Acquisition History / Google / Wavii
Google Acquires Wavii
Announced April 23, 2013 — $30M
What happened
Wavii was a natural language processing business based in United States; acquired by Alphabet/Google and integrated into or used as Google Knowledge Graph.
- Acquirer
- Target
- Wavii
- Announced
- April 23, 2013
- Price
- $30M
- Industry
- Natural language processing
By the numbers
Frequently Asked Questions About This Acquisition
When did Google acquire Wavii?
Google acquired Wavii on April 23, 2013. This was Google's 125th publicly tracked acquisition out of 269 we have on record.
How much did Google pay for Wavii?
Google paid $30M for Wavii.
What does Wavii do?
Wavii was a natural language processing business based in United States; acquired by Alphabet/Google and integrated into or used as Google Knowledge Graph.
What other Natural language processing companies has Google acquired?
Google has made 2 acquisitions in Natural language processing, including Wavii. See the full list on the Natural language processing and Google acquisition pages.
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