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Passage AI

465 Fairchild Drive Suite 124, Mountain View, CA, 94043, United States

Overview

Passage AI develops AI-powered conversational interfaces and a no-code bot-building tool that can be deployed anywhere in as little as two weeks. Its deep learning model understands natural language text and speech to identify intents, extract pertinent information, respond to queries, and search large datasets. Founded in 2016 by Madhu Mathihalli, Ravi Raj and Mitul Tiwari, the company is based in Mountain View, CA. Passage AI targets retail, telecommunications, automotive and education industries to automate routine tasks and provide instantaneous responses to common questions. The company raised $7.3M in a Series A led by Blumberg Capital, bringing total funding to $10.3M. Bruce Taragin of Blumberg Capital will join Passage AI’s board as part of the investment. Passage plans to use the proceeds to expand into additional industries and international markets. Passage.AI builds AI-enabled conversational interfaces that let businesses automate and improve customer interactions across messaging and voice platforms. Its chatbot responds to customer messages by querying content using an NLP platform. The technology is available for platforms including Facebook Messenger, Slack, SMS, Amazon Alexa and Google Home. Passage.AI's solutions are deployed by enterprises such as Kohl’s and educational organizations including Udacity. The company was founded in 2016 by WalmartLabs alumni Madhu Mathihalli and Ravi Raj, and LinkedIn alumnus Mitul Tiwari. Passage.AI raised $3M in funding, providing capital to support its product and deployments.

Total raised
$10M
Funding rounds
2
Latest round
Series A
Latest activity
May 2018

Industries

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Machine Learning
  • Software
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Recent funding

  1. Series A

    May 2018

    $7M

  2. Seed

    Sep 2017

    $3M

Team