Early stage venture-capital (VC) Blume Ventures has recently launched its own chatbot developed by ANA, an open-source chatbot framework.
Blume Ventures is one of India’s leading tech-focused early stage VCs. It has funded few of the most popular start-ups like Ola, Printo, Instamojo, Zopper, and many more.
It has also has invested in series A and B rounds of funding of NowFloats.
It now has its own chatbot deployed on its website with its customized template created by ANA, which is a product of NowFloats.
The chatbot helped Blume Ventures to automate most of their website functions like:
- Submit your business plan: The chatbot collects complete information on your company like its founding members, stage of funding required, your revenue stream and more.
- Meet the Blumiers: All you’d want to know about the investments made by Blume Ventures is provided by the chatbot
- About Us: The chatbot gives you information about the team and their philosophy
- Careers: You can apply for your desired job role through the chatbot
Chatbots are not the future. They are here, now.
According to a report by Business Insider, 80% of the businesses plan to have chatbots implemented by 2020. Chatbots assist businesses by providing real time support to customers on any aspect of its business. For example:
- A shopping chatbot can send your customers product recommendations and help them shop on the go
- Automobile chatbots can help you with driving sales, schedule test-drives and provide road assistance to the customers
- Real-estate chatbot agents can help customers with applications, schedule home tours and more
ANA, the open-source chatbot framework helps you create and deploy your chatbots in less than 30 minutes.
It has a
- Conversation Studio: It helps you create your chat flow and has options to add or edit buttons and all kinds of input fields required to create a conversation
- Simulator: Mostly used to preview your chatflow. It has features like Memory Display, Agent Chat, Analytics and Chat Export
- SDK: ios and Android SDK which helps you integrate the chatbot with your apps.
To know more about the various ways chatbots can help your business and the applications of chatbots across different industries or to create your own chatbot visit ana.chat.
