GotBot, founded in 2016 by Chris Green and Nick Argyros and based in Johannesburg with a Cape Town team, integrates artificial intelligence into retail and customer-relationship-management, ERP and telephony systems for financial services, insurance and retail clients. The startup operates a SaaS platform and is pushing automation across WhatsApp Business. It has signed corporate clients including Toyota, RCS, African Bank, Home Choice, Old Mutual Finance and Attacq Property Group. GotBot employs eight staff split between Cape Town (operations, development and DevOps) and Johannesburg (sales, administration and accounts), and maintains a sales director in the UK. Following a R2.5m investment from Capaci.Tech, the company has expanded its development and DevOps team to improve platform capabilities and is pursuing international interest from the US, India and South‑East Asia. The startup has also received offers for future funding rounds.

Total raised

$0M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Dec 2019