Arabot, an Amman-based'Bot as a Service' startup has raised $1 million in seed funding led Saudi's Riyad Taqnia Fund (RTF) with participation from existing investors, RTF announced in a statement to MENAbytes. Founded in 2016 by Abdallah Faza and Kais Hassan in 2016, Arabot allows businesses to integrate and use its intelligent Arabic bot (that also speaks English) through their website, mobile app, or contact center platform to engage with customers. Arabot according to its website is built upon Arabic NLP engine which can understand and analyze Arabic content and conversation in different Arabic dialects. "We are building a conversation/dialogue management as a hybrid rule-based system fused with Deep Machine Learning to reach needed levels of Natural Language Understanding (NLU)," notes Arabot's website. The service that could be used by businesses mainly for customer service and promotion can be integrated in their website, mobile app, contact center platform, or messaging platform.