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Directly

Directly is a San Francisco-based developer of artificial intelligence systems of customer experience and chatbots founded by Antony Brydon, Jean Tessier and Jeff Patterson.

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directly.com
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Company
Company
Organization
Organization

Company attributes

Industry
Automation
Automation
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Customer relationship management (CRM)
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Application programming interface (API)
Application programming interface (API)
Social messaging
Social messaging
Technology
Technology
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Gig economy
9
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Location
San Francisco
San Francisco
B2X
B2B
B2B
CEO
Mike de la Cruz
Mike de la Cruz
Founder
Jeff Patterson (entrepreneur)
Jeff Patterson (entrepreneur)
Jean Tessier
Jean Tessier
Antony Brydon
Antony Brydon
AngelList URL
angel.co/directly
Legal Name
Directly, Inc.
Number of Employees (Ranges)
51 – 20010
Email Address
amelia@directly.com
joey@directly.com
sales@directly.com
Phone Number
+18007873176
Full Address
333 Bryant Street Suite 250 San Francisco, CA 94107
Investors
Silicon Valley Bank
Silicon Valley Bank
Gene Hoffman
Gene Hoffman
Jeff Bonforte
Jeff Bonforte
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Gary Clayton
Kevin Moore
Kevin Moore
Ray Lane (entrepreneur)
Ray Lane (entrepreneur)
Tuesday Capital
Tuesday Capital
Varsha Rao
Varsha Rao
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Founded Date
2011
Total Funding Amount (USD)
97,800,000
Latest Funding Round Date
May 20, 2020
Competitors
Guru (software company)
Guru (software company)
Agile CRM
Agile CRM
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SolarWinds
SolarWinds
Qualtrics
Qualtrics
Genesys (company)
Genesys (company)
Zoho Corporation
Zoho Corporation
ServiceNow
ServiceNow
...
Business Model
Subscription
Latest Funding Type
Series B
Series B
Patents Assigned (Count)
8
Motto/Tagline
Resilient Customer Support.
Wellfound ID
directly

Other attributes

Blog
resources.directly.com
Company Operating Status
Active
Latest Funding Round Amount (USD)
31,000,000

Directly is a provider of resilience to companies by delivering more automated and elastic customer support operations. Founded in 2011 by Antony Brydon, Jean Tessier, and Jeff Patterson and based in San Francisco, Directly offers AI-powered solutions to help customer support resolve customer issues with a mix of automation and human support. Their platform integrates into the contact center to understand customer issues, automate common solutions, and engage community experts. Companies like Airbnb, Microsoft, and Samsung use the Directly platform to improve the customer experience, boosting CSAT by 20%, while saving millions per year.

Platform

Directly's platform offers users analysis of customer conversations with detailed recommendations on what should be automated or sent to someone for assistance. They offer API's to deliver an automated solution, including customer question answers or automated actions. They work to recruit brand advocates with deep knowledge of products to resolve issues at a fraction of the cost of a contact center. And Directly's platform offers active reports visualizing a living cluster map of a users contact center to see where the automation is performing.

The platform offers enterprise security and privacy, including SOC-2, Type II certified and GDPR compliant, and EU-US Privacy Shield certified by the Department of Commerce.

Integrations

Directly offers integration into a users existing software or technology stack, helpdesk, or CRM. Their API's integrate with existing virtual agents, mobile applications, chats, messaging, CRM or Business Intelligence system.

Their integration will review customer interactions and work to improve automation outcomes; review messaging platforms and work to improve the success and coverage of these channels; work in leading CRM platforms to record support interactions and engage agents when needed.

Industries
Technical Support

Directly will deploy an intellectual virtual agent to resolve questions related to troubleshooting, product releases, bugs, and account and billing questions.

Telecom

Directly works to automatically resolve common Telecom carrier support issues, including account billing issues to troubleshooting devices.

Gaming

Directly can be integrated into a gaming support system to help resolve support questions related to gameplay, new releases, outages, bugs, account issues, and connected consoles.

Timeline

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Funding Rounds

Products

Acquisitions

SBIR/STTR Awards

Patents

Further Resources

Title
Author
Link
Type
Date

Directly Software buys conversational AI startup Kylie.ai

Mike Wheatley

https://siliconangle.com/2019/11/12/directly-software-buys-conversational-ai-startup-kylie-ai/

Web

November 12, 2019

Directly, which taps experts to train chatbots, raises $11M, closes out Series B at $51M

Ingrid Lunden

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/20/directly-which-trains-customer-service-chatbots-with-expert-advice-raises-11m-more/

Web

May 20, 2020

Directly's Intelligent Platform Reinventing Chatbots

CIO Applications

https://www.cioapplications.com/news/directly-s-intelligent-platform-reinventing-chatbots--nid-5663.html

Web

February 10, 2020

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