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amber Raised €7 Million to Build the Boring Layer Europe’s AI Agents Need
The Aachen startup began with a search box. Now it is betting that Europe’s mid-sized companies need something less visible - a governed context layer that lets AI find, explain and eventually do the work.
Juliet Randall
Juliet Randall has spent more than two decades turning enterprise complexity into a story customers can act on. At SAP Americas, her real product is alignment - across markets, teams, technology and trust.
SAP
The 54-year-old German software maker quietly runs the plumbing of global business - and it is betting its next chapter on AI it calls Joule.
Uniphore
Uniphore is a Business AI company that helps large enterprises put their own data to work without moving or copying it. What began in 2008 as a speech-recognition startup incubated at IIT Madras has become a full-stack, multimodal AI platform - the Business AI Cloud - that powers AI agents across customer service, sales, and back-office workflows for more than 1,600 enterprises in 20+ countries.
Umesh Sachdev
Umesh Sachdev is the CEO and co-founder of Uniphore, a Palo Alto-based business AI company he started in Chennai in 2008 with college friend Ravi Saraogi. What began as a multilingual speech recognition startup incubated at IIT Madras has grown into one of the largest AI-native enterprise SaaS companies in the world, serving over 2,500 customers and approaching $1 billion in bookings. In October 2025 Uniphore closed a $260 million Series F co-led by NVIDIA, AMD, Snowflake and Databricks.