![]() Its clients include the likes of Unilever, Schlumberger, AXA, AIG, Bajaj Finance, HDFC Bank, Asian Paints, Dr. Some of the biggest brands across these diverse industries have adopted the Yellow Messenger technology. The proprietary technology is industry agnostic and it is currently serving 10 industry verticals including retail, travel & hospitality, banking, insurance, pharma & healthcare, energy, and consumer goods. ![]() Yellow Messenger’s strength lies in its unique NLP technology that seamlessly understands over 130 languages including English, Hindi, Bahasa, Cantonese, Thai, Mandarin, and Arabic. Haptik cofounder and CEO Aakrit Vaish has written that the conversational AI world has come a long way from being just a novelty item for businesses to being a feature with actual, substantial quantitative and qualitative advantages.Angel investors that participated in the current round include Phanindra Sama, founder, Redbus, Anand Swaminathan, senior partner, McKinsey & Co, Prashant Malik, co-founder, Limeroad, and Kunal Bahl, co-founder of Snapdeal among other individual investors. Yellow.ai competes with the players such as Haptik, which was recently acquired by Reliance Jio. The company has also deployed special chatbots for enterprises to deal with employee engagement, customer engagement, and ITSM automation, helping them drive business continuity. In response to Covid-19, Yellow.ai, in partnership with Facebook Messenger, has been appointed by the National Health Authority of India to provide chatbots to several state governments (Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, and Rajasthan) to assist with citizen engagement over WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. “This investment will help us scale our operations and speed track the R&D endeavours to service the surge in global demand for automation,” he added. Raghu Ravinutala, CEO and cofounder, Yellow.ai said that the company has achieved 5X growth in bookings, year over year, since 2017. Ever since we met the Yellow.ai team at our Lightspeed Extreme Entrepreneurs program in 2018, we have seen how the company has taken advantage of this market pull with its rapid time-to-value, transactional platform and multi-language support for global rollouts,” said Dev Khare, Partner, Lightspeed India Partners. “One in every three companies globally is implementing conversational AI and chatbots-the pull is irreversible. The company has also forged deep go-to-market partnerships with Microsoft, TCS, WhatsApp, Facebook and more. The company claimed that it is powering 30 Mn monthly conversations on chatbots, across more than 100 customers around the globe, including BYJU’S, Domino’s India, Flipkart, etc. Yellow.ai enables enterprises to automate and orchestrate workflows for customer and employee engagement with minimal human intervention, utilising chatbots across multiple communication channels like Microsoft Teams, Slack, WhatsApp, phone calls, digital assistants and integrated with the enterprise’s existing system of record and system of engagement. In addition, Yellow.ai will invest further in its product innovation roadmap, including deepening multilingual voice bot capabilities, expanding enterprise integrations, and launching a developer marketplace for virtual assistants.įounded in 2016 by Raghu Ravinutala, Rashid Khan and Jaya Kishore Reddy, Yellow.ai deploys artificial intelligence (AI) to help enterprises reach and engage with customers conversationally, and through myriad ways. With this round, the total funding raised by Yellow.ai is $24 Mn. The company said that it will use the funds to fuel international growth across the US, Europe, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific markets. ![]() Bengaluru-based conversational AI solutions provider Yellow.ai has raised $20 Mn in Series B funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lightspeed India Partners.
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