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   <title>MoEngage Acquires Aampe to Advance AI-Powered Customer Engagement</title>
   <updated>2026-06-24T17:00:00+02:00</updated>
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      <p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">MoEngage, a customer engagement platform powered by agentic AI and used by more than 1,350 consumer brands worldwide, has announced the acquisition of San Francisco-based Aampe, a company specializing in AI infrastructure that assigns an autonomous AI agent to each individual customer.<o:p></o:p> <br />    <p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">The deal represents an important step in MoEngage's evolution as a global SaaS provider. By integrating Aampe's reinforcement learning technology directly into its platform, MoEngage is creating a unified ecosystem where marketer-focused workflow agents and customer-specific decisioning agents work together seamlessly. This integration enables genuine one-to-one personalization at enterprise scale.<o:p></o:p> <br />    <p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">Traditional personalization strategies often reach a point where scaling becomes increasingly complex. As customer engagement programs expand, organizations must manage growing numbers of audience segments, customer journeys, experiments, and operational resources. Many existing decisioning systems also require teams to rebuild intelligence and context from scratch whenever new campaigns or initiatives are launched, limiting long-term learning and efficiency.<o:p></o:p> <br />    <p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">MoEngage has strengthened its position across Europe, helping consumer brands address stricter data privacy requirements while meeting rising customer expectations for relevant and personalized experiences. Aampe's privacy-first design complements this mission by avoiding the storage of personally identifiable information and instead relying on anonymized behavioral data. This approach aligns with modern data minimization principles while still enabling individualized customer engagement. As MoEngage expands globally, the company continues to support brands in delivering highly personalized interactions at scale.<o:p></o:p> <br />    <p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">"Every marketer aims to reach customers with the right message at the right time," said Raviteja Dodda, Co-founder and CEO of MoEngage. "The real challenge has always been having the infrastructure to make that possible. Aampe has developed a capability that continuously optimizes content, timing, communication channels, and message frequency for every individual user. Equally impressive is the expertise of the team behind it. Paul, Schaun, Sami, and the entire Aampe organization combine deep research knowledge with the operational discipline needed to solve one of marketing's most difficult challenges. Together, we are shaping the future of agentic marketing."<o:p></o:p> <br />    <p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">MoEngage has already invested significantly in AI-driven marketing through its Merlin AI platform. Aampe enhances these capabilities with advanced agentic decision-making technology that has been tested by some of the world's leading consumer brands. Each AI agent independently determines what content to deliver, when to send it, how frequently to communicate, and which channel to use, while continuously learning from customer responses. Marketers retain control over content, objectives, and operational boundaries, while the AI manages execution and provides full visibility into its decisions.<o:p></o:p> <br />    <p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">Paul Meinshausen, Co-founder and CEO of Aampe, explained the company's vision: "We built Aampe around a simple principle—one agent for each user rather than one model for an entire segment. Each agent develops an ongoing understanding of an individual's behavior, preferences, and engagement patterns. Because the system learns from underlying meaning rather than isolated messages, knowledge accumulates over time instead of resetting with every interaction. By joining forces with MoEngage, we gain the infrastructure, channel capabilities, and customer reach needed to make this approach widely available."<o:p></o:p> <br />    <p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">Following the acquisition, Aampe's founding leadership team—Paul Meinshausen, Schaun Wheeler, and Sami Abboud—will join MoEngage to spearhead its Agentic Decisioning initiatives. Existing Aampe customers will continue to receive uninterrupted service while benefiting from MoEngage's expanded engineering, data science, and customer success resources.<o:p></o:p> <br />    <p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">Aampe's technology is already being used by prominent consumer brands such as Taxfix, ZenBusiness, Grab, and Swiggy. The platform currently operates hundreds of millions of dedicated AI agents and evaluates more than 200 billion decisions every week.