Email database company TowerData Inc. has acquired marketing data company Rapleaf Data. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

TowerData will add Rapleaf’s demographic, purchase and interest data, covering about 80% of all email addresses in the U.S., to its email validation service, allowing users to clean and enhance email databases at the same time. The acquisition is expected to bolster TowerData’s Email Intelligence product, which provides information about the identity and behavior of email recipients, the companies said in a joint statement.

About Rapleaf:  Its mission is to make it incredibly easy for marketers to access the data they need to personalize content for their customers.  Rapleaf’s management are consumers too, and love it when marketing messages are relevant.  Therefore Rapleaf fuel marketing automation tools with the necessary data to help brands keep their customers happy and engaged.

Source: btoonline.com

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