Pinterest has acquired VisualGraph, a builder of image recognition and visual search technology which was founded only in 2010.
Pinterest says “the acquisition of VisualGraph will help us build technology to better understand what people are Pinning. By doing so, we hope to make it easier for people to find the things they love.”
VisualGraph is Pinterest’s fourth acquisition.Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The company’s two employees, founder Kevin Jing and his partner David Liu will be joining the Pinterest engineering team today.
Jing worked as a Senior Research Scientist/Tech-lead at Google.Here helped to develop the first image processing application in 2004. Liu also held internships at Google and Facebook and recently completed his master’s degree in computer science at Stanford.
