AI tools that were acquired

Continue was an open-source AI coding assistant and Copilot alternative with extensions for VS Code and JetBrains, and over 34,000 GitHub stars. Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, acquired the project and team. After a final v2.0.0 release around June 18-19, 2026, the repository was made read-only and unmaintained. The Apache-2.0 code remains available but is no longer shipping updates.

Acquired by Cursor (Anysphere).

Last known pricing: Free, open source

AI-powered SEO assistant for optimized content creation. The product has since been folded into SmythOS; visitors to the original URL are now redirected to smythos.com.

Acquired by SmythOS.

AI-driven SEO optimization plugin for ChatGPT. The product has since been folded into SmythOS; visitors to the original URL are now redirected to smythos.com.

Acquired by SmythOS.

Forethought built enterprise AI agents for customer support, with self-improving automation that resolved tickets across chat, email, and voice. The company raised around $115 million over its life as an independent vendor. Zendesk announced its intent to buy Forethought in March 2026 and completed the deal on March 26, 2026, its largest acquisition in roughly two decades. Forethought now ships as 'Forethought AI Agents by Zendesk' inside the Zendesk Resolution Platform.

Acquired by Zendesk.

Last known pricing: Custom enterprise pricing

Acquired by Apollo.io in March 2026; Pocus's GTM-data platform folded into Apollo.

Acquired by Apollo.io.

Neptune.ai was a Warsaw-based MLOps platform for experiment tracking, founded in 2017. OpenAI announced it would acquire the company on December 3, 2025. The hosted SaaS was shut off on March 5, 2026, and remaining hosted data was deleted; the neptune.ai domain now redirects to OpenAI. The tooling continues internally at OpenAI.

Acquired by OpenAI.

Last known pricing: Free tier; paid team and enterprise plans

Optimize real estate investments with AI-driven market intelligence. The product has since been folded into Forty5Park; visitors to the original URL are now redirected to forty5park.com.

Acquired by Forty5Park.

Pivoted to Feedback Intelligence, then acquired by ActiveCampaign in February 2026.

Acquired by ActiveCampaign.

Acquired by ClickHouse in December 2025; Langfuse continues to operate independently as the LLM observability platform.

Acquired by ClickHouse.

Acquired by ServiceNow in December 2025 for $2.85B; Moveworks's enterprise copilot folded into ServiceNow's Now Assist suite.

Acquired by ServiceNow.

Acquired by Meta in December 2025; the team joined Reality Labs and the Limitless pendant and legacy Rewind apps were wound down.

Acquired by Meta.

Acquired by NVIDIA in 2025; founder/CTO Todd Mostak and the GPU-database team joined NVIDIA's RAPIDS group.

Acquired by NVIDIA.

Supermaven was an AI code-completion tool known for low latency and a 1-million-token context window, with extensions for VS Code, JetBrains, and Neovim. Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, acquired it on November 12, 2024. The standalone service and its editor extensions were sunset on November 30, 2025, with the technology folded into Cursor Tab.

Acquired by Cursor (Anysphere).

Last known pricing: Free; Pro ~$10/mo

Founded in 2017, Aisera built an enterprise agentic AI platform with self-service agents for IT service management, HR, and customer service, paired with conversational automation. Automation Anywhere announced its acquisition of Aisera on November 4, 2025, bringing the company and more than 100 AI engineers into its agentic automation portfolio. Aisera no longer operates as an independent vendor; its conversational AI now combines with Automation Anywhere's process automation stack.

Acquired by Automation Anywhere.

Last known pricing: Custom enterprise pricing

Roi was a personalized AI personal-finance app founded in 2022 by Sujith Vishwajith and Chip Davis, both formerly of Airbnb. It tracked assets across stocks, crypto, DeFi, real estate, and NFTs through a conversational AI companion. OpenAI acqui-hired Vishwajith, the only one of four staff to join, and the app shut down and deleted user data on October 15, 2025.

