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Several days ago the news broke that Mozilla bought two startups at oncez, one of them Activate Replica and Pulse. The cost and details of the deals were not disclosed.
Active Replica is a young startup developing services for the metaverse. The founders of the project, Jacob Ervin and Valerian Denis. Mozilla plans to use technologies developed at Active Replica to bring new features to Hubs, expand personalized subscriptions, improve the Hubs registration process, and more.
The agreement from Mozilla with Active Replica as well is part of its ecosystem of creators Hubs that offers services to improve digital experiences. This acquisition has officially pushed the web developer into the field of metaverse and Web3 development.
Mozilla further stated that the addition of Active Replica to its portfolio is an important event because it will be very useful for accelerating work on demand, as well as onboarding improvements, custom subscription levels and the introduction of new features in Hubs engines.
Firefox isn't the only side that will benefit from the deal, but it is also advantageous for Active República, since they can provide what each one needs and share experience in their respective fields, which can be applied when developing and operating their businesses.
Active Replica said it would continue to work with its other existing partners, but Mozilla's acquisition of the company will help it further expand its long-term goals. Meanwhile, Mozilla's plans to build out its metaverse space come as the virtual world continues to cause a stir and attract the attention of big business.
The Startup Active Replica will join the Mozilla Hubs team which develops the Hubs platform. Hubs is an experimental virtual reality platform for communication and collaboration, virtual meetings and events.
“Today is an extremely exciting day for Active Replica as we officially join Mozilla! Active Replica has spent nearly three years helping communities stay connected and grow even bigger,” said Jacob Ervin, co-founder and CEO of Active Replica, Jacob Ervin, and Valerian Denis, co-founder and COO, in a joint statement. statement _ “Our mission was simple: use virtual worlds to facilitate joyful gatherings.”
Pulse, an AI company that offers real-time status update services
Based in Silicon Valley (but with Canadian roots), Pulse (formerly Loop Team) provides automatic status update integration for Slack. The startup was founded in 2019 by Raj Singh (CEO) and Jag Shravan (CTO) from Canada. for the part of the acquisition of Pulse, we can mention that this is a machine learning company that will join the Mozilla team. Pulse developments are intended to be used to customize Mozilla services.
Press develops services to automatically update user statuses in real time in various messengers, based on calendar events, apps used, and other user activities.
Through an API, users can sync Pulse with their calendars and other productivity apps, like Slack, to set up rules that automate status updates based on keywords in event titles. Under its initial name, Pulse offered a virtual office platform until it changed its name last November.
In 2019, Toronto venture capital fund Golden Ventures invested in Pulse when the company was still called Loop.
Pulse announced at the end of October that it would close, citing "market conditions" and difficulties in raising new capital. Singh told BetaKit that the fundraising plan fell through after the co-founders "made acquisition decisions" that culminated in its sale to Mozilla.
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as always, mozilla getting into where it shouldn't, to end up failing, when they would only have to focus solely and exclusively on Firefox and Firefox would be something else and mozilla would do much better.