Dashbot

01 / WHAT IT BUILT

What the company did

Dashbot was a San Francisco-based conversational analytics platform founded in 2016 by Arte Merritt (previously founder of mobile analytics startup Motally, acquired by Nokia), Jesse Hull and Dennis Yang. Billing itself as 'Google Analytics for bots,' it gave developers of chatbots and voice apps on Facebook Messenger, Slack, Kik, Alexa and Google Assistant bot-specific metrics - sentiment analysis, conversational funnels, NLP response effectiveness - plus tools to act on the data, such as live human takeover of chat sessions and re-engagement push notifications. By early 2018 it had analyzed over 22 billion conversational messages.

03 / EVENT HISTORY

Events in the structured record

1. 2016
   Founded and launched

   Dashbot launched at VentureBeat's MobileBeat conference as a bot analytics platform, quickly signing 130 customers and processing hundreds of millions of messages.

2. 2016
   Seed round

   Dashbot raised a $2 million seed round led by ff Venture Capital, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Samsung Accelerator, Scrum Ventures and others.

3. 2016
   Google partnership

   Dashbot partnered with Google to provide the analytics backend for developers building conversational actions on Google Assistant.

4. 2026
   Status unclear

   No public shutdown announcement, bankruptcy filing or acquisition was found; a third-party developer profile describes Dashbot as now operating as Dimension Labs, which could not be verified with an independent source.