Acquired by OpenAI.

Last known pricing: Free tier; paid subscription for premium features

Alex Codes was a Y Combinator-backed AI coding assistant for Apple's Xcode, founded in 2024 by Daniel Edrisian. OpenAI hired the team into its Codex division, announced September 2, 2025. New downloads ended October 1, 2025 and no new features were added, though existing users kept limited support.

Acquired by OpenAI.

Last known pricing: Free tier; paid Pro subscription

Iodine Software, an Austin-based healthcare company, used machine learning to improve clinical documentation integrity and the mid-revenue cycle for hospitals and health systems. Waystar acquired it for $1.25 billion in a deal that closed October 1, 2025. The standalone Iodine brand is being retired - iodinesoftware.com now redirects to Waystar - as its technology is consolidated onto Waystar's healthcare-payments AI platform.

Acquired by Waystar.

Last known pricing: Enterprise

Koala was an AI sales-intelligence and CRM tool that deanonymized website visitors and surfaced product-usage intent signals for B2B teams. On July 18, 2025, Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, acqui-hired Koala's engineering team to build enterprise readiness. Cursor explicitly did not integrate the CRM product, and Koala was shut down around September 30, 2025.

Acquired by Cursor (Anysphere).

Last known pricing: Free tier, paid plans on request

AI security platform ensuring reliable and ethical deployment of generative AI. The product has since been folded into F5; visitors to the original URL are now redirected to f5.com.

Acquired by F5.

Automates digital workplace assistance, enhancing employee experience and productivity. The product has since been folded into Resolve; visitors to the original URL are now redirected to resolve.io.

Acquired by Resolve.

Cognigy, a Düsseldorf-based enterprise conversational- and agentic-AI platform for automating customer and employee support, was acquired by NICE for about $955 million in a deal that closed September 8, 2025. It continues to operate, sold both on its own and inside NICE's CXone Mpower platform.

Acquired by NICE.

Last known pricing: Enterprise

Humanloop helped teams evaluate, manage, and monitor LLM prompts. On August 13, 2025, Anthropic acqui-hired its three founders and roughly a dozen engineers; the platform was switched off on September 8, 2025. Anthropic did not acquire Humanloop's assets or intellectual property, and remaining users were steered to Weights & Biases.

Acquired by Anthropic.

Last known pricing: Free tier, Enterprise on request

An easier and faster way to productionize data for AI The product has since been folded into Databricks; visitors to the original URL are now redirected to databricks.com.

Acquired by Databricks.

WaveForms AI was a voice-audio startup focused on detecting and generating emotion in speech, founded in late 2024 by ex-OpenAI researcher Alexis Conneau and backed by Andreessen Horowitz with about $40M. Meta acquired it on August 8, 2025 and absorbed the team into Meta Superintelligence Labs. The company never shipped a public consumer product and its website was taken down.

Acquired by Meta.

Last known pricing: Never publicly launched

Prompt Security, founded by Itamar Golan and Lior Drihem, built an enterprise platform for adopting generative AI safely, governing employee GenAI use and defending applications against prompt injection and data leakage. In August 2025 SentinelOne agreed to acquire it (reported at around $250 million) and fold its technology into the Singularity security platform, ending Prompt Security as a standalone product.

Acquired by SentinelOne.

Last known pricing: Enterprise

PlayHT (later PlayAI) was a YC-backed voice-cloning and text-to-speech platform founded in 2020 by Mahmoud Felfel and Hammad Syed, known for realistic AI voices and a large voice library. In July 2025 Meta acquired the roughly 35-person team into its Superintelligence Labs; the consumer product was wound down and all accounts and custom voice clones were deleted on December 31, 2025.

Acquired by Meta.

Last known pricing: Free tier; paid plans from ~$39/mo

Paragone (formerly MakeMeReach) was folded into its parent company Perion; the standalone product now redirects to perion.com, where its social-advertising capability continues.

