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Emotech
AI & robotic solutions
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Artificial Intelligence
- Enterprise
- Robotics
- Machine Learning
- SaaS
- 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ
Company mission
To improve the relationship between humans and technology; utilising innovative brain-inspired AI to revolutionise the way people interact with technology.
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Emotech develops AI software for a range of enterprise purposes by leveraging multimodality and speech technology. The company has been around since 2014, but in 2019 it decided to turn its primary focus to Core Speech Technologies, which can be used for things like teaching assistance, language translation and AI avatars for customer service.
Emotech burst onto the AI scene when it introduced its flagship product, an AI personal assistant named Olly. Unlike Alexa, Siri, and others, Olly generated excitement for being able to change its own personality depending on that of its owner.
Emotech is now headed in a B2B direction. This looks like a shrewd move as there’s been a groundswell of activity for AI in the enterprise world, where it’s being used for customer service, HR, translation, as well as in the education space.
Benefits
- Sharing & guest lectures
- Pet Friendly Office
- Convenient London location
- Flexible and remote working
- Family-friendly business trips
- Performance bonus
- Medical Insurance
- Pension Scheme
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2016
$10m
SERIES A
$10m
Total funding
Founders
Hongbin Zhuang
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked at RenRen, the Chinese social network, as Senior Product Manager and then as Product Director.
Chelsea Chen
(Co-Founder)Former Ogilvy Head of Social Marketing and founding team member of Unesco AI Center.
Jan Medvesek, Ph.D.
(Co-Founder)Former Software and Hardware Developer at FDS Research and XpanD in Slovenia. Before co-founding Emotech, was a Researcher and Electronics Design & Support Engineers at University College London.