Podium
Podium is a comprehensive AI-driven platform designed to streamline lead management and customer communication for businesses, currently serving more than 100,000 customers. Its flagship feature, the AI Employee, guarantees round-the-clock engagement with leads, enabling faster responses that translate into higher conversion rates and increased sales. Businesses benefit from a unified dashboard that merges calls, texts, payment requests, and bulk messaging to nurture prospects and drive repeat business effectively. Podium’s intelligent automation handles customer inquiries seamlessly across all communication platforms, ensuring consistent and accurate messaging. The company has gained industry acclaim, appearing on Forbes’ Next Billion Dollar Startups, the Inc. 5000, and Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies lists. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Lehi, Utah, Podium enjoys backing from top investors such as Accel, Summit Partners, GV, and Y Combinator. Its platform empowers businesses to build lasting customer relationships through efficient, AI-enhanced communication. Podium continues to innovate, helping companies scale their lead conversion efforts globally.
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D&B Hoovers
D&B Hoovers can help you create a more profitable relationship from prospect to client faster. Find key prospects and growth opportunities. D&B Hoovers, a sales acceleration solution, provides a faster path to prospect to profitable relationship through the use of data and analytics. B2B sales professionals can connect with customers faster to grow their businesses. Access detailed intelligence on over 120 million business records. Provide insight and intelligence into the tools that your marketers and sellers use every day. A user-friendly interface and automated workflow features, including triggers, alerts and smart lists, as well as intuitive search and conceptual search. D&B Hoovers combines Dun & Bradstreet's largest commercial database with sophisticated analytics to provide a rich sales intelligence solution. D&B Hoovers provides dynamic search and list-building capabilities as well as realtime trigger alerts, detailed company profiles and valuable research reports.
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Nonverbia
Nonverbia serves as an AI-driven sales assistant and coach that improves interactions in virtual meetings by assessing nonverbal signals, vocal tone, body movements, and emotional expressions in real-time during video conferences, enabling the identification of concealed objections, recognition of buying indicators, and assessment of engagement levels. With support for over 100 languages, it offers real-time coaching feedback during meetings, allowing sales professionals to adapt their strategies on the fly. Following meetings, Nonverbia creates comprehensive summaries, updates CRM systems automatically, proposes tailored follow-up actions, and provides pipeline intelligence that includes alerts on potential risks and forecasts for deals. By merging sales coaching with meeting analytics, it grants insight into the dynamics of conversations, the status of deals at risk, and the next steps to take. Ultimately, it aims to empower teams to close more sales by interpreting the unspoken elements of communication and translating those insights into practical guidance for improvement. Additionally, this innovative tool fosters a heightened awareness of interpersonal dynamics, enhancing the effectiveness of sales engagements.
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Substrata
Substrata employs artificial intelligence to provide real-time social awareness for business dealmakers. It aims to help users navigate complex interpersonal dynamics in sales, negotiations, and other business development contexts by detecting linguistic and behavioral cues. The goal is to provide insights into factors like office politics, hierarchies, perceptions, emotions, biases, attitudes, and power dynamics that can impact deal outcomes. Substrata is positioned as a valuable tool for a range of roles such as CEOs, founders, sales leaders, account executives, and dealmakers in investment banking, corporate development, and M&A. By revealing social and relational nuances, the technology seeks to complement professional expertise in navigating deals and relationships.
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