Acquired by Perion.

Crossing Minds was an AI recommendation startup serving e-commerce firms, founded in 2016 by a team including Sebastian Thrun, Emile Contal, and Alexandre Robicquet. It built recommendation embeddings and a RAG system called RAGSys. OpenAI hired the team on June 27, 2025, and the company stopped taking new clients. Robicquet joined OpenAI in a research role.

Acquired by OpenAI.

Last known pricing: Enterprise quotes on request

Base44, the "vibe coding" no-code app builder founded by Maor Shlomo, was acquired by Wix for around $80 million in June 2025, roughly six months after launch. Wix has said Base44 will continue to operate as a distinct product and business.

Acquired by Wix.

Last known pricing: Free; paid tiers

Brightflag, founded in Dublin in 2014, built an AI-powered legal spend and matter management platform that corporate legal teams used to review invoices, control outside-counsel spend, and manage matters. Wolters Kluwer acquired it for 425 million euros in a deal that closed June 11, 2025, folding it into its Legal & Regulatory division, where it continues to operate.

Acquired by Wolters Kluwer.

Last known pricing: Enterprise

Acquired by NVIDIA in June 2025. CentML's model-optimization technology has been folded into NVIDIA's AI infrastructure stack.

Acquired by NVIDIA.

Acquired by RWS in 2025. Papercup's AI dubbing technology integrated into RWS's language technology suite.

Acquired by RWS.

AI-powered tool that transforms text prompts into UI designs. The product has since been folded into Withgoogle; visitors to the original URL are now redirected to stitch.withgoogle.com.

Acquired by Google.

Ottogrid, which launched in 2023 as Cognosys and rebranded in October 2024, offered a spreadsheet-style 'smart table' where web-browsing AI agents filled cells with researched data. It was used to enrich sales lists and automate market research at scale. Cohere acquired the company in May 2025 and announced it would sunset the standalone product, folding the team and technology into its North enterprise platform.

Acquired by Cohere.

Last known pricing: Subscription tiers, contact sales

Acquired by CoreWeave in May 2025; W&B continues to operate as a standalone product at wandb.ai.

Acquired by CoreWeave.

Lepton AI was a cloud-native AI inference platform founded in 2023 by Yangqing Jia, the creator of Caffe and former leader of Alibaba's PAI ML platform. The company built high-performance serving infrastructure for LLMs and multi-modal models, competing with Together AI and Fireworks. NVIDIA acquired Lepton in May 2025, joining OctoAI as another inference-platform consolidation under the chip vendor. Lepton's tech and team now power NVIDIA's enterprise inference cloud strategy alongside NIM. The standalone product is being sunset as customers migrate to NVIDIA's broader offerings.

Acquired by NVIDIA.

Acquired by Palo Alto Networks on 2025-04-28 for ~$500M. Now part of Palo Alto's AI security platform.

Acquired by Palo Alto Networks.

Tome AI presentation tool shut down April 2025; brand + select tech acquired by AngelList. Original Tome team pivoted to a new sales intelligence company called Lightfield.

Acquired by AngelList.

Context.ai was a GV-backed LLM evaluation and analytics platform, founded in 2023 by former Googlers Henry Scott-Green and Alex Gamble. OpenAI acqui-hired the team in April 2025, and the products were wound down. Scott-Green became a product manager at OpenAI working on evaluation tooling.

Acquired by OpenAI.

Last known pricing: Free tier; usage-based paid plans

Altair Engineering was acquired by Siemens for $10.6B (deal closed March 2025) and folded into Siemens Digital Industries. Its simulation, HPC, and AI-driven design tools continue to ship under the Siemens Altair brand.

Acquired by Siemens.

Acquired by NVIDIA in March 2025; the Gretel team and synthetic-data tech were folded into NVIDIA and ship as NeMo Data Designer.

Acquired by NVIDIA.

