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Beyond Ventures' Promising Portfolio Company Respond.Io Raised Us$7M To Bring Social Commerce To Enterprises

PRIVATESep 20, 2022

Amount Raised

$7 Million

Round Type

Funding Round

SoftwareE CommerceMessagingSaaS

Description

Hong Kong-based venture capital firm Beyond Ventures is pleased to announce that its portfolio company respond.io, a Malaysia-based social to conversational commerce SaaS platform has closed US$7 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Headline Asia with participation from AltaIR Capital, Smart Partnership Capital, Sterling Oak Group & Calendula Ventures.

Quick answer

Respond.io raised $7 Million in a Funding Round round, dated September 20, 2022.

How much did Respond.io raise?
Respond.io raised $7 Million in a Funding Round round on September 20, 2022.
What does Respond.io do?
Respond.io is the leading social to conversational commerce platform that unifies customer communication, enabling enterprise businesses to extend their marketing, sales & support initiatives onto instant messaging with..
Where is Respond.io based and how big is it?
Fundz records about 170 employees.

Source: Fundz verified event record.

Who else raised in E Commerce and Messaging around the same time

Companies in the same sectors as Respond.io that raised within 45 days of this round, from Fundz verified event records.

  • Cledara raised $20M (Funding Round) on October 14, 2022.
  • Ownly raised $2.5M (Seed) on October 3, 2022.
  • Cledara raised $20M (Funding Round) on September 12, 2022.
  • LiSA raised $2.9M (Seed) on August 18, 2022.
  • Orchestry raised an undisclosed amount (Funding Round) on November 3, 2022.
  • ORO raised $25M (Series A) on November 3, 2022.

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Company Information

Company

Respond.io

About

Respond.io is the leading social to conversational commerce platform that unifies customer communication, enabling enterprise businesses to extend their marketing, sales & support initiatives onto instant messaging with ease. Over 10,000 companies from 86 countries, including Klook, Decathlon, Abenson, Yoho, Roche, ShareChat and Bigo already use respond.io.

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