HCLSoftware to Acquire Belgian AI Startup Wobby to Enhance Data Analytics

HCLSoftware, the software division of HCLTech, which is an Indian IT giant, has made a public announcement about its decision to acquire Wobby, a start-up focusing on developing AI-based products located in Antwerp, Belgium, through cash transactions amounting to approximately €4.5 million (around $5.2 million).

One of the main reasons behind the move is to fuse the agent-based AI analytics with the already existing enterprise solutions of the company so as to make HCLSoftware’s data and AI capabilities stronger than before.

Wobby, the start-up in question, creates AI-powered data analyst agents, enabling business users to query and receive responses from extensive and complicated data sets in a manner that resembles human communication. This company has its platform that makes use of specialized semantic layers along with agentic architecture to accomplish the imaginative conversion from easy language inquiries to analytical operations.

The enterprise customers would receive the benefit of lessening the data accessibility challenge and quicker decision-making that will come along with the use of this technology since the very lengthy query and analysis processes will be automated. The offerings from Wobby correspond to the trends in the area of business intelligence and analytics that are more and more coming up with the simplified interfaces and AI-assisted insight generation as the major demand.

HCLSoftware’s Actian data and AI division will be the one that the acquisition will impact positively as this division already has a good demand for its services in metadatas management, data cataloguing, and data governance tools. HCLSoftware will be able to provide richer self-service analytics by integrating natural language and agentic AI features and thereby facilitating the clients to derive meaningful insights from raw data in large volumes.

HCLSoftware’s CEO, Marc Poëer, had mentioned that organizations tend more and more to seek reliable, AI-based analytics which work on a governed semantic layer that offers not only query responses but also contextual, precise insights.
Amra Dorjbayar, the CEO, and co-founder of Wobby stated that the company’s technology is altering the conventional business intelligence considerably by making it possible for AI agents to take over analytical workflows and provide considerate insights. The partnership with HCLSoftware is anticipated to not only increase Wobby’s market but also speed up the process of innovation.

Dorjbayar thinks that the combination of Wobby’s agentic AI with the enterprise size and market power of HCLSoftware will give the customers in different industries the rare opportunity to avail of the analytics capabilities that are going to be scaled.
The acquisition highlights a larger trend in the industry where big IT and software companies are looking to gain by acquiring AI startups for their analytics and data resort. It is seen that natural language-enabled analytics are becoming more and more necessary in supporting organizations to democratize data access and to cut down technical expertise’s involvement in generating insights.

For HCLSoftware, the addition of the agentic AI is nothing but a strategic move that would significantly enhance its competitive position in the domain of data intelligence. Real-time, conversational analytics are, in fact, being demanded everywhere and this adding is just a variation of the same mainstream practice.

The transaction is expected to be finalized by February 2026, following the customary regulatory approvals and the meeting of the conditions involved. Once the process is done, HCLSoftware will incorporate the Wobby technology in its product portfolio and offer the robust analytics capabilities to its worldwide customers.