AI Company adds $33 million in new equity financing from Novartis (dRx Capital), Eli Lilly and Company, McKesson Ventures and existing investors to help the life sciences industry accelerate the future of working with customers.
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Tact honored for achievements in Sales and CRM. CB Insights today named Tact.ai to the fifth annual AI 100 ranking, showcasing the 100 most promising private artificial intelligence companies in the world. Tact.ai is one of only five companies se...
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Tact.ai, the human-friendly CRM company, and BASE life science, a specialist in sales and marketing innovation for pharmaceutical and life sciences companies, announced a new partnership designed to help life science brands improve engagement wi...
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Tact.ai, the human-friendly CRM company, and BASE life science, a specialist in sales and marketing innovation for pharmaceutical and life sciences companies, announced a new partnership designed to help life science brands improve engagement wit...
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Sales productivity solutions are software or applications that help optimize seller performance and productivity. They can provide insights that facilitate meaningful buyer-seller conversations...
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Tact.ai’s substantial AI platform offerings caught the attention of their fifth Fortune 500 organization. Honeywell invested into the human-friendly customer relationship management (CRM) company via Honeywell Ventures...
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Honeywell made the investment through Honeywell Ventures, which focuses on high-growth companies from around the world that have emerging or disruptive technologies and are strategically aligned to the company’s portfolio...
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Tact.ai, the human-friendly CRM company, announced it has received an investment from Honeywell. Honeywell made the investment through Honeywell Ventures, which focuses on high-growth companies from around the world that have emerging...
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Artificial intelligence is the latest trend in technology, and its application cutting across all fields. It’s all about technology mimicking biological intelligence. Here are three ways tech startups are using AI to revolutionize customer experie...
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I have to say right off the top here: Chuck Ganapathi was right! Or at least he's well on his way to being so. Chuck, the founder and CEO of Tact.AI, a startup focused on changing the way sales people interact with their CRM systems using their...
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Read MoreTact.ai, the customer engagement company for life sciences, today announced a new round of equity financing totaling $33 million that included investments from Novartis (dRx Capital), Lilly and McKesson Ventures. Existing investors including Microsoft’s M12 and Salesforce Ventures also participated in the round, bringing the company’s total funding to $88 million.
Read MoreCB Insights today named Tact.ai to the fifth annual AI 100 ranking, showcasing the 100 most promising private artificial intelligence companies in the world. Tact.ai is one of only five companies selected in the cross-industry Sales and CRM category, and the only company that counts Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce.com as inves...
Read MoreTact.ai, the human-friendly CRM company, today announced the appointment of David Logue as Senior Vice President Strategy & General Manager of Life Sciences. Logue brings more than two decades of experience in the life science industry, most recently as SVP of Commercial Strategy at Veeva Systems, as well as a Partner at Accenture...
Read MoreTact.ai, the human-friendly CRM company, and BASE life science, a specialist in sales and marketing innovation for pharmaceutical and life sciences companies, announced a new partnership designed to help life science brands improve engagement with healthcare professionals (HCPs). The model and ways pharmaceutical companies interact with HCPs have been dramatically altered since the start of COVID-19. While restrictions are changing daily for who can enter hospitals and facilities...
Read MoreSunnyvale seems like the right place to establish a startup, with its prime Silicon Valley location and palpable work-life-balance vibes. As its namesake suggests, Sunnyvale boasts year-round mild weather, as well as a quaint downtown district that beckons to young families and professionals. In this sense, the town could be called the quintessential Silicon Valley city, with its California sunshine and strong tech community feel. So unsurprisingly, many startups have decided to carve out sp...
Read MoreHoneywell also deploying Tact.ai artificial intelligence digital assistant tool to its global sales teams. Honeywell made the investment through Honeywell Ventures, which focuses on high- growth companies from around the world that have emerging or disruptive technologies and are strategically aligned to the company’s portfolio and digital transformation objectives...
