Emplifi stitched social listening, customer care, and shoppable video into one platform - and now points AI at the whole pile. Here is how a Prague analytics startup and an Ohio call-center vendor became a customer-experience company worth a billion dollars.
Alta Resources built an 8,000-person outsourcing business by treating customer service as part of the product. Now it is threading conversational AI through a model designed around dedicated human teams.
aCommerce is Southeast Asia's largest end-to-end e-commerce enabler, running online sales operations on behalf of global brands across Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore. Founded in Bangkok in 2013, it combines managed services - storefront design, performance marketing, customer care, warehousing and last-mile delivery - with a proprietary software stack, EcommerceIQ, that gives brands a single view of their marketplace, D2C and social-commerce channels. Backers include Emerald Media (KKR), Indies Capital and Blue Sky, and the company has raised roughly US$119M to date.