• Voice Sentiment Analysis Startup Saygent Raises $1 Million

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    Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in... → Learn More

    Thursday, May 19th, 2011

    Saygent, a SaaS startup that helps companies figure out the sentiment behind customer voice responses, has raised $1 million in seed funding from 500 StartupsInnovation Endeavors, Juvo Capital, Kapor Capital, Kima Ventures, Orefa Investment, PG Ventures, Ty Danco and Matthew Grodin.

    With clients from Fortune 500 companies including Comcast and other biggies, Saygent uses crowd-sourcing to automate the processing and analysis of natural language at high-volume, helping brands figure out audience sentiment, intent and other characteristics valuable to marketers.

    Founder Guy Hirsch hopes to challenge the call center industry, “The mission Saygent took upon itself will define a new category in enterprise feedback management or, in other words, how companies think about using phone-intensive workflows in general.”

    Hirsch wants to use the additional financing to hire engineers and amp up business development efforts.

    You can learn more about Saygent and its mission by watching this video of the founders at 500 Startups Demo Day, below.

    Company: Saygent
    Website: saygent.com
    Launch Date: 2009
    Funding: $1M

    Saygent’s voice response & analysis SaaS allows companies to get superior customer insights at scale. Saygent automatically interviews thousands of customers and analyzes their responses for meaning and sentiment without using the expensive call centers or costly IVR systems. Saygent takes only 2 minutes to set up, and within hours, you get rich dashboard with actionable results. You quickly get a sense of the the most important trends and can listen to specific important calls of champions or detractors....

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