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Percept.AI (YC S17) — AI support agent for your business that actually works

Artificial intelligence for modernized customer support. We provide end-to-end AI-powered solutions for business to connect with and support their customers.

Percept.AI is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2017 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: AI support agent for your business that actually works. The founders listed are Joe (Zhou) Sha (Founder/CEO), Deyang (Derek) Zhao (Founder/CTO), Shuo Han (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, May 3, 2017).

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Percept.AI

New accelerator entry · 2017-05-03 · the record

Summer 2017
batch
7
people
Early
stage
United States of America
region
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BatchSummer 2017
Announced2017-05-03
StageEarly
StatusAcquired
Team size7
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Operations
SectorsArtificial Intelligence, SaaS, Customer Service
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttps://www.percept.ai/
Previously known asBuddy AI Inc., Buddy AI

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Artificial intelligence for modernized customer support. We provide end-to-end AI-powered solutions for business to connect with and support their customers. By leveraging the state of art deep learning and natural language processing technology, we make the customer support teams more intelligent and efficient.

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