Rasa
AI platform for virtual assistants
- 101-200 employees
- B2B
- Enterprise
- Lead generation
- Communication
- Customer service
- SaaS
- API
- SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Company mission
To empower the world’s largest brands to interpret people’s needs with open and extensible conversational AI.
26% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
Rasa is a platform for AI-led personalized conversations. There’s no shortage of competition in this market, with the likes of Google’s Dialogflow and Microsoft’s LUIS, but Rasa has taken a different approach. It moves away from the standard ’this question receives this response’ hard-coded chat bots to a system that uses AI technologies to understand what the customer is saying in context.
Rasa's open source platform has grown a large community which has helped with integrating the system into a wide range of messaging platforms, and in creating extensions to the functionality of the system. This in turn has increased its use and popularity.
While Rasa is coming under increasing pressure from a swarm of chatbot providers powered by ChatGPT and other generative AIs, Rasa has integrated large language models into its own platform. This, combined with recent funding and recognition as a leader in generative conversational AI, puts the company in a very good position going forward.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Opportunities for growth: We encourage you to grow, learn, and push yourself. Employees are empowered to take ownership of their work and receive a yearly budget for professional development
- Team offsite: We get together twice a year in an exciting location in Europe to plan and set goals as a company. As a distributed company, this is also our chance to have fun and get to know each other face-to-face
- Flexible work schedules: Flexible schedules, remote opportunities, and the ability to work from home allow teams to balance work with daily life. We truly unplug during time off and require employees to take a minimum of 2 consecutive weeks of paid time off per year
- Stock Options: We believe in our mission and winning together. We invest in employees' futures and make sure everyone has a stake in the company
Company values
- We Act as One Team: Everything is interconnected: we win together. Our team works as one, and every team member is crucial to our success
- We Are Empowered to Take Action: Our team members are experts in thoughtful action and taking ownership. We get to the heart of every challenge, test new solutions, finish what we've started, and support each other to multiply our efforts
- We Embrace Integrity & Diversity: Our team is inclusive and diverse. We admit to our mistakes, and with honesty and integrity, create a space that addresses challenges with empathy
- We Enable Our Customers to Delight Theirs: Our team's hard work allows our customers to create impressive conversational AI experiences that empower millions worldwide
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2024
$30m
SERIES C
Jun 2020
$26m
SERIES B
Total funding: $70.1m
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Leadership
Alan Nichol
(Co-Founder & CTO)Alan holds a PhD in Computer Simulation and Machine Learning from the University of Cambridge.
Alex Weidauer
(Co-Founder & CSO)Alex comes from a computer science background and holds a Masters degree in Management and Strategy from LSE.
Melissa Gordon
(CEO)Initially joined Rasa as CRO in 2021 before becoming CEO in 2022. Previously an SVP & GM at Tradeshift and a VP of Worldwide Sales, Customer Success, and Services at SingleStore.