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These days , it seems like every company either wants to or is already offering an AI product or servicing . For startups building an AI mathematical product in this quad , it ’s a really good time , but they are n’t without their challenges — the technical school is still early , and though many companies are concerned in trying generative AI result , theyhave been dumb to adopt it .
There arenumerous reasonswhy , but what looks like first is the fright of AI hallucinations . “ You ca n’t use [ AI ] in production for large endeavour if it lie , ” said Pavitar Singh , co - father and CEO ofUnifyApps .
Singh finger his inauguration has a upright solution for that : UnifyApps fundamentally connects a company ’s SaaS apps and data to each other , and lets companies build and deploy their own AI chatbots on top to interface with all the information . This approaching , he say , dish out to minimize AI hallucinations , because UnifyApps ’ agents can basically vet each other ’s end product based on the caller ’s data .
UnifyApps is new to an already crowd place — bigwigs like Workato and Zapier already volunteer similar “ fusion ” services , as do a slew of other inauguration . But Singh believes his startup ’s AI - concentrate approach gives it an edge because it bake in the ability to build up AI chatbots . “ initiative can build any bit of agent : They can assist HR , sale , marketing , effectual , or finance , ” he say .
company may be hesitating to espouse reproductive AI , but UnifyApps has already appeal more than 20 customer , admit one of the heavy bank in the world and a great telecommunication provider , Singh said .
Good traction is a great smell for a young inauguration , and investor seem to agree . The company just farm a $ 20 million Series A funding around from ICONIQ Growth , less than six months after UnifyApps closed a $ 11 million seminal fluid pear-shaped .
Singh set up UnifyApps last year after pass more than 11 years as CTO of Sprinklr , a client experience direction weapons platform for global steel , which go public in 2021 .
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While only a minority of ICONIQ Growth ’s investments are in Series A startups , the firm was well acquainted with Singh . “ Pavitar was the sick scientist mavin that was progress all the incredible products for Sprinklr , ” tell Matt Jacobson , a general cooperator at ICONIQ .
ICONIQ had invested in Sprinklr ’s Series D in 2014 , and Jacobson drop many year serve on the caller ’s board . He tell he was so impressed with Singh and what he was doing at UnifyApps , that he could n’t pass up adorn in the startup .
“ stake have puzzle much high-pitched with AI applications programme , ” Jacobson say .
UnifyApps has 150 employees across offices in Gurgaon , Dubai , and New York .
As for why the company has such a big squad , Singh said UnifyApps wants to ensure its product is flawless so that large enterprise can “ adopt it safely . ”
