Aviso, the pioneer in AI-powered guided selling, announced reaching a slew of corporate milestones in Q3 2019. These include further customer momentum building on recent funding by Storm Ventures, winning recognition as a major category leader, making key new executive hires, and expanding both in the US and internationally. Aviso's headcount has increased by 30% under new CEO Trevor Templar, and revenues are up over 100% year on year. The company expanded with both new and existing clients in Q3, including major Fortune 500 corporations such as Honeywell and MongoDB. Aviso also won recognition as an industry leader for the third year running in G2 Crowd's annual tech-sector power ranking.

Tom Victory, VP of Marketing The explosion of data has made the conventional techniques of sales forecasting and pipeline management obsolete. Although companies require optimized solutions to stay ahead of the competition curve, they continue to rely on traditional methods for mining value from legacy CRM data and spreadsheets. Architecting a paradigm shift is Aviso, a solution that automates the sales forecasting process through its AI-powered platform. The platform draws insights from the client's CRM data and offers predictive sales insights. Using its state-of-the-art technology, sales leaders use the real-time information Aviso puts at their fingertips to course correct where needed and proactively shape quarterly sales results.

Every customer interaction creates an opportunity. Whether for information, sales, help or something else, companies today need to know what their customers want or, more precisely, through artificial intelligence-based customer relations management (CRM), what they want and when they want it. In an article published earlier this year about 8 Artificial Intelligence Startups Improving CRM, we showed you some of the top companies and startups in this sector, from giant Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) to the small firm DeepGram. More recently, we talked about the increasing customization of the online marketing experience that will no doubt also play into the B2B space for customer relations. Here we look at six more niche-oriented startups pushing the AI CRM field in some different, interesting directions. Austin-based CognitiveScale is the relative heavyweight in this group, pulling in $40 million in funding since 2014, with a $15 million Series C injection in June from power investors Intel and Microsoft.