The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Leena AI, an AI-powered conversational platform used by major enterprises such as Nestlé, Coca-Cola, and P&G, has raised $30 million in a series B round of funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Founded out of New York in 2018, Leena AI is one of numerous conversational AI platforms that enable companies of all sizes to automate conversations through chatbot-like technology. However, Leena AI is carving a niche for itself by focusing specifically on human resource (HR) teams -- it's basically an automated employee helpdesk. Leena AI CEO and cofounder Adit Jain said that his company is setting out to be a "Siri for employees," emulating shifts elsewhere in the technological spectrum -- it's about replacing the old way of doing things with something more in line with what people are accustomed to in their everyday lives.

Gurugram-based HRtech startup Leena AI has become a part of summer class 2018 of US-based investor Y Combinator and has confirmed an investment from the company. Talking to Inc42, Adit Jain, co-founder told that while building bots, the team learned through its experience with ChatterOn that it's better to concentrate on a single subject because the underlying machine learning model gets better the more it's used. Following this understanding, the team launched Leena AI in August 2017 as a provider of virtual assistants for the workplace to focus on human resources chatbot. As an enterprise virtual agent, currently focusing on HR, Leena AI draws all functionality from ChatterOn, which increases the speed of execution by multi-fold. "To deliver value, you can't do many things and must focus on a few. We felt that the biggest pain in the internal shared services space was in HR because of highly fragmented back-end application landscape and decided to go deeper in the HR vertical," Anit explained.

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