FinovateSpring 2014 / Yseop
Presenter Profile:
How they describe themselves: Yseop is a Smart Machine based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Generation (NLG), which writes intelligent text just like a human being, but at a speed of thousands of pages per second. Yseop boosts productivity in the financial industry, drives sales, and transforms financial advisors into instant experts without additional training. Yseop turns Big Data into comments and actionable insights by instantly writing any type of report (such as executive summaries, fact sheets, stock profiles, investment, earnings reports, etc.) in real time and in multiple languages (currently in English, Spanish, French, German, etc.).
How they describe their product/innovation: Yseop Sales Force Productivity Suite (YSF) and its email writing application, called “YseMail” (“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 advisor or customer to gather contextual data, and produces written conclusions such as pre- and post-meeting summaries, personalized marketing communications, and prep-to-meeting documents in less than a second.
Product Distribution Strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions
Contacts:
Bus. Dev. & Sales: Matthew Kropp, Director of Sales & Marketing, mkropp@yseop.com,
214-393-9719
Press: Arden Manning, Director of Communications, amanning@yseop.com, 646-480-0633
Website: yseop.com
Blog: yseop.com/blog
Twitter: @yseopAI
HQ: Dallas, Texas (U.S. HQ); Lyon, France (European HQ); offices in New York, London & Paris
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: April 2014 (in the United States)
Metrics: Privately self-funded. Over 20 years of research. 35 employees. 30 large customers with 20,000 users in production daily in the banking & insurance industries.
Presenters: Elizabeth Farabee (VP Marketing),
Matt Rauscher (Consultant)
- Key Executives
John Rauscher (CEO), Elizabeth Farabee (VP Marketing), Matthew Kropp (Director of Sales & 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
Currently in production with over 30,000 users across all industries. Largest customer in production is a retail bank with 12,500 daily users.