INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
part of a $27 million Series C investment in Tact.ai, a startup that has been trying to change the way sales people interact with
as strategic investors in the company this round
Traditional VCs Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Upfront Ventures also participated
Tact has now raised over $53 million, according to Crunchbase.Amazon is of course deeply invested in voice interfaces and has recognized
what Tact is trying to do in an enterprise setting with this investment
Bernard, Director of the Amazon Alexa Fund said
improve the voice experience in the car
Sales people spend much of their time in the car, and the tool can not only give them the basics about the next meeting, it can also provide
details about the deal and other relevant information, such as recently filed service tickets
professionals who are on the road, keeping their eyes on the road ahead, so we are pushing information to them and initiating a
with a central place for storing customer data, an electronic rolodex of sorts, but entering and retrieving data has mostly been a chore for
Ganapathi launched Tact in 2012 with the vision of using voice to help make it easier to interact with these tools
He was clearly ahead of his time, but the technology has finally caught up with his idea, and the strategic investors in this deal certainly
recognize the value of a voice interface for sales people.Ganapathi says the idea behind Tact is to reduce the friction involved in adding
and retrieving information from the database, and making life easier for sales to do their job
