Kris Gopalakrishnan, Co-Founder, Infosys has invested in Chennai-based speech recognition solutions company Uniphore in its Series A funding round. This round will add fuel to Uniphore’s worldwide expansion and product technology improvement. The company’s solutions provide speech solutions to improve human-machine interaction and enable any software to recognize and respond to real human speech.
“Continuing on my theme of backing inclusive innovations, I am optimistic of the success of Uniphore. Man-Machine communication is one of the more complex problems to solve. Uniphore’s vision lends possibility of finding a solution to this very difficult problem and the company has already made substantial progress.” said Kris Gopalakrishnan, Infosys Co-Founder and investor in Uniphore.
According to Umesh Sachdev, co-founder and CEO, Uniphore Software Systems, Kris’s involvement in the company will give a huge amount of confidence and provide Uniphore to direct itself in the right direction towards building a bigger and better infrastructure. Umesh also said that the Series A funds will attract a great amount of talent the high-tech industry has to offer.
Uniphore offers revolutionary services like voice biometrics, virtual assistant and speech analytics that are creating a new benchmark in engaging their customers. Their solutions have been well-received by numerous industries that include banking, insurance, BPOs, agriculture, lending/MFI, healthcare and government. Launched in 2008, Uniphore was listed as one of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 companies in India last year.