Read MoreTact.ai, a conversational AI sales platform, today announced it was named to the Constellation ShortList™ for Sales Productivity in Q3 2018. This marks the fourth consecutive placement for the company on the coveted list of top companies helping reshape enterprise sales. The technology vendors included in the Constellation ShortList offer the key requirements for early adopters pursuing digital transformation initiatives...
Read MoreTact.ai, a conversational AI sales platform, today announced the completion of its $27M Series C fundraise, bringing the company’s total funding to more than $57M. New investors include Amazon Alexa Fund, Comcast Ventures and Salesforce Ventures, with existing investors Accel Partners, M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures), Redpoint Ventures and Upfront Ventures all participating in the oversubscribed round...
Read MoreTact.ai, the sales experience platform for the intelligent edge, today announced release of the Tact Sales Assistant Skill for Amazon Alexa. Selected as a launch partner for Alexa for Business, the Tact Skill unlocks a conversational and bidirectional interface into the tools that salespeople use every day such as Salesforce, LinkedIn and Microsoft Exchange. Tact.ai will be onstage at Amazon Web Services’ re: invent 2017 in Las Vegas, NV.
Read More• First omnichannel AI-powered assistant for sales teams named 2017 Digital Innovation Award Winner by Ventana Research • Single pane of glass for sellers adds new LinkedIn Sales Navigator Application Platform integration to accelerate sales cycles • Leading Independent Research Firm Profiles Two Fortune 100 companies using Tact Sales Assistant
Read MoreTact, the sales experience platform, today announced a collaboration with Microsoft to integrate its conversational AI-assistant with Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Cortana, Microsoft Graph and Sentiment Analysis. The collaboration was announced during a keynote led by Microsoft’s Head of Artificial Intelligence Research, Harry Shum, on Wed., May 10 at Microsoft Build 2017 in Seattle, WA.
Read MoreTact, the sales experience platform, today announced it has been designated to the Cool Vendors in CRM Sales, 2017 report by Gartner, Inc.’s Tad Travis and Ilona Hansen published April 24, 2017. The report evaluates artificial intelligence and machine-learning technologies capable of improving CRM programs and disrupting traditional sales execution and coaching approaches.
Read MoreTact, the sales experience platform, today announced it will be presenting at the CX Sales General Session at Oracle’s Modern Customer Experience 17 event on April 25 -27 in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. Tact will preview the upcoming integration of its conversational AI assistant with Oracle Sales Cloud. In addition, Tact has achieved a Silver level membership within the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN).
Read MoreTact, the sales experience platform, today announced it was named to the Constellation ShortList for Sales Productivity for Q1 2017. With 52 percent of the Fortune 500 turning over since 2000, success requires a rethink around the core mission and business model of an organization. The companies included on the Constellation ShortList provide the key functionality and requirements for early adopters pursuing digital transformation initiatives...
Read MoreTact, the sales experience platform, today announced its AI-powered smart assistant for salespeople is now available in messaging environments like the newly released Slack Enterprise Grid. Sales teams can now access their most critical tools -- Salesforce, LinkedIn, Zendesk and more – through natural touch, text and voice interfaces without ever having to leave the conversation...
Read MoreTact, the sales experience platform, today announced the close of a new $15 million funding round. Upfront Ventures led the series B, with its managing partner Mark Suster joining the Board. Microsoft Ventures also participated in the new financing round, along with existing investors Kevin Efrusy of Accel Partners and Satish Dharmaraj of Redpoint Ventures. With the new capital, Tact’s total funding now exceeds $30 million.
Read MoreTactile, the leader in mobile sales productivity, today announced it has won a Gold Stevie® Award for Best Relationship Management Solution (new version) in the tenth annual Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service. This is the second consecutive year that Tactile has achieved this honor. Other notable Stevie Award winners this year include CallidusCloud, Clearslide, Hubspot, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Salesforce, SugarCRM and Xactly.
Read MoreTactile, the company on a mission to make the world a happier place to work, today announced that renowned technology industry veteran Subrah Iyar has been named Board Observer and Strategic Advisor to its Board of Directors. Iyar was the co-founder and CEO of WebEx and led the company to its $3.2 billion acquisition by Cisco Systems in 2007. Tactile also announced that Iyar has made an undisclosed investment in the company to help fuel its...
