Henley Business Angels led the seed round to support team expansion and UK regional growth.
"My team and I are very excited about the next stage for Placed and have big plans for 2020. We’re grateful for the support from our new investors and are pleased to welcome such experienced and influential shareholders to our extended Placed team."
The seed round was led by GC Angels to support product finalisation and team growth.
"It is a really exciting time for Immersify Education with the investment and support from such fantastic investors to take us through the final stages of development."
The conversational platform formerly known as Dazzle has raised its first seed financing from corporate and government backers.
"The response to our tech and proposition has been incredible. We’ve always believed that we had a transformational product with HelloDone so to have such strong backing gives us even more confidence. Businesses have to start meeting consumers where they are, on WhatsApp, on Facebook Messenger, on Alexa and all the other messaging channels. HelloDone is scaling it’s conversational platform using natural language processing to enable businesses in the Transport, Home Delivery and Utilities space to solve customer needs via messaging channels and voice assistants. It’s an amazing platform and the funding will enable us to capture the growth potential we believe exists."
The funding will support product development and international sales as the Belfast communications firm targets one million users.
"We are seeing organisations all over the world waking up to the strong business benefits of good employee comms. With the vast majority of people now carrying a smartphone, it makes an app the perfect way to connect with employees. We’ve designed the Thrive platform to be so easy to use that organisations can be up and running and improving the way they communicate and share information with employees in no time."