Microsoft Corporation acquired SwiftKey, a transaction completed in March 2016.
SwiftKey operates in AI / Productivity, is based in London, United Kingdom. Microsoft acquired SwiftKey, maker of a predictive software keyboard and SDK that then powered more than 300 million Android and iOS devices across roughly 100 languages. Microsoft kept developing SwiftKey's keyboard apps while folding the predictive technology into its broader portfolio. Financial terms were not disclosed.
SwiftKey's predictive input technology fit Microsoft's 'reinvent productivity' ambition and more personal computing via the intelligent cloud.
We believe that together we can achieve orders of magnitude greater scale than either of us could have achieved independently.Harry Shum, Executive Vice President, Microsoft AI and Research Group
Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.