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Formerly Insait, led by Team8 and Planven with several banks and insurers that became investors after first being customers. The technique analyzes call recordings, emails, and texts to identify which conversational approaches produce successful outcomes, then trains agents on those patterns, explicitly positioned as revenue generation rather than headcount reduction. About 50 people, 30+ deployments across Israel, Australia, Europe, and the US. Buyers converting to investors is becoming the standard proof point in regulated-vertical AI rounds.
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Sandhya Devanathan departs after more than a decade to run consumer growth, enterprise adoption, partnerships, regulatory engagement and operations across Southeast Asia and Australia, based in Singapore, reporting to APAC managing director Kiran Mani. It follows Prabhjeet Sin...
Announced August 27, the third market after the US in February and Europe earlier this month, launching with 50 brands and agency partners WPP and Omnicom, with an ad manager arriving next month setting a minimum daily campaign budget of ₹725 (TechCrunch). India carries more t...
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