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Artificial intelligence is helping sales teams manage relationships and optimize the customer lifecycle.

Sales Engagement Platforms

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 Conversica is a sales intelligence platform that offers AI-powered virtual assistants for prospecting and lead management to support sales, marketing, and customer success teams. Its proprietary technology uses AI and natural language to provide multilingual and multichannel outreach (email, SMS, and website chat), decision and policy management, sales automation, guided selling as well as reporting and analytics. Additionally, the platform supports 50+ integrations with customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation platforms (MAP) as well as an open API for custom integration. In January 2018, the company established a regional presence in Latin America by acquiring the conversational AI platform Intelligens.ai. As of April 2022, the platform served more than 1,700 customers, which include MongoDB, Oracle, and Epson.
 
 
 The firm&rsquo;s edge is in its ability to increase workforce productivity without increasing headcount; the platform claimed that its AI assistants can manage the sales outreach of 10 sales development representatives (SDRs). Conversica initially focused on the automotive industry. In 2015, it expanded into other verticals, including technology, education, and financial services. The company claimed that a user (auto dealership) witnessed an engagement uptick of&nbsp; 80% (from 25%) and closed rates up by 24% (from 17%) within a year. In March 2022, the company announced, with the support of its automotive partner network, that it expects auto bookings growth of 44% YoY in Q1 2022.&nbsp;
 
 
 In October 2022, the company 
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 to empower the firm&rsquo;s Revenue Digital Assistants (RDAs) to carry out unscripted conversations with leads, prospects, and customers via web chat, SMS, and email. It also planned to deploy the NLP technology across channels like &quot;voice&quot; at a later date. In March 2024, the company 
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 two-way AI conversations solution
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 for marketing automation platforms (MAPs), which integrates real-time, AI-powered conversations directly into core marketing activities. 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 In May 2022, the company 
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 a B2B customer intelligence platform and account-based marketing (ABM) platform, allowing Conversica AI assistants to gather real-time account insights (based on industry, client characteristics, and buyer stage), powered by 6sense&rsquo;s proprietary technology, thereby empowering the sales, marketing, and customer success teams to deliver personalised client engagement. In June 2023, the firm 
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 integrating its generative AI-driven conversational platform with Salesforce Marketing Cloud to enable active engagement and personalized dialogue with leads and customers through email and SMS.
 
 
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 In April 2022, the company raised 
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 USD 25 million in a Series E funding
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 round led by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital. It intended to use the funds to execute its strategic initiatives to expand its suite of services and client base of mid-to-large businesses. In June 2021, the company reported subscription sales growth of 23% QoQ in Q1 2021, after an increase of 210% YoY in FY2020. Further, the company reported a 37% growth in average recurring revenue (ARR) in new bookings, which indicated traction amongst mid-to-large businesses, including Kofax, the Los Angeles Chargers, Olympia Entertainment, and Therapy Brands.
 
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Mystifly is an anywhere-to-anywhere B2B global airfare marketplace with fares from 900+ airlines, multi-GDS and also 170+ LCCs, across 70+ points of sale countries across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. The company focuses on applying the right mix of technology and inventive thought process to disrupt the air travel industry.

SKALE Labs is a blockchain scalability platform that provides high-speed consensus and empowers dApps to run smart contracts. SKALE acts as a middle-ware layer which provides high-speed consensus and empowers dApps to run smart contracts at the rate of millions per second on platforms such as Ethereum, EOS, and other Smart Contract Blockchain platforms. The SKALE Network is a fully decentralized, open-source P2P network that is run using the SKALE utility token which is staked by dApps and supported by SKALE Mining nodes.

Presto overlays next-gen digital solutions onto the physical world. Presto’s enterprise-grade voice, vision, and touch technologies help hospitality businesses thrive while delighting guests. With over 250,000 systems shipped, Presto is one of the largest labor automation technology providers in the industry. Founded at M.I.T. in 2008, Presto is headquartered in Silicon Valley, Calif. with customers including many of the top 20 restaurant chains in the U.S.

Conversica specializes in Intelligent Virtual Assistants for Customer Engagement. By automating routine business conversations, and personalizing interactions at scale, Conversica augments the workforce allowing business professionals and AI Assistants to work together harmoniously. The flagship Conversica Sales AI Assistant helps companies find and secure customers more quickly and efficiently by automatically contacting, engaging, qualifying, and following up with leads via natural, multi-channel, two-way conversations. With its large library of purpose-built and ready-to-use conversational skills backed by our patented conversational AI platform, Conversica’s AI Assistants can be deployed quickly, are human-like and personal, and provide superior conversational accuracy and autonomy.

