Tech Company Financing Transactions

Kasisto Funding Round

On 1/10/2017, Kasisto received $9.2 million in Series A financing from Propel Venture Partners, Commerce Ventures and DBS Bank.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Kasisto
Announced On
1/10/2017
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Venture Equity
Amount
$9,200,000
Round
Series A
Investors

Propel Venture Partners (Lead Investor) (Thomas Whiteaker)

Commerce Ventures

DBS Bank (Piyush Gupta)

Harvard Angel Group

MasterCard

New York Angels (Jeffrey Seltzer)

Partnership for New York City Fund

Two Sigma Ventures

Proceeds Purpose
Kasisto has established itself as an early leader in conversational AI, and the new capital will be used to scale its business to new markets, grow the engineering and sales teams, and develop partnerships with leading systems integrators to meet the increasing demand for its products. In addition, the investment will be used to enhance and extend KAI, the company's platform that lets companies engage and transact with their customers via natural, intelligent conversations.

Company Information

Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Mobile
Mailing Address
43 W 24th St.
New York, NY 10010
USA
Phone
Undisclosed
Website
www.kasisto.com
Email Address
[email protected]
Overview
Kasisto was founded in 2013 with the vision of helping consumers in everyday customer interactions through intelligent conversations on any device. We started by enabling financial institutions to add virtual personal assistants to their mobile and tablet offerings.
Profile
Kasisto LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
Kasisto Company Twitter Account
Company News
Kasisto News
Facebook
Kasisto on Facebook
YouTube
Kasisto on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Zor Gorelov
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Chief Marketing Officer
Stephen Epstein
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Chief Operating Officer
Ruth Brown
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Chief Technical Officer
Sasha Caskey
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Vice President
Meyer Goldstein
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Vice President
Marcus Toh
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Vice President
George Trad
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VP - Engineering
Richard Ciapala
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VP - Finance
Chris Martel
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