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Sprout Social Built a $457 Million Business on Social Chaos. Now It’s Cutting 20% to Bet on AI.
The Chicago software company made order out of feeds, comments and customer complaints. Its next act is harder: prove that social data is enterprise intelligence - and that the premium price, acquisitions and painful reset are worth it.
The Company That Turned Every Comment, DM, and Review Into a Job for the Machines
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.
The Call Center Disappeared. Alta Resources Kept the Conversation
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
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.