Key Stats
Name: Hyper Anna
Sector: Artificial Intelligence, Data
Founders: Natalie Nguyen, Sam Zheng, Kent Tian
CEO: Natalie Nguyen
Year of investment: 2016, 2017
Rounds: Seed, Series A
Co-investors: Airtree Ventures, Sequoia China
What they do
Hyper Anna is a natural-language driven artificial intelligence data analytics solution that enables businesses to interact with and understand their data collections and derive strategic insights either without needing in-house data scientists, or freeing up in-house resources to focus on more complex analytics tasks. Customers can use voice, text or email to ask ‘Anna’ a question about existing data sets, receiving a response in real-time in the form of charts and insights once Anna has analysed the data.
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Why we like them
The Hyper Anna team has built a product that would offer great productivity gains and be popular with a large, under-served market of corporate employees and small businesses.