Hong Kong-based customer engagement platform WATI<\/a> (WhatsApp Team Inbox<\/a>) raised $23 million in series B funding led by Tiger Global<\/a>. The round also saw participation from existing investor Sequoia Capital, while DST Global Partners and Shopify came in as new investors. Shopify too invested in the Southeast Asia startup, making it the first in the region.

The series B round follows an $8.3 million series A round the company had 10 months ago. WATI said it has raised $35 million since 2020. The company has clients such as Indonesia’s Gojek, Singapore’s, Indian startup Dukaan, along with Bytedance’s Tiktok, and Oppo.

WATI, in a statement, said the startup has the most number of employees across departments in India. \"The company plans to increase the India headcount by 30% in line with the growth of its revenues globally,\" it said.

WATI was founded in 2020 by Bianca Ho and Ken Yeung. The company allows businesses to send personalised messages to their customers and helps them use
WhatsApp Business<\/a> as a marketing tool.

\"It’s been an exciting 2022 at WATI culminating with this new funding round. We doubled down on our product with more automations, making it a seamless digital tool and a must-have for any business. We went vertical in our approach and created integrations and partnerships with Zoho, Shopify, and Google Sheets among others to really help scale growth and sharpen the product,\" said Bianca Ho, co-founder WATI.

The company has been operating in 78 countries and has its largest individual market in India.

“About 40% of Meta’s advertisers globally - over 4 million businesses - use click-to-message ads, which redirect people from Facebook or Instagram into one of Meta’s messaging products to chat with a business. WATI is well placed to service this demand and beyond”, said Ken Yeung, co-founder, WATI.

The company said it will continually scale the team and invest in the product stack for low-code automation encouraging wider adoption of digital tools, with the additional funding.
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WhatsApp chatbot启动WATI提出了2300万美元的资金由老虎全球

WhatsApp团队的收件箱或者WATI表示,它计划增加印度员工30%的收入增长。

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香港客户互动平台WATI(WhatsApp团队的收件箱领导的B系列)筹集了2300万美元资金老虎环球。圆也看到从现有投资者参与红杉资本,而DST全球合作伙伴和Shopify是新投资者。Shopify太在东南亚投资创业,成为第一个在该地区。

系列B轮之前一个830万美元的公司有10个月前。WATI表示,自2020年以来已经筹集了3500万美元。公司客户如印尼Gojek,新加坡,印度启动Dukaan Bytedance Tiktok,和朋友。

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WATI,在一份声明中说,公司已在印度最跨部门的员工数量。“该公司计划增加30%的印度员工符合全球增长的收入,”它说。

WATI成立于2020年,比安卡Ho和肯·杨。该公司允许企业个性化的消息发送给他们的客户,帮助他们使用WhatsApp业务作为一个营销工具。

“这是一个激动人心的2022年WATI最终这个新的一轮融资。我们对我们的产品有更多的自动化翻了一倍,使其成为无缝的数字工具,任何业务的必备。我们在方法和创建了垂直集成与Zoho和伙伴关系,Shopify,和谷歌床单等真正帮助规模增长和提高产品,“比安卡Ho说,WATI创始人之一。

该公司已经在78个国家和其在印度最大的个人市场。

“元约40%的全球广告-超过400万个企业使用click-to-message广告,将人们从Facebook或Instagram重定向到一元的消息传递产品与业务聊天。WATI准备好服务需求和超越“WATI Ken Yeung说,联合创始人。

该公司说,它将持续规模的团队和投资产品low-code自动化鼓励更广泛的采用数字工具,有额外的资金。

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Hong Kong-based customer engagement platform WATI<\/a> (WhatsApp Team Inbox<\/a>) raised $23 million in series B funding led by Tiger Global<\/a>. The round also saw participation from existing investor Sequoia Capital, while DST Global Partners and Shopify came in as new investors. Shopify too invested in the Southeast Asia startup, making it the first in the region.

The series B round follows an $8.3 million series A round the company had 10 months ago. WATI said it has raised $35 million since 2020. The company has clients such as Indonesia’s Gojek, Singapore’s, Indian startup Dukaan, along with Bytedance’s Tiktok, and Oppo.

WATI, in a statement, said the startup has the most number of employees across departments in India. \"The company plans to increase the India headcount by 30% in line with the growth of its revenues globally,\" it said.

WATI was founded in 2020 by Bianca Ho and Ken Yeung. The company allows businesses to send personalised messages to their customers and helps them use
WhatsApp Business<\/a> as a marketing tool.

\"It’s been an exciting 2022 at WATI culminating with this new funding round. We doubled down on our product with more automations, making it a seamless digital tool and a must-have for any business. We went vertical in our approach and created integrations and partnerships with Zoho, Shopify, and Google Sheets among others to really help scale growth and sharpen the product,\" said Bianca Ho, co-founder WATI.

The company has been operating in 78 countries and has its largest individual market in India.

“About 40% of Meta’s advertisers globally - over 4 million businesses - use click-to-message ads, which redirect people from Facebook or Instagram into one of Meta’s messaging products to chat with a business. WATI is well placed to service this demand and beyond”, said Ken Yeung, co-founder, WATI.

The company said it will continually scale the team and invest in the product stack for low-code automation encouraging wider adoption of digital tools, with the additional funding.
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