Read MoreTactile, the company on a mission to make the world a happier place to work, today announced breakthrough new mobile technology that dramatically improves the daily lives of salespeople. Tact is the award-winning, mobile-first command center designed specifically for field salespeople, combining the tools they use everyday -- phone, email, calendar and Salesforce CRM -- into one seamless mobile experience that works online and offline. Today Tactile is unveiling new products that empower sal...
Read MoreTactile, the company on a mission to make the world a happier place to work, today announced it has won a Silver for "Best New Enterprise Product of the Year" in the Best in Biz Awards 2015 International, the only independent global business awards program judged by members of the media and industry analyst communities. This award follows Tactile winning a Gold Stevie Award for Best New Relationship Management Solution.
Read MoreTactile, the company on a mission to make the world a happier place to work, today announced it has won a Gold Stevie Award for Best New Relationship Management Solution in the 2015 Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service are the world's top sales, business development, contact center and customer service awards. Other winners this year include CallidusCloud, ClearSlide, SAP, SugarCRM and Xactl
Read MoreTactile, the company on a mission to make the world a happier place to work, today unveils Tact Premium. The first-of-its-kind truly mobile command center designed specifically for salespeople, Tact Premium combines the tools they use every day -- phone, email, calendar, and Salesforce -- into one seamless experience. This new subscription-based offering builds upon the success of the company's free app that debuted earlier this year and is now in use by salespeople at more than 3,000 companies.
Read MoreTact.ai, das Kundenengagement-Unternehmen für Life Sciences, hat die Ernennung von zwei neuen Board Advisors aus der Pharmaindustrie bekanntgegeben: Giuseppe Firenze, Global Commercial Information Officer von Eli Lilly and Company und Desmond Creary, Chief Customer Engagement Officer für Novartis US. Giuseppe Firenze und Desmond Creary werden eine wichtige Rolle bei der Entwicklung der erweiterten Funktionen der Plattform übernehmen, um möglichst viele Patienten schneller mit innovativen Medikam
Read MoreTact.ai, la société d'engagement client pour les sciences de la vie, a annoncé la nomination de deux nouveaux conseillers du conseil d'administration issus de l'industrie pharmaceutique : Giuseppe Firenze, responsable de l'information commerciale mondiale chez Eli Lilly and Company, et Desmond Creary, responsable de l'engagement client chez Novartis US. Giuseppe et Desmond joueront un rôle clé dans le développement des capacités avancées de la plateforme pour permettre de fournir plus rapidemen
Read MoreTact.ai welcomes two new pharma executives as board advisors to accelerate innovation in life sciences customer engagement. Giuseppe Firenze, Global Commercial Information Officer of Eli Lilly and Company, and Desmond Creary, Chief Customer Engagement Officer for Novartis US. Giuseppe and Desmond will play key roles in the development of the platform’s advanced capabilities to help deliver innovative medicines to more patients faster.
Read MoreTact.ai, the customer engagement company for life sciences,announced today a set of new capabilities that improve customer access for thefield. The new capabilities help teams appear in customer inboxes morefrequently, and work where the HCPs want to work – like Microsoft Teams forremote engagement – in a compliant way whilst providing them the data &content they need to deliver personalized journeys across all channels.
Read MoreTact.ai, the customer engagement company for life sciences, announced today that former Novartis Pharma Global CIO and SVP, Andreas Müller, has joined the company as an Advisor. His role will focus on working with commercial and medical leaders to accelerate successful hybrid customer engagement that support new and more agile go-to-market models.
Read MoreHikma Pharmaceuticals PLC (Hikma), the multinational pharmaceutical company, announces that its venture capital arm, Hikma Ventures has invested in Tact.ai, the customer engagement company for life sciences. Tact.ai helps pharmaceutical companies work more effectively with health care professionals (HCPs) to deliver innovative medicines to patients faster. The investment is the fourth Life Sciences industry investment in the past six months for Tact.ai, following its $33 million USD fundraise...
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