Alphabet acquired Kaggle, a transaction announced in March 2017.
Kaggle operates in Cloud / AI & data science, is based in San Francisco, California, USA. Kaggle hosts the world's largest online community of data scientists and machine-learning practitioners, known for its public datasets, notebooks (kernels), and prediction competitions. Google acquired it (announced at Google Cloud Next '17) to bring this community closer to Google Cloud's data and machine-learning services.
Connect the largest data-science community to Google Cloud's ML tools and datasets.
Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.