<o:p></o:p> <br />    <p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">One example of the technology's effectiveness comes from Taxfix, a leading European AI-powered digital tax management platform. Instead of relying on conventional segmentation and predefined customer journeys, Taxfix deployed Aampe's model of assigning a dedicated AI agent to each user.<o:p></o:p> <br />    <p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">Alex Beresford, Chief Growth Officer at Taxfix, noted that Aampe outperformed the company's rule-based CRM system—which had been refined over four years—by 50%. The deployment also generated a 40% increase in revenue compared with a global control group and achieved break-even within a month. According to Beresford, the cost efficiency of Aampe was between 120 and 150 times greater than advertising spend used to drive comparable customer retention outcomes.<o:p></o:p> <br />    <p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">The acquisition also introduces MoEngage's "Start Anywhere" model. Brands can integrate Aampe's individual-agent technology into their existing marketing automation or customer engagement platforms without disrupting current operations. Existing MoEngage customers, meanwhile, gain direct access to Aampe's capabilities through native integration. In both cases, advanced individual-level decisioning becomes available without requiring major platform changes.<o:p></o:p> <br />    <p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">Additionally, the merger brings together the AI research teams of both organizations under a shared mission: advancing the next generation of agentic marketing. By combining Aampe's research expertise with the large-scale production environment provided by MoEngage's global customer network, the companies aim to accelerate innovation and expand the practical applications of AI-driven customer engagement.<o:p></o:p> <br />  
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   <title>Kingfisher and Google Cloud Partner to Launch AI-Powered Shopping Experience</title>
   <updated>2026-03-18T11:07:00+01:00</updated>
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      <div style="text-align: justify;">Kingfisher plc, a leading global home improvement retailer, has announced a multi-year collaboration with Google Cloud aimed at transforming the online shopping experience through agentic AI. <br />   <br />  Leveraging Google Cloud’s technology, Kingfisher plans to go beyond conventional keyword searches across its brands—including B&amp;Q, Castorama in France and Poland, and Brico Dépôt France—by introducing AI-driven shopping assistants that anticipate customer needs. <br />   <br />  The partnership focuses on two main initiatives:</div>    <ul>  	<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Enhanced search with Vertex AI:</strong> Kingfisher is adopting Vertex AI Search for Commerce, shifting from basic keyword-based searches to more natural, conversational discovery. This approach aligns with modern shopping habits, enabling faster and more accurate results. Initial testing at B&amp;Q has already delivered promising outcomes.</li>  </ul>    <div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div>    <ul>  	<li style="text-align: justify;"><strong>AI-powered proactive shopping:</strong> By utilizing Google Cloud’s capabilities, Kingfisher aims to leverage its extensive product and data assets to create intelligent shopping agents. These AI assistants will help customers plan complex home improvement projects, generate optimized shopping lists, and complete purchases seamlessly.</li>  </ul>    <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br />  Thierry Garnier, CEO of Kingfisher plc, commented: “Partnering with Google Cloud allows us to offer AI-enhanced shopping experiences, making it easier for customers to find and purchase home improvement products. These investments position Kingfisher at the forefront of AI-driven retail, driving meaningful innovation within our growing digital ecosystem and addressing the evolving expectations of our customers.” <br />   <br />  Matt Renner, President and Chief Revenue Officer at Google Cloud, added: “Kingfisher is redefining how retailers can harness cloud technology to tackle complex customer challenges. By integrating Vertex AI and preparing its data for an agentic future, Kingfisher is creating genuinely helpful, conversational shopping experiences. We are proud to support their digital transformation across the UK and Europe.” <br />   <br />  This agreement builds on Kingfisher’s existing use of Google Cloud to enhance digital operations and drive omnichannel growth, which has already contributed to e-commerce making up more than 20% of Group sales. It also complements the success of Kingfisher’s proprietary AI platform, Athena, launched in 2023, which powers virtual assistants such as Hello Casto and Hello B&amp;Q. <br />   <br />  Additionally, Kingfisher collaborates closely with Google’s Ads and Shopping teams to boost online performance. Central to these efforts is the modernization of Nucleus, Kingfisher’s data lake, which provides a secure and scalable foundation for current and future AI initiatives.</div>  
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