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Futr

The Metal Box Factory, 30 Great Guildford Street, London, England, SE1 0HS, United Kingdom

Overview

Futr provides live chat and customer service chatbot solutions that include out-of-hours self-serve bots and tools to make live chat agents instantly multilingual across social and chat channels. Its products support teams across housing, the police, central and local government, and private sector organisations. The company is headquartered in London and was founded in 2017 by Andy Wilkins and Lee Skyrme. In April 2022 Futr raised a new funding round of £2.1M, bringing total investment to date to nearly £5M. The company intends to use the proceeds to continue expanding operations and its business reach. The article does not disclose revenue or user metrics. Futr. builds chatbot and conversational AI technology that organisations use to deliver services via channels like Alexa, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. The platform supports over 100 languages and is deployed across central and local government, the police and the private sector. The company is London-based and was founded in 2017 by Andy Wilkins and Lee Skyrme. Futr. raised £2.4m in seed funding from Praetura Ventures. It intends to use the funds to grow its team of developers, data engineers and data scientists. The company says its technology simplifies how organisations deliver their services on the channels that their staff and consumers use every day.

Total raised
$6M
Funding rounds
2
Latest round
Equity
Latest activity
Apr 2022

Industries

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Chatbot
  • Information Technology
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Software
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Recent funding

  1. Equity

    Apr 2022

    $3M

  2. Seed

    Jul 2019

    $3M

Team