In regards to the time that Floworks co-founders Sudipta Biswas and Sarthak Shrivastava have been beginning at Y Combinator within the Winter 23 cohort, they’d a chat with veteran investor Vinod Khosla, who inspired the pair to assume larger. They stated that that dialog had an enormous affect on them as they have been constructing Floworks, an AI assistant designed to assist full mundane enterprise duties.
Right now, the corporate introduced a $1.5 million seed funding.
“Basically, our product is an AI assistant, which may work together with completely different software program merchandise that information staff use each day, comparable to Gmail, Google Calendar or Salesforce, and you may merely instruct these merchandise in plain pure language to get your stuff accomplished,” Biswas instructed TechCrunch. The main focus is on utilizing AI to reinforce the employee expertise, reasonably than change workers.
For starters, they’re principally concentrating on gross sales use instances, whereas supporting a handful of functions together with HubSpot and Salesforce together with Google Docs, Google Calendar and Gmail, however the aim is so as to add extra integrations over time and embody staff in operations, product and different areas of an organization.
Customers begin by opening the Floworks internet app and signing into any functions they wish to work with. After they’ve signed into the specified functions, they will entry the Floworks assistant in Slack, then use plain language to explain what they wish to do, comparable to put a brand new contact within the CRM database, add a calendar invite to the calendar utility and ship out an introductory electronic mail.
Every motion triggers an approval, and if the bot wants extra data or clarification, it’ll request it as a part of a dialog in Slack, as Floworks takes on the function of useful assistant. They’re additionally aiming so as to add help for Microsoft Groups sooner or later.
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They’ve working beta at the moment with paying prospects and report ARR near $250,000, in response to the founders. They plan to broaden income potentialities by working with channel companions sooner or later. The 2 co-founders say that they hope to defend the concept in opposition to massive firm encroachment by being an assistant that may finally work with nearly any utility you may log into by means of their internet app. “The place we differentiate ourselves is that our product permits interoperability throughout a number of functions,” Biswas stated, and he believes this may separate them from bigger corporations centered on their very own product households.
Floworks at present has 11 workers with areas in San Francisco and Bangalore, India, and the 2 founders see constructing a various workforce as key to constructing a profitable product.
“We predict range is the important thing to having a product that we are attempting to construct. So once we have a look at the imaginative and prescient of our product, it’s to actually change how the world has been utilizing software program for the reason that age of software program was began. And that signifies that everybody on this world must be a part of this answer, and by that we simply don’t imply people who find themselves coming and dealing with us, however we additionally imply by companions who’re working with us,” Shrivastava stated.
Right now’s $1.5 million seed spherical was led by Y Combinator and Sense AI with participation from Gaingels, Entrepreneur First and ThinKuvate. The funding closed in Might.