Sprout Social Acquires Repustate
January 19, 2023
Sprout Social, a Chicago-based provider of social media management software, acquired Repustate, a Toronto-based sentiment analysis and natural language processing company. The acquisition adds Repustate's AI-powered sentiment analysis and NLP capabilities to Sprout's social listening, messaging and customer care offerings to accelerate product roadmap and improve social customer care and listening features.
- Buyers
- Sprout Social
- Targets
- Repustate
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
- Transaction Type
- Buyout
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