After a $7 million Series A round, Respond.io wants to dominate social commerce.
A social to conversational commerce company has secured $7 million in Series A funding.
Since the company's previous fundraising round, income has multiplied 25 times.
The company is primarily focusing on its interactions with the major telecom providers in the country.
Respond.io, a platform for social to conversational commerce, has raised $7 million in Series A financing with participation from Altair Capital, Smart Partnership Capital, Sterling Oak Group, and Calendula Ventures. The round was won by Headline.
As the UAE's e-commerce industry continues to experience amazing growth, Respond.io has boosted its strategy and investment in the country in an effort to take the lead in the newly growing social commerce sector.
One of the company's top revenue producers, Respond.io has seen a remarkable 236 percent revenue growth in the UAE over the past year.
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"The UAE has one of the highest rates of social media users globally, which is fostering a new wave of innovation in digital commerce. According to Respond.io CEO Gerardo Salandra, platforms like Instagram have made it possible for marketers to communicate directly with customers and speed up their purchasing decisions.
"So far, marketers have had difficulty integrating the crucial "final mile" of the purchasing process—messaging services like WhatsApp—into their social media strategies. Respond.io has addressed this issue by providing an enterprise-grade messaging platform with robust features like comprehensive analytics, automation, and marketing tools that have been created from the ground up for messaging.
With a million conversations every day across hundreds of teams, this enables multinational firms to implement highly inventive tactics, according to him.
Since its last round of investment, Respond.io's income has expanded by a factor of 25. With the extra funding, the company plans to enhance the scope of its integration capabilities and further its penetration of major corporations. While harnessing the influx of capital to expand its ecosystem of channel partners, the company is primarily focused on connecting with the nation's major telecom operators to make its products widely accessible through these service providers' cloud marketplaces.
We are especially interested in strengthening our partnership with Etisalat because doing so will accelerate our growth strategy and make our value proposition more quickly and easily accessible to a wide range of UAE enterprises, according to Salandra.
According to Respond.io CTO Hassan Ahmed, "We've built an extraordinary infrastructure to support these enormous customers - we process over 140 million messages every month."
This is an industry-leading statistic, for example, it's at least 10x more messages than our major European competitors, he continued. "These measurements are seldom ever made public, but from what I've found, this is an industry-leading figure.
Headline Partner Akio Tanaka remarks, "I haven't seen a company with this kind of development trajectory in quite some time."
"What's most impressive is that everything we've accomplished thus far has been done through organic marketing combined with a product-led growth approach. I can't wait to see what happens next," Tanaka said.
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