InvoiceSmash Acquisition: Coupa Attempts to Smash Other E-Invoicing and Supplier Networks

Coupa announced Monday it had acquired InvoiceSmash, an upstart vendor from Australia that looks somewhat similar, on the surface, to the type of PDF extraction e-invoicing services offered by providers like Transcepta and Tradeshift, among others, that extract data and metadata from documents and then present them in an easy to leverage format from an accounts payable automation.