Voyage AI was the embedding-models company founded by Stanford professor Tengyu Ma, building best-in-class vectors for retrieval and RAG. The voyage-3 series outperformed OpenAI's ada-002 on standard benchmarks and was widely adopted in enterprise RAG pipelines. MongoDB acquired Voyage AI in February 2025 for ~$220M to integrate the embedding models directly into MongoDB Atlas Vector Search. The acquisition reflected databases absorbing vector search natively rather than partnering with standalone embedding APIs. Voyage's API continues to operate while being integrated into Atlas.

Acquired by MongoDB.

Acquired by Jasper on 2025-02-20 (after Stability AI's 2023 purchase). 15M+ users; integrated into Jasper's marketing copilot.

Acquired by Jasper.

Humane was the wearable AI assistant company founded in 2018 by ex-Apple designers Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno. The AI Pin launched in November 2023 to massive hype at $699 plus a $24/month subscription, but reviews panned it as slow and unreliable, with battery and heat issues. By 2024 returns exceeded new sales. HP acquired the IP and team for $116M in February 2025 — far below the $230M+ raised. The AI Pin was discontinued and customer servers shut down. Humane became the canonical example of AI hardware that shipped before the tech was ready.

Acquired by HP.

Acquired by Brahma (DNEG Group) in February 2025; the generative-VFX tech now ships under the Brahma AI brand.

Acquired by Brahma (DNEG).

The intelligent AI Spend Management Platform The product has since been folded into Perk; visitors to the original URL are now redirected to perk.com.

Acquired by TravelPerk.

Acquired by HubSpot (announced 2024-12-06, closed 2025-01-06). Frame AI's conversational intelligence powers HubSpot Smart CRM.

Acquired by HubSpot.

Bench filed for closure in December 2024; brand was acquired by Mainstreet and continues to operate as Bench bookkeeping under Mainstreet ownership.

Acquired by Mainstreet.

Acquired by Coralogix on 2024-12-23. Aporia's ML observability platform integrated into Coralogix's full-stack observability suite.

Acquired by Coralogix.

Formerly Pathlight; acquired by Calabrio in December 2024 and folded into Calabrio's conversation-intelligence platform.

Acquired by Calabrio.

Acquired by Automattic in December 2024; the standalone CodeWP product was sunset and its tech absorbed into Automattic's WordPress AI tooling (Telex).

Acquired by Automattic.

Acquired by Uniphore in December 2024 for ~$145M. Rebranded as 'CDP Agent' as part of Uniphore's conversational AI platform.

Acquired by Uniphore.

WavTool billed itself as the first full digital audio workstation that ran entirely in a browser, pairing VST support and live recording with AI stem separation and MIDI generation. The product went offline in November 2024 behind a 'will return soon' notice and never came back as a standalone app. In June 2025 Suno confirmed it had acquired WavTool, folding the team and technology into its AI music platform.

Acquired by Suno.

Last known pricing: Free tier; Pro around $20/mo

Acquired by Captions in November 2024; the team joined Captions and the standalone Alpaca art tool was wound down.

Acquired by Captions.

Acquired by Recursion in Nov 2024 (~$650M all-stock deal). Combined company creates vertically integrated AI drug discovery platform.

Acquired by Recursion.

Acquired by SAS on 2024-11-12. Hazy's synthetic data software integrated into SAS's data and AI portfolio.

Acquired by SAS.

Rockset was a real-time analytics and search database, founded in 2016 by former Facebook engineers. OpenAI acquired it on June 21, 2024 for its data indexing and retrieval technology. The standalone cloud service was shut down on September 30, 2024, roughly 90 days after the announcement, forcing customers to migrate off the platform. The technology was folded into OpenAI's retrieval infrastructure.

Acquired by OpenAI.

Last known pricing: Usage-based cloud pricing; enterprise quotes on request

Acquired by NVIDIA on 2024-09-25 for ~$250M. Originally OctoML, rebranded to OctoAI before acquisition. Wound down commercial services 2024-10-31.

