AI Innovator Re:infer Raises $7.6m for Enterprise Communications NLP Platform

Investment led by Crane Venture Partners, IPGroup and Seedcamp will help Re:infer grow its team and accelerate innovation in Conversational Data Intelligence.

Re:infer, the AI start-up helping organisations understand and action every business conversation, has raised $7.6m from venture capital firms Crane Venture Partners, IP Group and Seedcamp, and from independent investors Jason Kingdon, Martin Moran and Dai Yamane.

Founded in 2015 from the same UCL lab that produced DeepMind, Re:infer unlocks the power of conversational data for enterprises and their people. Business runs on communications – whether it’s talking to customers or collaborating with colleagues.

Yet the scale of digital communications has grown so much that employees now spend much of their time on calls, emails and chats. It’s keeping them from more important work that creates value for customers and the business.

To resolve this, Re:infer has created a zero-code Conversational Data Intelligence platform that transforms messages into actionable data at speed and scale. It gives any employee – regardless of technical ability – access to powerful machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) tools they can use to better understand their customers through Communications Mining and automate their least favourite work.

“At the heart of Re:infer is a powerful idea, and it’s been a pleasure helping the team bring it to fruition”, said Scott Sage, Co-founder and Partner at Crane Venture Partners. “Business conversations are important – they’re how work gets done. But in our digital economy there are too many messages for humans to process alone. By marrying human intelligence with machine efficiency, Re:infer is filling that critical gap. We’re very excited to help it achieve its full potential.”

The investment will enable the London-based start-up to extend the capabilities of the Re:infer platform. It will also grow its team of AI specialists, developers, customer success, sales and marketing experts.

Jon Edington, Partner and Head of Software Investment at IP Group, also commented:

“The journey from the research lab to the open market is no small task. But the team at Re:infer has confidently shown that it can be done. It’s been very rewarding helping the company grow from a young start-up into a dynamic AI innovator with a strong portfolio of top-tier customers and an extensive partner network.”

Re:infer’s funding results reflect a wider trend of growing adoption and investment in NLP and conversational AI. Recent analysis from SSON also shows that 67% of business services leaders are already investing in NLP to extract data from emails.

Ed Challis, Re:infer Co-founder and CEO, explains: “Businesses today often struggle to know what their customers want. But how can this be when customers are constantly – and loudly – telling them just that? It’s a problem of scale and manpower – there are too many messages and too few people to process them all. Precious insight is getting lost in the digital noise.

“Fortunately, business leaders are starting to wake up to the potential of NLP. They’re looking beyond simple chatbots and considering how Conversational Data Intelligence can help them understand and action every message that passes through their business. The companies that can harness this power right now stand to gain a major service advantage over the competition.”

Re:infer’s Conversational Data Intelligence platform is used in many of the world’s largest banking, insurance and e-commerce organisations for scaling their services, enhancing customer experience and driving process improvement. In the last year alone, the company has taken on multiple new top-tier banking and insurance clients, and has also been recognised as a Cool Vendor in Gartner’s 2021 Cool Vendors in Conversational and Natural Language Technology report.

About Re:infer

Re:infer is the Conversational Data Intelligence platform for the enterprise. Businesses use Re:infer to mine, monitor and automate their service conversations. Through their no-code NLP platform, we democratise the power of AI for every employee. Re:infer increases scalability, enhances the customer experience, and improves governance and control. 

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