{"id":399408,"date":"2026-11-10T05:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T05:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/399408\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T05:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T05:02:09","slug":"greater-cincinnati-startup-sold-to-nyc-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/399408\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater Cincinnati startup sold to NYC firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/cincinnati\/news\/2026\/11\/03\/flamel-ai-startup-acquired-yext-paid-marketing.?utm_source=sy&amp;utm_medium=ptr&amp;utm_campaign=local12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cincinnati Business Courier<\/a>) &#8211; Cincinnati has notched its fifth startup acquisition of 2026 as a publicly traded New York City firm has finalized its purchase of a Northern Kentucky firm.<\/p>\n<p>Yext (NYSE: YEXT), an agentic marketing company that employs 1,120 worldwide, closed on its acquisition of Covington-based Flamel.ai, effective Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<p>The companies signed a definitive agreement in September.<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms were not disclosed. Yext said it funded the purchase with cash on hand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/cincinnati\/news\/2026\/11\/03\/flamel-ai-startup-acquired-yext-paid-marketing.?utm_source=sy&amp;utm_medium=ptr&amp;utm_campaign=local12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read the full story<\/a> from the Cincinnati Business Courier.<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati Business Courier is a Local 12 News partner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (Cincinnati Business Courier) &#8211; Cincinnati has notched its fifth startup acquisition of 2026 as a publicly traded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-399408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}