[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]WI Harper Group | November 11, 2020 | Source: Avaamo[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1605141196926{background-color: #e4e4e4 !important;}”]WI Harper backed Avaamo has been named a leader in the Forrester New Wave™: Chatbots for IT Operations, Q4 2020, for the second year in a row. Forrester evaluated the nine most significant providers in the category and ranked them against ten criteria. What makes the award even more exciting is that Avaamo moved further into the leadership position, receiving the highest marks in the survey, thus validating the continuing success and adoption Avaamo’s platform has had with many Fortune 1,000 enterprises.
Avaamo continue to grow; automating over 2 Billion interactions in 2020 in 29 languages in over 40 countries. WI Harper has been an early investor in Avaamo since its Seed round in 2014. WIH continues to see Avaamo’s technology apply to a diverse range of industries and businesses, including: insurance, financial services, healthcare, telecommunications and retail.
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image source=”external_link” external_img_size=”800×400″ alignment=”center” custom_src=”https://wiharper.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-11-at-1.40.44-PM.png”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Avaamo’s Conversational AI platform received a “differentiated” rating—the highest rating available—in eight criteria, including Language Support, Road Map, Vision, Automation Capabilities, Languages, Tooling and Integration. Forrester also highlighted how Avaamo’s customers are seeing continued success in deflection and, significantly, actual resolution (90% in one case) of IT incidents before even raising a ticket.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
| Forrester’s evaluation found that Avaamo:
- Has robust language and integration capabilities.Avaamo boasts strong language learning and integration capabilities, supporting multiple languages, data ingestion tools, and multiple ML training mechanisms. it also has an integrations library that supports rPa-type connectors to integrate into any enterprise environment.
- Is best for those that need a mature chatbot for a complex environment.With complex environment integrations, strong language support, and high development requirements, Avaamo is best suited for large enterprises looking to automate IT workloads and more.
- Avaamo’s customers are very impressed with the solution.Avaamo’s customers have seen significant automation benefits from adoption (one saw 90% deflection), and are expanding to new use cases.
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Being enterprise-ready requires not just a platform that can check all the security and compliance requirements, but also provides a rich set of tooling allowing various defined users in the enterprise to be involved in the lifecycle of a virtual agent. With a comprehensive set of tooling for design, lifecycle management, deployment, and learning, Avvamo enable enterprises to rapidly deploy virtual assistants that, importantly, scale across the enterprise.
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“We are very excited about the progress our team has made in the last few years and the wide variety of use-cases that our platform is getting used for in the enterprise from automating IT ticket resolution to responding to HR or finance related questions for employees. Today, we have virtual assistants deployed globally that are automating billions of conversations every day, across 100’s of enterprises in 40 countries and answering queries in in 29 languages. We are just getting started on the journey and would love to see how we can help you in your journey with Conversational AI and Virtual Assistants,” shared Sriram Chakravarthy, CTO & Co-founder of Avaamo.
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| About Avaamo
Avaamo is a deep-learning software company that specializes in conversational interfaces to solve specific, high impact problems in the enterprise. Avaamo is building fundamental AI technology across a broad area of neural networks, speech synthesis and deep learning to make conversational computing for the enterprise a reality.
Previously, Avaamo raised $14.2 million in series Aas the company seeks to expand its AI-based chat services. The round was led by Intel Capital, but also included investment from Ericsson Ventures, Mahindra Partners, Wipro Ventures, and WI Harper.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
| About WI Harper Group
WI Harper is a pioneer and leading cross-border venture capital firm investing in early and expansion stage companies globally. With offices in San Francisco, Beijing, and Taipei, the firm actively oversees more than $1 billion in assets under management. Since inception nearly three decades ago, WI Harper has invested in over 400 startups and has successfully experienced more than 100 IPO and M&A exits.
We look for innovative companies and visionary founders in healthcare, technology and sustainability fields where there are high synergies and meaningful value-added cross selling opportunities. While our healthcare team is presently honing on bioinformatics and digital biology, our technology team is focused blockchain, big data, analytics, artificial intelligence, AR/VR, IoT, robotics, drones, autonomous driving, as well as digital media and green energy projects.
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