Machine learning applied to different sectors
The sector par excellence is software, where we have found 25 companies in the industry, these companies enable the transformation of large volumes of data by adding predictive and analytics capabilities to machine learning capabilities, such as Spanish Clever Task which uses learning from past data to predict future behaviour.
They are followed by the analytics and advertising sectors, where we found 19 and 12 companies respectively.
Acquisitions
The mergers and acquisitions en el sector todavía son muy escasas. La mayoría de estas operations have been made in the USA, there is only one company that is not American, that is Belgian. NGDATA, dedicated to increasing customer lifetime value through data information processing. The companies acquired by NGDATA have been ENQIO in March 2013 and Outerthought in 2011.
"Google stands out as the most active buyer in the sector and has already made three purchases: two of these, the purchase of Emu Messenger and ImpermiumThe following events were carried out in 2014. Emu Messenger es un servicio de mensajería para iPhone que utiliza la inteligencia artificial – aprendizaje automático y procesamiento del lenguaje natural – para entender los mensajes. Impermium se centra en controlar el spam y eliminar el fraude y el abuso en línea web.» afirma Diego Gutierrez de Abra Invest.
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