{"id":199336,"date":"2025-10-09T03:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199336\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T03:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:06:10","slug":"melbourne-ai-firm-buys-pathfindr-in-15-million-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199336\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne AI firm buys Pathfindr in $15 million deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Affinda Group, a 13-year-old Melbourne artificial intelligence software company, has made its first acquisition, buying out AI consultancy and training firm Pathfindr in a $15 million deal.<\/p>\n<p>The all-scrip deal will see Pathfindr\u2019s founder Dawid Naude, a former Accenture managing director, continue to run the company as part of Affinda\u2019s expanding operations. Its co-founders, Tim and Ben Toner, say Affinda has the potential to become a globally significant AI firm.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Affinda Group, a 13-year-old Melbourne artificial intelligence software company, has made its first acquisition, buying out AI consultancy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-199336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}