Finance Birmingham manages funding initiatives such as the Rail Supply Growth Fund, providing capital packages to businesses operating in the rail sector.
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."
Midven contributed to the round alongside The ERA Foundation, The Carbon Trust, Forward Group and Finance Birmingham.
"Against a background of rapidly increasing costs for power and staff, and an increasingly competitive marketplace together with the uptake of cloud computing, the trend is clear – data centres will need to become significantly larger, be more cost effective and better managed."
