VOIQ
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
VOIQ was a San Francisco-based, Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2015 by Ricardo Garcia-Amaya and Jessica Taggart. It offered human-sounding, customizable conversational AI voice assistants for sales, marketing and customer-service calls, delivered as a SaaS platform. The company claimed more than 700 business customers after launching the platform in February 2019 and raised $5 million in total funding.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Ricardo Garcia-Amaya and Jessica Taggart found VOIQ in San Francisco to build conversational AI voice assistants for business calls.
- SaaS launch and $5M funding
VOIQ launches its SaaS voice platform with more than 700 companies as customers, and closes a $2 million round led by LEAP Global Ventures, bringing total funding to $5 million.
- COVID response
VOIQ offers its VoiceBot call platform free to government, health and senior-care organizations to help with pandemic outreach.
- Fundraising voice assistant
VOIQ deploys its own Fundraising Voice Assistant to pitch investors, calling itself the first tech company to raise a round through an AI voice assistant; public updates cease thereafter.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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