Whisbi
Carrer de Calàbria, 169, 10th floor, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Overview
Whisbi is a Barcelona-based conversational sales platform led by CEO Alex Bisbe. It offers a platform to capture, qualify and convert leads and to boost assisted and unassisted sales through industry-specific insights, workflow customization and AI-powered services. The company works with global enterprises across telecommunications, automotive, travel, insurance and banking. Clients named in the article include Vodafone, Sky, Toyota, VW Group and Hyundai. Whisbi raised €5M in funding in a round led by Cipio Partners alongside existing investors Active and BDMI. The company intends to use the funds to continue expanding operations and its business reach. Whisbi Technologies, founded in 2008 by Alex Bisbe and José Luis Cantero, develops a platform to digitize companies' sales processes. Its product connects telesales, digital marketing and physical retail to modernize customer acquisition and conversion workflows. The company is headquartered in Barcelona (R&D), with a commercial office in Madrid and subsidiaries in Brazil and the U.S. The business appears focused on enterprise sales digitalization across multiple geographies. Financially, Whisbi closed a €5M financing in the reported round and has raised €11.5M in total to date. The company has drawn continued investor interest, with Active Venture Partners having first invested in early 2012. Whisbi Technologies is a Catalan martech company that digitises sales processes by providing a conversational commerce solution. Its product enables companies to engage with customers through video and chat, and to host webinars and live events. The startup counts major brands among its users, including Toyota, Nissan, Ford, GM, Vodafone, and Media Markt. Founded in 2008, Whisbi has its headquarters and R&D center in Barcelona, a commercial office in Madrid, and subsidiaries in Brazil and the United States. The company has raised a €1 million investment from the Capital Expansion Fund of the Catalan Institute of Finance (ICF) via a convertible participatory loan. The financing is intended to boost internationalisation and growth, especially in the North American market where it expects to grow significantly in the coming months. Whisbi Technologies is a Spanish online communication startup that offers personalized, real-time customer service through video calls. Its platform connects a trained commercial agent with customers during the entire contracting process using an integrated system of voice, video and chat, requiring only a computer and a fixed or mobile phone. The company was founded by Alex Bisbe (CEO) and Jose Luis Cantero (CTO) and has offices in Madrid and Barcelona. With the new resources the startup will boost its international expansion across Europe and beyond. Whisbi opened offices in London and Sao Paulo in July. BDMI (Bertelsmann's digital investment fund) and Amerigo Innvierte Spain Ventures, managed by Active Venture Partners, invested $2.5 million in the company.
- Total raised
- $15M
- Funding rounds
- 5
- Latest round
- Equity
- Latest activity
- Oct 2019
Industries
- Customer Service
- E-Commerce
- E-Commerce Platforms
- SaaS
- Software
Recent funding
Equity
Oct 2019
$6M
Equity
Dec 2018
$6M
Convertible Note
Jul 2017
$1M
Equity
Sep 2012
$3M