TouchBistro is an iPad-based restaurant point-of-sale system enabling owners to manage reservations and take orders instantly. Instead of servers repeatedly moving between customers and terminals for order management, servers can remain with customers and instantly submit orders to the kitchen and bar. Servers no longer need to write down an order and then enter it into a distant terminal. TouchBistro's single entry system reduces errors and increases efficiency. Menu items can be presented in vibrant color with every detail captured and can be quickly and easily updated and even published to the Web, providing more dynamic impact than a traditional menu can provide.

Locus is a leading-edge technology company solving one of the most challenging global supply chain problems: last-mile logistics. Locus' order-to-delivery dispatch management platform helps enterprises transform their last-mile logistics operations into growth centers through advanced optimization algorithms and intuitive workflow automation that equip businesses with the tools needed to maximize efficiency while delighting customers. Founded in 2015 and backed by GIC Singapore, Qualcomm Ventures, Tiger Global, and Falcon Edge, Locus has helped a wide range of customers globally across industries– including Unilever, Nestle, Bukalapak, The Tata Group, BlueDart, and more – execute 650 million deliveries across 30+ countries across North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, ANZ, and the Indian subcontinent. Its technology has also helped save $200 million in transit costs, offsetting 70 million kilograms in CO2 emissions while maintaining a 99.5% SLA adherence ratio. The company powers deliveries across North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, ANZ, and the Indian Subcontinent. Visit www.locus.sh to know more!

Fintech company Rubique, demystifies complex financing processes and empowers individuals & SMEs by providing an easy & smooth access to finance through a wide range of credit cards & loan products thereby, making finance simple for them.  Built on a proprietary matchmaking algorithm, Rubique's marketplace lending platform offers breakthrough features like - real time processing & online approval by direct integration with financial institutions’ systems reducing the processing time significantly. Data analytics performed on hundreds of data points on Rubique's platform assesses the creditworthiness of customers (loan origination qualification) bringing predictability by giving him eligible offers to choose from. Rubique offers the best of both worlds – marketplace for the customer to get choices(eligible) + an end to end fulfillment support just like any lender.  Founded in Oct 2014, Fintech company Rubique aims to become the largest marketplace for financial products for individuals and SMEs.  In September 2015, Rubique raised Series A funding, led by Kalaari Capital, from YourNest Angel Fund, Globevestor and Dexter Angel Circle.

MoSeeker is an AI based social recruitment tool that provides recruiting technology solutions for talent acquisition teams to help them identify, attract, and engage candidates. It offers integration with all ATS systems, including Taleo, Kenexa, Lumesse, and Successfactors. MoSeeker is launched in 2014 and is based in Shanghai, China.

ShareBang is an intelligent social marketing system.

CleverTap is the all-in-one engagement platform that helps brands unlock limitless customer lifetime value by helping them create personalized experiences to retain their most valuable customers. The platform empowers businesses to orchestrate experiences for individuals across their lifecycles and design personalized journeys that span a lifetime. It offers analytics that encompasses every aspect of the lifecycle, enabling businesses to measure and optimize each experience in real-time. Its unique AI capability is insightful, empathetic, and prescriptive, facilitating smarter and faster decisions. The all-in-one platform unifies experiences from every touchpoint, paving the way for a new era of customer engagement. The platform is powered by TesseractDB™ – the world’s first purpose-built database for customer engagement, offering both speed and economies of scale. CleverTap is trusted by 2000 customers, including Electronic Arts, TiltingPoint, Gamebasics, Big Fish, MobilityWare, TED, English Premier League, TD Bank, Carousell, AirAsia, Papa John’s, and Tesco. Backed by leading investors such as Peak XV Partners, Tiger Global, Accel, CDPQ, and 360 One, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with presence in New York, São Paulo, Bogota, London, Amsterdam, Sofia, Dubai, Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Singapore, Jakarta, and Ho Chi Minh.

