Whatnot Acquires Shaped to Power Real-Time Live Shopping Recommendations

Snappy Acquires Covver to Expand AI-Powered Swag and Company Store Capabilities

January 13, 2025

Marketing & Advertising

Snappy has acquired Covver, a Tel Aviv–based platform that provides swag, company stores, and points-based recognition solutions with AI-driven personalization. The acquisition expands Snappy’s branded merchandise and company-store capabilities, adding vendor-agnostic fulfillment, a global swag marketplace, and AI-powered personalization tools to its global gifting platform.

NinjaCat Acquires Shape.io

August 9, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

NinjaCat, the digital marketing performance management platform, has acquired Shape.io, a pay-per-click (PPC) budget management software suite. The acquisition integrates Shape.io's budget monitoring and automation capabilities and teams into NinjaCat to accelerate delivery of an all-in-one marketing data and reporting platform.

Alpha Metaverse Technologies Acquires Shape Immersive Entertainment Inc.

April 13, 2022

Media & Entertainment

Alpha Metaverse Technologies Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of Shape Immersive Entertainment Inc. The deal consideration includes cash and common shares of Alpha, milestone share issuances tied to market-cap milestones, and Shape will continue operating as a metaverse/AR/VR studio to expand Alpha’s Web3, NFT and immersive-gaming capabilities.

Shutterstock Forms Shutterstock.AI and Acquires Pattern89, Datasine and Shotzr

July 27, 2021

AI & Machine Learning

Shutterstock, Inc. launched a new AI-focused subsidiary, Shutterstock.AI, and acquired three AI-driven creative/marketing platforms — Pattern89, Datasine and Shotzr — for aggregate cash consideration of approximately $35 million. The acquisitions are intended to accelerate Shutterstock's predictive creative, computer vision and content-insights capabilities and commercialize data assets from its large content library.

Dynata Acquires Sharpr to Extend Insights Platform

August 11, 2020

Data & Analytics

Dynata has acquired Sharpr, an AI-powered knowledge management and content syndication platform, and will integrate Sharpr’s capabilities into the Dynata Insights Platform to enable better discovery, sharing and publishing of research across organizations. The acquisition expands Dynata’s data and insights offering by adding market and competitive intelligence, searchable insight repositories and custom publishing tools to its platform.

Nextag Acquires Thingbuzz

October 18, 2011

E-Commerce

Nextag, the San Mateo-based shopping and product comparison website, acquired Thingbuzz, a Bay Area real-time social shopping platform, to integrate social media product conversations and reviews into Nextag's shopping experience. The acquisition is intended to add social shopping and real-time product discovery capabilities to Nextag's site; financial terms were not disclosed.