Automattic Acquires Clay

Automattic Acquires Beeper

April 9, 2024

Software

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, has acquired messaging startup Beeper in a deal that closed April 1 for about $125 million. The Beeper team will join Automattic's messaging efforts (including last year’s Texts.com acquisition); Beeper founder Eric Migicovsky will lead messaging at Automattic as Head of Messaging and the product will be integrated and expanded under the Beeper brand.

Qualcomm Acquires Clay AIR

November 23, 2021

AI & Machine Learning

Qualcomm has acquired Clay AIR, an AI-powered hand-tracking and gesture-recognition technology company, to strengthen its XR (extended reality) technology stack. The acquisition adds Clay AIR's hardware-agnostic tracking technology and team of computer vision and machine-learning experts to Qualcomm's XR capabilities.

Clari Acquires Groove to Add Sales Engagement to Its Revenue Platform

August 14, 2023

Cloud & SaaS

Clari has acquired Groove, a market-leading sales engagement platform, and will integrate Groove’s workflow automation and AI-driven engagement capabilities into Clari’s AI-powered Revenue Platform. Groove co-founders Chris Rothstein and Austin Wang will join Clari to lead the Groove product line as the combined offering aims to give revenue teams end-to-end visibility, execution, and improved forecasting.

Voltron Data Acquires Claypot AI

January 24, 2024

AI & Machine Learning

Voltron Data, a provider of modular and composable data analytics systems, has acquired Claypot AI, a real-time AI platform startup. The deal adds Claypot's real-time analytics, feature engineering and MLOps capabilities to Voltron Data's GPU-native Theseus engine to enable unified, GPU-powered data preprocessing and ML pipelines for enterprise and government customers.

2X Acquires The Kiln

January 7, 2026

Marketing & Advertising

2X, a PE-backed Marketing-as-a-Service (MaaS) and go-to-market (GTM) orchestration provider, has acquired The Kiln, a Brooklyn-based Clay partner specializing in GTM engineering and RevOps. The acquisition expands 2X’s capabilities from marketing execution to full GTM orchestration and scales The Kiln’s Clay expertise to enterprise clients as an add-on to 2X’s PE-backed platform.

Automattic Acquires Texts.com

October 25, 2023

Software

Automattic has acquired Texts.com, a desktop-first messaging app that consolidates conversations from platforms like iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, LinkedIn, Slack and Discord into a single, encrypted inbox. The acquisition expands Automattic’s consumer product portfolio into messaging and adds AI features (message summarization, drafting, translation) while the Texts.com team works on a mobile rollout.