ScoreData helps businesses leverage their data to dramatically improve the quality of their engagement with their customers. ScoreData's ScoreFast™platform allows business managers and data scientists to work together to deploy the most robust predictive applications.    The applications have a unique self-learning capability, which obviates the need to rebuild the predictive applications as new data becomes available.  Not only do the predictive applications learn over time, but they are also shown to be robust, and thus you have the lowest cost of ownership for predictive applications in the industry.    Applications built with ScoreFast can be deployed across multiple touch-points such as in-store, mobile, web, kiosk, chatbots, or cloud-contact centers.  ScoreData solutions have been used by some of the largest companies in the world.

Huodongxing.com (活动行) is a platform for event registration and the sale of tickets online. It was launched by Beijing Aike Creative Information Technology Co., Ltd.  It offers services for event management and promotion, ticket purchasing, on-site registration, and more.  Huodongxing.com was officially launched in June 2012 and in October 2013 it was revised and optimized with additional features.

Edeng Platform operating company is an internet advertising platform that provides classified information. Their information service categories include housing rental and trading, job hunting and recruitment, merchandise, and second and goods, community services, finding a girlfriend or boyfriend, and other business information.

Studist develops and provides a manual creation and sharing platform ''Teachme Biz''. Teachme Biz is a platform that allows instant delivery and browsing management. It produces a standard work procedure manual based on images and videos. The company is a startup with the vision of eliminating a loss of information transmission in a company and realizing a “society where all of the intellectual vitality can be seen”.

Medcare is a medical service corporation.

Kaonavi  is  provide cloud human resource management.

MONEY DESIGN offers automated investment management and advisory services.

Independence Day is an internet platform that matches companies' needs with available spare time to provide employment services. In order to address businesses' temporary employment needs, they offer jobs to blue-collar workers and college students. It is a service platform that is offline.

EWeLL is a service that provides total support. The company develops cloud-based business support services for visiting nursing homes. They will bring forth new benefits for home care and lead to the realization of a society where everyone can live comfortably.

freee is automated online accounting software that syncs with your bank accounts and automatically categorise entries to create financial reports. freee was launched on Mar 19, 2013 and is offered to SMBs operating under the Japanese taxation system. It takes freemium model and its paid plan begins at 980 JPY (~10 USD) per month per business.   The company, formerly named as “CFO K.K.”, was founded in July 2012 led by Daisuke Sasaki, who previously headed up Google’s SMB marketing in Asia Pasific region. freee is the winner of Invinity Ventures Summit Launch Pad 2013 Spring, the most prestegious demo event in Japan.

K-engine services is Providing IT platform services and mobile communication services specialized in the housing industry.

Loco Partners, Inc. offers Relux. Relux is an accommodation reservation service with handpicked prestigious hotels and ryokans in Japan that can be reserved for a deal. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

ItoKuro is a Medical and Nursing Care company.

LIFENET INSURANCE COMPANY offers a range of insurance underwriting and asset management solutions. Its insurance products include death, medical, and disability insurance. The company also provides health counselling services. LIFENET INSURANCE COMPANY was founded in October 2006.

Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. is a global leader in HR technology and business solutions that is transforming the world of work. Recruit Group simplifies hiring for hundreds of millions of job seekers and millions of employers each month through its HR matching platforms such as Indeed, Glassdoor, Rikunabi and Townwork, and its global staffing business. The Group also provides marketing solutions in its home market of Japan by helping businesses work smarter through its matching platforms for housing, beauty, travel, bridal and dining, as well as cloud-based SaaS solutions. By leveraging its strength in hiring and marketing, Recruit Group is committed to drive positive impact on society and the planet. Founded in 1960 in Tokyo, Japan, Recruit Group operates in more than 60 countries.

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Designers of learning programs and creators of learning content, aggregators and libraries of learning content and program, massive open online course (MOOC) platform operators, and providers of content development tools for authoring and course-building.

Providers of tools and features to improve learner engagement and learning effectiveness such as AR/VR platforms, interactive software, memory aids, and personalized student support platforms.

Technology platforms such as learning management systems (LMS), learning experience platforms (LXP), and learning content management systems (LCMS) that host in-house or third-party content, track progress, and generate analytics.

Providers of testing and assessment, identity authentication, proctoring, plagiarism-checking, digital credentialing, and feedback-gathering solutions.

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Platforms that facilitate communication and networking among students/faculty/alumni/institutions and those providing search, reference, and marketplace solutions.

Providers of campus operating infrastructure including enterprise resource planning (ERP), student information system (SIS), and data analytics solutions and those that support enrollment and marketing processes. Also includes technology solution providers offering security, communication, cloud, and managed services.

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