Netomi

{{Short description|American Artificial Intelligence Company}}

{{Infobox dot-com company

| name = Netomi

| logo = Netomi logo.png

| type = Private company

| founded = {{start date and age|df=y|2015|5}}

| location = San Francisco, California

| founder = Puneet Mehta

| key_people = Puneet Mehta (CEO)

| num_employees = 131

| industry = Artificial Intelligence

| website = [https://www.netomi.com/ netomi.com]

}}

Netomi, formerly msg.ai, is an American artificial intelligence company and developer of chatbot technologies.

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History

msg.ai was founded in may 2015 by Puneet Mehta.

msg.ai worked with Sony Pictures to launch a chat bot on Facebook Messenger for a $100M film, Goosebumps{{cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/startup-msgai-wants-to-make-bots-big-2016-3|title= msg.ai wants to make bots big |website= Business Insider |date= |accessdate=2017-10-13}} and subsequently joined Y Combinator as a member of the Winter 2016 class.{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/23/y-combinator-winter-2016/|title= TechCrunch Y Combinator Winter 2016|date= 24 March 2016|accessdate=2017-10-13}}

Later that year and in 2017, msg.ai completed two rounds of seed funding, led by Y Combinator and Index Ventures.

In 2018, the company changed its name to Netomi. In 2019, the company raised $14.7 million in a Series A funding round also led by Index Ventures.

In 2021, the company raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by WndrCo LLC.{{cite web |last1=Traeger |first1=Jennifer |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2021-11-18/netomi-raises-30-million-series-b-to-address-the-post-pandemic-labor-crisis-with-its-customer-experience-ai |title=Netomi Raises $30 Million Series B to Address the Post-pandemic Labor Crisis With Its Customer Experience AI |website=Bloomberg |access-date=18 November 2021}}

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