Intel Capital Leads $11.5M in Series A Funding for Hypersonix, an AI-Driven Autonomous Analytics Platform™ Founded by Former Executives from SAP, PayPal, IBM
Hypersonix has received $11.5M in Series A funding led by Intel Capital with participation from existing investors. Hypersonix was founded by successful serial entrepreneur and former SAP executive Prem Kiran, and is led by an impressive co-founding team, including Rama Rao, former MIT research faculty member for advanced analytics, as well as former PayPal and Intuit data executive, and Todd Michaud, a former IBM executive and former president at Retalix. Hypersonix is an autonomous analytics and decisioning platform that is transforming consumer commerce data with artificial intelligence and automation. Amazon Lab126 is among its early customers.
The funding comes at a time when IDC predicts worldwide revenues for big data and business analytics (BDA) solutions to reach $274.3B by 2022. It also arrives on the heels of Gartner’s finding that, by 2021, “NLP and conversational analytics will boost analytics and BI adoption from 35% of employees to over 50%, including new classes of users, particularly front-office workers.”
Competing in Uncertain Times
“Every wave of IT innovation creates a new set of opportunities,” said Mark Rostick, vice president and senior managing director at Intel Capital. “Hypersonix provides enterprises with industry-specific AI capabilities targeted towards decision makers and business leaders, who demand accelerated time to value. Hypersonix offers an easy to use self-serve platform that interprets and provides insights at a level that allows business leaders to focus on their core business and not overload their IT.” Vijay Reddy, investment director, at Intel Capital who focuses on investments in AI and Infrastructure, will be joining the Hypersonix board of directors.
“Companies of all sizes are looking for guidance amidst unprecedented challenges,” said Prem Kiran, Founder & CEO, Hypersonix. “We are here to empower everyone within the enterprise with a self-service analytics solution that offers recommendations in the moment, leveraging existing data sources alongside purpose-built engines that understand pricing, churn, consumer behavior patterns, along with external data like weather and local events, to meet the particular needs of consumer commerce.”
Kiran continued, “Timeliness, and time-to-value, have become more important than ever, as companies navigate a post-COVID-19 marketplace, where the value of historical data has become a distant second to the real-time connection between customers and their needs.”
Intelligent Analytics for Consumer Commerce
Hypersonix offers the most comprehensive cloud-based, AI-powered autonomous analytics platform that enables consumer commerce decision-makers to make smart decisions fast—empowering them to get real-time intelligence, insights and recommendations to take timely actions leading to business success.
Hypersonix’s predictive and prescriptive analytics can measure and monitor business results, clarify why results are occurring, and recommend actions to drive improvements. Leveraging innovations in Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Programming (NLP) and real-time data computing, the platform offers a simple, fast “Google-like” experience supported by “Jarvix,” a virtual assistant. Designed for Retail, Restaurant, Hospitality, e-Commerce, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) and Brand Manufacturers. Hypersonix helps clients drive profitable growth, save money and improve customer engagement.
Amazon Is Among Early Customers
“At Amazon Lab126, we want our business leads to have real-time access to insights for data-driven decision-making. We chose Hypersonix after evaluating several vendors in the AI analysis space. They seem to be approaching automated insights in a very intelligent way, and we were impressed by their natural language UX, among other things. Hypersonix looks like a natural fit to help us meet our goals.” – Eric, Head of Analytics & Data, Supply Chain, Amazon
“Hypersonix’s Artificial Intelligence capabilities deliver immediate valued to our business. We leverage Hypersonix’s AI automation platform across various areas, from identifying key sales drivers to help optimize operations and profitability. Hypersonix is our backbone intelligence system and a must-have to run our business effectively. What we like most about the Hyperxsonix AI solution is that it’s very actionable, and boils down the ocean of data into very tangle sales and profit drivers.” – Pushpak, CEO, Mitra QSA, one of the largest operators of KFC & Taco Bell in the US
Time-to-Value
Hypersonix has raised $15M+ in funding to date and intends to use the capital for the rapid expansion and deployment of its Autonomous AI Analytics platform within consumer commerce industries, including retail, restaurant, hospitality, e-commerce, consumer-packaged goods (CPG) and manufacturing. The company has already demonstrated YoY growth of over 400%, with a rapidly growing portfolio of leading brands. Whereas competing solutions often take months to deploy, Hypersonix is delivering real-time insights between four and six weeks.
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