Participated · Equity · Jun 2017

Julie Desk is a French startup that builds an AI-driven virtual assistant to automate scheduling of meetings and appointments. Users CC "Julie" in email threads and the assistant proposes times pulled from supported calendars, confirms agreed times, adds events to schedules, and sends invites. The technology also ties into restaurant bookings and the company plans further integrations, including Skype for Business support to create call URLs and potential future travel-booking automation. Julie Desk operates a hybrid model where human supervisors review and correct final appointments to ensure quality and to further train its machine learning models. Julien Hobeika is the co-founder and CEO. The company has secured €2.5M in new funding to further develop the technology. Julie Desk is a French startup offering an email-based virtual assistant that automates scheduling meetings and appointments. Launched in early 2015 by the team behind WePopp, the service operates via the CC: field in users' email threads and pulls times from supported online calendars. It uses an AI-driven system that is supplemented by human operators who quality-check AI-generated emails and take over when the AI cannot produce an answer. The assistant proposes potential meeting times, confirms agreed details, adds events to calendars, and sends calendar invites — all via natural, human-friendly email language. Julie Desk has picked up a further €600,000 in funding from SIDE Capital. SIDE managing partner Renaud Guillerm joins Julie Desk's board; SIDE counts entrepreneurs Frederic Mazzella, Thierry Petit and Olivier Mathiot among its board members.