📅 - Fred Wang, an investor and general partner of Harvest.ai, has confirmed that the company has been acquired by Amazon Web Services for a reported sum of $19 million. The deal apparently took place sometime in 2016.
Wang, declined to give further details on the deal, but did tell GeekWire that “it was a good win for the investors and for the management team.”
Harvest.ai had been founded in September of 2014 by two former NSA employees.
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