FinovateEurope 2014 / Yseop
Presenter Profile:
How they describe themselves: Yseop is artificial intelligence software, which writes (and speaks) intelligent text, just like a human being, but at a speed of thousands of pages per second. Yseop revolutionizes the financial industry by boosting productivity, driving sales and turning each financial advisor into an expert without additional training.
How they describe their product/innovation: Yseop Sales Force Productivity Suite (YSF) and its email writing application, called “YseMail” (pronounced “Easy-Mail”), is an integrated sales performance boosting solution to be plugged into a CRM, which supports the financial advisor throughout the sales cycle. YSF analyzes customer data, dialogs intelligently with the financial advisor or customer to gather contextual data and produces written conclusions in seconds, including pre- and post-meeting summaries, personalized marketing communications and prep-to-meeting documents. YSF has demonstrated an improvement in sales productivity of 20% overnight.
Product Distribution Strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through other fintech companies
Contacts:
Bus. Dev. & Sales: Matt Rauscher, Consultant, mrauscher@yseop.com, +44 (0)208 123 5707
Press: Arden Manning, Communications Director, amanning@yseop.com, +44 (0)775 796 0633
Website: yseop.com
Blog: yseop.com/blog
Twitter: @YseopAI
HQ: Lyon, France (European Headquarters) & Dallas, Texas (U.S. Headquarters)
Founded: First commercialized as a stand-alone product in Europe at the end of 2008.
Product Demoed: YseMail (“Easy-Mail”) & Yseop Sales Force Productivity (YSF) Suite
Product Launch: February 2014
Metrics: Privately self-funded. Over 20 years of research. Commercialized as a stand-alone product in Europe at end of 2008. 30 employees. Winner of 2013 Google-sponsored DMA Innovation Award for its CRM integrated cross-selling solution. Selected as French National Champion for the 2013-14 European Business Awards. Largest customer in production is a retail bank with 12,500 daily users.
Presenters: Elizabeth Farabee (VP Marketing), Arden Manning (Communications & Bus. Dev.)
- Key Executives
John Rauscher (CEO), Elizabeth Farabee (VP Marketing)
Key Stats
- Key Board Members
John Rauscher (CEO, Yseop), Alain Kaeser (President & CSO, Yseop), Olivier Bonnet (CFO, Yseop), Jacques Habib (Former EVP, Accenture)
- Key Advisory Board Members
John Rauscher (CEO, Yseop), Alain Kaeser (President & CSO, Yseop), Olivier Bonnet (CFO, Yseop), Jacques Habib (Former EVP, Accenture)
- Key Investors
John Rauscher (CEO, Yseop & business angel)
- Key Partnerships
Accenture & Kurt Salmon
- Key Customers
20 large customers with 20,000 users in production daily in the banking & insurance industries. Recently signed a deal to deploy Yseop’s technology for over 25,000 users at another large financial institution. Currently in production with over 30,000 users.