Airship Acquires ReplyBuy to Add SMS Commerce and Payments

BYTE Acquisition Corp. Completes Business Combination with Airship AI

December 21, 2023

AI & Machine Learning

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.

Unosquare Acquires Airship (Birmingham, Alabama)

December 12, 2022

IT Services

Unosquare, a global digital engineering firm, has acquired Airship, a Birmingham-based custom software and mobile app development firm, to expand its onshore delivery capabilities and vertical specialization. The deal bolsters Unosquare’s U.S. delivery footprint as it continues scaling its nearshore and onshore engineering services.

Airship Acquires Gummicube

June 2, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Airship has acquired Gummicube, a leading App Store Optimization (ASO) platform, to integrate ASO capabilities into Airship's App Experience Platform (AXP). The deal is supported by debt financing from Accel-KKR Credit Partners and Wells Fargo Capital Finance; all ~80 Gummicube employees joined Airship and Gummicube's co-founders joined as VPs/co-general managers of the new division.

VoiceSage Acquires 2sms to Expand U.S. Presence

October 29, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

Dublin-based cloud communications provider VoiceSage has acquired Texas-based mobile messaging company 2sms to strengthen its presence in the U.S. market and expand its customer base. The deal brings 2sms's customers in financial services, education and retail into VoiceSage's platform and increases VoiceSage's global scale in conversational messaging and CPaaS offerings.

Yotpo Acquires SMSBump

January 29, 2020

Cloud & SaaS

Yotpo has acquired SMSBump, a Sofia-based SMS marketing platform for eCommerce brands, integrating SMS capabilities into Yotpo’s retention marketing suite. The acquisition brings SMSBump’s SMS marketing, flows and Shopify-focused product into Yotpo’s platform to provide unified reviews, UGC, loyalty and SMS for D2C merchants.

Reply! Inc. Acquires MerchantCircle for $60 Million

May 26, 2011

Marketing & Advertising

Reply! Inc. agreed to acquire MerchantCircle for $60 million in cash and stock to combine Reply!'s marketplace with MerchantCircle's network of local merchants. The deal (expected to close in Q3 2011) will create a combined company focused on locally-targeted online marketing, with projected combined 2012 revenues of over $100 million.