Acquired by NVIDIA.

Acquired by Cisco on 2024-09-23 for ~$400M. Now part of Cisco AI Defense.

Acquired by Cisco.

OctoAI was acquired by NVIDIA in September 2024 to bolster their enterprise AI inference stack. The team and technology — originally built on Apache TVM by University of Washington professor Luis Ceze — were folded into NVIDIA's NIM and inference services. The standalone OctoAI product is no longer accessible.

Acquired by NVIDIA.

Acquired by soona in 2024. Mokker's AI product photography integrated into soona's content creation platform.

Acquired by soona.

Covariant built AI "foundation models" for warehouse robots, led by ex-OpenAI researchers Pieter Abbeel, Peter Chen and Rocky Duan. In August 2024 Amazon hired the founders and about a quarter of staff and licensed Covariant's models — a reverse-acquihire reportedly worth ~$400M, well below its $625M valuation. The remaining company kept operating, but its leadership and core technology moved to Amazon.

Acquired by Amazon.

Last known pricing: Enterprise

Drift was acquired by Salesloft in February 2024 to combine Salesloft's revenue orchestration with Drift's conversational marketing. The Drift brand was wound down through 2024-2025 as features merged into Salesloft.

Acquired by Salesloft.

Character.AI, founded by Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, built one of the most-used consumer chatbot platforms, letting people create and chat with AI characters. In August 2024 Google paid about $2.7B to license its technology and hire Shazeer, De Freitas, and part of the research team — a reverse-acquihire. The product keeps operating independently, but its founders returned to Google (Shazeer left for OpenAI in 2026).

Acquired by Google.

Last known pricing: Free; c.ai+ ~$9.99/mo

Multi, formerly Remotion, was a Mac collaboration and screen-sharing app built for engineering teams, founded in 2019 by Alexander Embiricos and Charley Ho. OpenAI acquired the team on June 24, 2024, and they joined the ChatGPT desktop group. The app was sunset and all user data was deleted on July 24, 2024, with users told to export their session notes beforehand.

Acquired by OpenAI.

Last known pricing: Free tier; paid team plans per seat

Merged with Exabeam on 2024-07-17 (Thoma Bravo-backed). Combined company operates as Exabeam.

Acquired by Exabeam.

Acquired by Amazon in June 2024 (acqui-hire). Co-founders David Luan and Niki Parmar joined Amazon AGI; Adept.ai remains live as a product page.

Acquired by Amazon.

Acquired by Sirion in June 2024. Eigen's NLP document processing technology integrated into Sirion's contract intelligence platform.

Acquired by Sirion.

Acquired by Freepik in May 2024; Magnific continues to operate at magnific.com under Freepik ownership.

Acquired by Freepik.

Acquired by Autodesk on 2024-05-21. Wonder Studio (AI VFX/3D animation) was integrated into Autodesk's media & entertainment offerings.

Acquired by Autodesk.

Advanced platform for building, optimizing, and deploying computer vision and NLP models The product has since been folded into NVIDIA; visitors to the original URL are now redirected to nvidia.com.

Acquired by NVIDIA.

Pi was Inflection AI's consumer chatbot — pitched as a kind, emotionally intelligent companion and backed by a ~$1.5B valuation. In March 2024 Microsoft hired founders Mustafa Suleyman and Karen Simonyan plus most of the staff and licensed Inflection's models, a "reverse acquihire" that hollowed out the company. Inflection pivoted to enterprise and the consumer Pi was effectively sunset.

Acquired by Microsoft.

Last known pricing: Free

Acquired by Front in January 2024; the standalone Windsor video product was discontinued and absorbed into Front.

Acquired by Front.

Acquired by Siteimprove in 2024; MarketMuse's content-strategy AI rolled into Siteimprove's platform.

Acquired by Siteimprove.

