UUPP is looking for a path to growth in agency AI with its Pik.AI acquisition

Agentic AI solutions are hit by the Enterprise Market, and now the big players of the automation have got a startup in the space in the hope of a big part of that business. TipAs part of its quarterly earnings last night, Public That he received PeakThe launch of Manchester that creates “decisions” AI solutions for work like prices and inventory management for companies in retail and manufacturing.
The terms of the deal were not announced, but sources say that Pik was not looking for a buyer, nor was he at the end of his runway, and the deal was in cash. Robert Anton, whose Pay FirM was one of the supporters of OX PC.Ee, said in an interview that he was “very happy” with the result.
Peak last raised money in 2021, while Softbank endorsed the company Million 75 million. The pitchbook noted that the company costs the company after about $ 267 million, including Raised Raised $ 121 million, including Octopus, MMC and Avcrod.
But in the last company’s account filed in the UK houses in the UK for the year ending December 31, 2023, Peak said it had made only $ 9 million ($ 11.6 million) in revenue. It was up 17% in the previous year.
The company noted in the filing, “Despite facing strong economic headwinds, the peak in the global market continued to grow.”
She is also hit by headwinds to big companies. Yesterday’s overall results showed the company’s income Fourth quarter Only 5% increased a year ago. 424 million.
That on top of that, when he Heartbreak The analyst estimates, citing the “Global Macro Economic Uncertainty” to reduce its 2026 financial point of view, which is between $ 1.525 billion and $ 1.530 billion in revenue-falling shares of the company, currently 18% in the pre-market trade at the time of writing.
Those updates were coming to the hard -year heels for the company, which in July 2024 released 10% of its employees after lowering the full year expectations for the financial year 2025.
Trade on NYSE, UEPP has a market cap of about $ 6.5 billion.
Revenue growth is where Peak can potentially help its new owner. The two companies were already partnering together before editing, and the idea is that the UPP will give Peak customers more opportunities to cross-sell a large group of solutions-even more occupy the overall income of the peak on its bottom line.
UPPH started it in the robotic process automation-a business that lifted like a rocket and tapped it for $ 35 billion evaluation while it was still a private-held startup. (In vague that growth could spell AI’s appetite well that was around the corner.) It just moved later Find out how AI fits in that picture.. On the contrary, Peak is in an interesting state, OpenAI hits the market and creates AI assistants for businesses in the years before the widespread communication and stimulates a lot of hype, how AI will affect the business world.
The message was announced by the three founders of Peak Richard Potter (CEO) and Atul Sharma (CTO), three founders of Peak Richard Potter (CEO) and Atul Sharma (CTO), Richard Potter (CEO) and Atul Sharma (CEO).
Seamless integration, and buyers’ ready audiences for production, at least, are pitches. No matter what he suffers.
We are still looking for more details on the price of the deal. (Contact me If you have information.)
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