Synapse ITS Acquires Oko Mobile App
July 14, 2025
Synapse ITS has acquired Oko, an AI-driven mobile navigation app for blind and visually impaired pedestrians, and will reinstate it as a free service. The acquisition strengthens Synapse ITS’s accessibility offerings—complementing Polara’s Accessible Pedestrian Signals (APS) and leveraging Oko’s computer-vision and location-based capabilities to improve intersection safety and navigation.
- Buyers
- Synapse ITS, Vance Street Capital
- Targets
- Oko
- Platforms
- Synapse ITS
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- New York, United States
- Transaction Type
- Addon
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