Chatbot introduction tool Bottr.me has raised an undisclosed quantity of investment from 500 Startups; Purvi Capital; Rajan Anandan (Vice President, Southeast Asia and India, Google); and Abhishek Gupta from TLabs.
The startup will use the newly raised price range for group growth and product development. It is presently seeking to decorate its person base and input B2B class as well.
Launched in non-public beta in advance this year, California-situated Bottr.me lets in customers to create an AI-primarily based totally digital avatar. The founding group consists of Abhimanyu Godara, Mayank Agarwal, Arjun S Kumar and Uday Krishan.
Abhimanyu Godara, founder and CEO of Bottr said, “Chatbots have the ability to update apps and web sites withinside the close to destiny for one sole reason. They provide person revel in withinside the maximum rawest and herbal form – conversation. Messaging and AI were the most important tendencies of this decade and a horizontal platform with community efforts has massive ability to make this happen.”
With Bottr.me, customers can construct an interactive private bot which can maintain conversations on all social channels on their behalf. The bot can act as their private page, FAQ assistant, customer support agent, wealthy microblog, interactive resume and more. These bots may be utilized by influencers, bloggers, creators, freelancers, startups etc. to give themselves online.
In addition to the investment, Bottr.me additionally delivered a brand new update – which provides capabilities which includes stay chat and coping with workplace hours.Currently, Bottr.me has a seven-member group. The corporation claims to have over 5,000 bots on its platform. Bottr.me claims that its person base incorporates approximately 20K traffic from over one hundred countries.
In May 2016, AI-primarily based totally chatbot Niki.ai raised $2 Mn Series A investment from the worldwide chief in commercial enterprise control software program SAP and present investor Ronnie Screwvala’s Unilazer Ventures.Other startups on this section that facilitate bot introduction equipment consist of Meya.ai, Microsoft Bot Framework, approximately.me Gupshup, Skedool, etc.
