init.ai

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Simplest way to build intelligent conversational apps

New York, United States · Founded 2016

Headquarters
New York, New York
Founded
2016
Business Model
B2B
Website
init.ai
Last Round
SeedFeb 2016
Rounds
1

Indexed holds 1 funding round and 3 investors for this company. The full record is or through the API.

About

Init.ai was a New York-based developer platform that let companies build, train, and deploy intelligent conversational apps and AI-powered chatbots, handling messaging, machine learning, and business logic with integrations into third-party APIs. Founded in 2015, the company was acquired by Apple in October 2017 in an acqui-hire, after which its team joined Apple's Siri group and the service was discontinued in December 2017.

Summary

init.ai is an Artificial Intelligence company based in New York, United States, founded in 2016. Its most recent funding was a Seed round in Feb 2016. Investors include Boldstart Ventures, Esther Dyson and Techstars.

Funding History

SeedSeed RoundFeb 2016

Investors

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