Kate Park / TechCrunch:
Kuala Lumpur-based Respond.io, which uses AI agents to manage customer conversations, has raised a $62.5 million Series B led by Camber, following a $7 million Series A in 2022.— In 2017, Respond.io sought to solve a simple problem: businesses couldn’t keep track of customers who had switched to messaging apps.
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