Walmart has been making strides in eCommerce, perhaps keeping pace with Amazon’s global strategy. This year, the retail giant made a big bet in India with the acquisition of Flipkart. Walmart Labs, its digital arm has also been acquiring promisitng startups. Earlier in the year it acquired the mobile analytics startup Appsfly.io and recently announced acquisition of Int.ai.
In a recent announcement the startup founded in 2016 by Vinay Kumar NP and Praneeth Doguparthy posted that will soon join Walmart’s health and wellness portfolio.
We started int.ai in the beginning of 2016 with an ambitious mission to build an AI powered personal data analyst for every business executive. In the process we developed expertise in blending machine learning with data analytics to uncover insights that significantly impact business metrics. We also developed a reliable enterprise data platform.
Today, after working for almost 3 years on it, we are very happy to let you know that our entire team will be joining Walmart Labs, India. We will continue to apply what we have learnt in order to help optimize the shopping experience for millions of customers. It excites us to get our hands on data at Walmart scale!
Hari Vasudev, Country Head & Vice President of Technology at Walmart Labs India was quoted saying “We are glad to welcome the Int.ai team to the Walmart Labs family and believe their expertise will be a great addition to our data analytics capabilities. We look forward to building awesome customer experiences with this team by creating opportunities and bringing value to our customers around the globe”.
Terms of the acqui-hire were not announced.