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Prezi Acquires Infogram

Prezi, the visual presentation platform that helps people connect more powerfully with their audiences and customers, today announced it has acquired Infogram, a leading, web-based data visualisation company. Infogram specialises in charts and infographics for customers who need to quickly and effectively convey complex ideas. This is Prezi’s first acquisition and financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Story + Data = The Future of Visual Communications

“Prezi was inspired to unite with Infogram because of our shared mission to help people make better decisions by providing more effective tools for visual communication,” said Peter Arvai, Prezi’s CEO and co-founder. “If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the data that backs it up makes it credible. And without a story, data falls flat in effectiveness.”

“Joining forces with Prezi means our mission to bring beautiful and informative infographics and other data visualisation technologies to more users will happen even faster,” said Mikko Järvenpää, Infogram’s CEO. “With Prezi, we will continue our work as a world leader in data visualisation to create more powerful, delightful and useful products than ever before.”

Founded in 2012 and based in Latvia, Infogram has exploded in popularity and emerged as an innovator in the area of data visualisation and has over 3 million users, who have created over 5 million charts and infographics that have been viewed over 1.5 billion times. Infogram conveniently offers multiple data import options. Users can create a variety of charts, maps, and infographics by simply uploading a file, connecting to various cloud services, or taking advantage of Infogram’s API.

Infogram has been adopted by a wide variety of customers, including media companies, key businesses, and educational institutions. Infogram is also the most successful startup that has originated from Latvia—just as Prezi is the most successful startup that incubated in Hungary and bridged that success to create a global company with offices in San Francisco, Budapest and Mexico City.

What’s Next?

Infogram will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Prezi and will remain in Latvia. Prezi will continue to invest in research and development of Infogram and will create a Data Visualisation Center of Excellence in Latvia.

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