Riiid: Korea's edu tech startup Riiid acquires Japanese mobile app distributor

Riiid, a South Korean artificial intelligence-based education tech company, has acquired Langoo, the Japanese distributor of its service, in an effort to expand its business in the world's third-largest economy, the company said Saturday. The acquisition is coming less than five months after it secured $175 million in series D funding solely raised from Japan's Softbank's Vision Fund 2, and is part of the company's broader strategy to expand through mergers and acquis