Cardiff-based artificial intelligence start-up We Build Bots has been named as one of Tech Nation鈥檚 rising stars.
It comes after it was revealed as among 10 winners of Tech Nation鈥檚 early stage tech scale-up competition.
We Build Bot鈥檚 AI IntelAgent platform can help automate millions of low value, repetitive calls and emails that public sector organisations across the 海角视频 spend huge amounts of resources to deal with each year.
It was set up in 2016 by its chief executive Paul Shepherd.
Its marketing and sales executive Georgia Darzins said: 鈥淲e鈥檙e thrilled to be one of the companies to represent digital innovation in Wales, a beautiful country that deserves a bigger place on the global stage. So far, we have made great strides in public sector digital transformation, and we鈥檙e headed into 2020 determined to leverage AI to transform the way in which public services are delivered.鈥
The Rising Stars competition from Tech Nation, a network for ambitious tech entrepreneurs, is the only early-stage tech scale-up competition in the 海角视频, and is designed to showcase the most exciting companies at seed to pre-series A funding.
The final 10 winners were revealed at the Rising Stars Grand Final in London.
Also competing from Wales were tech starts-up in Newport-based Moneyshake and Resooma based in Cardiff.
The winners were required to pitch to a panel of industry leading judges, and in front of an audience of over 200 of the top venture capitalists, founders and corporates in the 海角视频.
In its second year, the competition received almost 400 applications in total; a 39% rise from 2018 and attracted a diverse group of founders.
Digital Minister Matt Warman said: 鈥淚t鈥檚 great to see such a diverse group of entrepreneurs from all over the 海角视频 involved in this competition and I鈥檓 excited to find out what鈥檚 next for these world-leading tech firms of tomorrow.鈥
鈥淭his government is committed to making sure the 海角视频 is the best place in the world to start and grow a digital business.
鈥淲e鈥檝e worked hard to develop a business friendly environment, a reputation for innovation and the ability to attract the best talent from across the globe.鈥
Mike Jackson, entrepreneur success director, Tech Nation, said: 鈥淭he Rising Stars are great examples of the strength of the 海角视频 tech ecosystem.
鈥淭he winners highlight that innovation, determination and ambition in this fast growing sector can be found right across the 海角视频.鈥
Other rising stars
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ClearGlass, London
ClearGlass is a digital intermediary between asset managers and pension funds which aims to help them make investment decisions.
Codices Interactive, Truro
Codices Interactive provides viewers with a live, interactive video platform, enabling any broadcaster to create interactive shows.
CoGrammar, London
CoGrammar operates a coding education provider in Africa called HyperionDev through which it sources, selects, trains and integrates full-time code reviewers from Africa.
Foundries.io, Cambridge
FoundriesFactory is a self-service cloud product that provides services to develop, secure, deploy and maintain embedded Internet of Things and Edge compute products.
Neatebox, Edinburgh
Neatebox's platform aims to tackle loneliness and communication and promote empathetic relationships between consumers and customer service teams.
Shopper.com, Birmingham
A community-driven global marketplace for online and offline voucher codes, covering thousands of e-commerce sites.
Sparkbox, Southampton
Working in the retail and fashion sector, Sparkbox uses machine learning to reduce stock, improve profitability and prevent over-discounting by optimising prices.
Talking Medicines, Glasgow
Talking Medicines captures the digital 鈥榲oice' of a patient and aggregates it into patterns of behaviours, commercialising it to brand managers in pharmaceutical companies through subscription access.
Tootoot, Manchester
Tootoot is a software that supports the psychological safety and wellbeing of individuals within education, sport and the workplace.