Rephrase.ai was the generative AI synthetic video platform founded in 2019 in Bangalore by Ashray Malhotra, Nisheeth Lahoti, and Shivam Mangla. The company created personalized synthetic videos with AI-generated avatars and voice, used by Cadbury, Prudential, and Pepsi for marketing campaigns. Adobe acquired Rephrase.ai in December 2023 to bolster the Firefly Video roadmap, part of Adobe's pattern of buying generative AI to defend its creative franchise against Runway and Pika. The standalone product was sunset; team and tech were folded into Adobe Firefly Video.

Acquired by Adobe.

Acquired by Safran Group in December 2023; rebranded as Safran.AI inside Safran's defense AI division.

Acquired by Safran Group.

Acquired by Snowflake in October 2023; Ponder's pandas-on-warehouse execution was brought into Snowflake.

Acquired by Snowflake.

Code-free AI agents revolutionizing commerce, ensuring instant resolutions for customer queries. The product has since been folded into Salesforce; visitors to the original URL are now redirected to salesforce.com.

Acquired by Salesforce.

Acquired by Thomson Reuters for $650M cash (announced 2023-06-26, closed 2023-08-17). Casetext's CoCounsel legal AI assistant powers Thomson Reuters' AI-Assisted Research.

Acquired by Thomson Reuters.

Acquired by Databricks for ~$1.3B (announced 2023-06-26, closed 2023-07-19). MosaicML's MPT models + training infrastructure were folded into Databricks Mosaic AI.

Acquired by Databricks.

Acquired by DigitalOcean in July 2023 for $111M; Paperspace's GPU cloud is now part of DigitalOcean's AI/ML platform.

Acquired by DigitalOcean.

Neeva was an ad-free, privacy-first search engine founded by former Google ad chief Sridhar Ramaswamy. Unable to pull enough consumers away from Google, it shut its consumer search engine on June 2, 2023 and was acquired days later by Snowflake, which absorbed its team and generative-AI search technology. Ramaswamy went on to become Snowflake’s CEO.

Acquired by Snowflake.

Last known pricing: Free; Premium ~$4.95/mo

Olive AI shut down its core healthcare RPA business in 2023; eligibility verification and prior-auth lines were acquired by Waystar.

Acquired by Waystar.

AI-powered experience management and insight solutions provider. The product has since been folded into SurveyMonkey; visitors to the original URL are now redirected to surveymonkey.com.

Acquired by Symphony Technology Group.

Zyro was rebranded into Hostinger Website Builder in 2023; the standalone Zyro brand was retired.

Acquired by Hostinger.

Online platform offering comprehensive courses in Data Science, AI, and Machine Learning. The product has since been folded into Pwskills; visitors to the original URL are now redirected to pwskills.com.

Acquired by PW Skills.

Acquired by Figma in June 2022; Diagram's AI design utilities folded into Figma's product.

Acquired by Figma.

Figstack aids developers in understanding and documenting code efficiently. The product has since been folded into Mintlify; visitors to the original URL are now redirected to mintlify.com.

Acquired by Mintlify.

Acquired by Ocado Group in 2020 (~$262M); the piece-picking robotics tech was absorbed into Ocado Intelligent Automation.

Acquired by Ocado Group.

Acquired by Intel in November 2020 (reported ~$60M) and folded into Intel's AI/ML software stack.

Acquired by Intel.

AI-powered homework assistance for various subjects. The product has since been folded into Lens; visitors to the original URL are now redirected to lens.google.

Acquired by Google.

VocalIQ, founded in 2011 as a spinout of Cambridge University, built self-learning voice-AI software designed to hold natural, context-aware conversations rather than parse rigid commands. Apple acquired the small team in late 2015 and folded its technology into Siri. The standalone product never reached the market; VocalIQ disappeared into Apple as one of the building blocks of its voice assistant.

Acquired by Apple.

Last known pricing: Acquired by Apple (terms undisclosed)