Artificial intelligence startup Kasisto raised a $9.2 million Series A round that was led by Propel Venture Partners; the company intends to use the funds to expand into new markets, grow the engineering and sales teams and develop partnerships with systems integrators to enhance their platform; Kasisto is a fintech startup that lets companies engage and transact with their customers through natural, intelligent conversations via smart bots and virtual assistants. Source
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Artificial intelligence firm Cleo has raised 550,000 British pounds ($626,300) from angel investors; investors included Niklas Zennström, Jason Goodman, Alex Chesterman, Siraj Khaliq, Errol Damelin, Simon Franks, Wendy White and Joe White; Cleo is an AI-powered service working in connection with AI robots like Amazon Alexa to offer consumers personal finance advice; firm plans to use the new capital to further develop its technology and increase its user base of clients which are primarily in the UK. Source
A new report from Numis entitled The State of AI in 2017 explains the potential AI and machine learning for wealth managers; as AltFi reports, “AI enables asset managers to deliver to the mass affluent a degree of personalisation and service quality previously reserved for high net worth clients.”; the technology can also help to improve quality, decrease cost and help to make most of the asset management industry into robo advisors. Source.
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