone Voice capabilities and integrate VocaliD's proprietary voice modeling and audio mixing technology into its aiWARE platform. The VocaliD team will join Veritone's Commercial Enterprise division, enabling expanded enterprise-grade synthetic voice offerings for brands, broadcasters, podcasters and other customers.

Symbotic LLC completed a business combination with SVF Investment Corp. 3, a SoftBank-sponsored SPAC, and will operate as Symbotic Inc. with Class A shares trading on Nasdaq under the ticker SYM. The transaction provides significant growth capital to accelerate Symbotic's expansion and commercialization of its A.I.-enabled robotics and software platform, which has more than $11 billion in contracted orders.

Ondas Holdings, through its subsidiary American Robotics, entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Ardenna, a provider of image-processing and machine-learning software for rail infrastructure inspections. The deal will integrate Ardenna's Rail-Inspector analytics into American Robotics' Scout autonomous drone platform to deliver end-to-end monitoring and inspection solutions for the rail industry; Ardenna is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bihrle Applied Research Inc., and the acquisition was expected to close in Q2 2022.

Digital Alpha led a majority investment (reported at $200M) to acquire a controlling stake in DTiQ, the provider of AI-driven video intelligence, analytics and managed services for restaurants, convenience stores and specialty retail. The deal includes a strategic collaboration with Cisco Meraki to extend DTiQ's cloud, AI and automation capabilities and accelerate product and market expansion.

InMoment has completed the acquisition of Lexalytics to integrate Lexalytics' natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) text-analytics capabilities into InMoment's XI customer experience (CXM) platform. Lexalytics' team, including founder Jeff Catlin, will remain in place as InMoment expands native text analytics across its platform to support voice-of-customer, voice-of-employee, social listening and other use cases.

Smart Eye (Gothenburg) has completed its acquisition of Affectiva (Boston), combining Smart Eye's industry-leading eye-tracking and driver monitoring systems with Affectiva's Emotion AI and media-analytics capabilities. The merged company will pursue a unified Interior Sensing platform for automotive customers while expanding media analytics and human-factors research offerings.

MaxLinear, Inc. (NYSE: MXL) completed the acquisition of NanoSemi, Inc., a Boston-based MIT spinout that develops patented machine-learning IP to improve signal integrity and power efficiency in SoCs, ASICs and FPGAs. The initial consideration included $10 million in cash and 804,163 shares of MaxLinear common stock, plus $35 million in deferred cash and up to $35 million in potential earnouts; the deal expands MaxLinear's capabilities for 5G and wireless system customers.

RadNet, Inc. has executed a definitive agreement to acquire DeepHealth, Inc., a Cambridge-based radiology AI and machine learning company focused on mammography and 3D breast imaging. The deal is structured as an initial share payment with up to additional milestone-based stock payments and aims to integrate DeepHealth's team and technology into RadNet's AI strategy to improve imaging interpretation and workflow efficiency.

Alteryx acquired Feature Labs, an MIT-born data science software company that automates feature engineering for machine learning, to strengthen Alteryx's machine learning and AI capabilities and add an engineering hub in Boston. The acquisition integrates Feature Labs' automated feature-engineering technology and open-source libraries into the Alteryx Platform to accelerate time-to-insight for enterprise data workers.

SymphonyAI Group acquired Azima Global, a provider of cloud-based machine condition monitoring, diagnostic and analytics solutions for process and manufacturing industries, and has renamed the business Symphony AzimaAI. The deal integrates Azima's equipment diagnostics and domain expertise with SymphonyAI's eurekaAI platform to deliver AI-driven predictive maintenance and asset reliability solutions and support product, equipment-coverage and geographic expansion.

Genpact has acquired RAGE Frameworks, a Dedham, Massachusetts–based provider of knowledge-based AI and cognitive computing platforms for enterprise automation. The deal expands Genpact's AI capabilities and will allow it to take RAGE's platform to existing and new clients across financial services, insurance, CPG and other industries.