Postmates has acqui-hired mobile app developer Hey for an undisclosed sum, giving an exit to GV, the unit formerly known as Google Ventures.
GV, the corporate venturing subsidiary of internet technology group Alphabet, has exited US-based mobile journal developer Hey through an acquisition by local services gateway Postmates, TechCrunch reported yesterday.
Founded in 2012, Hey had developed an automatic journal app called Heyday as well as Stolen, a trading platform for Twitter profiles that was later relaunched as a celebrity-based trading game called Famous.
The terms of the purchase have not been revealed. Hey founder Siqi Chen will become Postmates’ senior director of…
