USA – Uniphore, a Palo Alto, CA-based company providing conversational AI and automation, acquired Hexagone, a Strasbourg, France-based company offering visual and text-based data to provide AI-derived insights.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.As part of the acquisition, Hexagone founder and CEO Camille Srour, PhD, Behavioral Psychology, and his team of data scientists have joined Uniphore. The Integration of Hexagone’s technology into Uniphore’s X platform will enhance the capability to fuse all data derived from computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), knowledge AI, and voice and tonal analysis to pick up behavioral and emotional cues.The acquisition of Hexagone adds to Uniphore’s innovation portfolio, which includes emotion AI, no code/low code development and knowledge AI. Serving customers in a range of industries from telecom and financial services to healthcare and hospitality, Uniphore also closed a $400M round of funding in 2022 at a $2.5 billion valuation.It is led by CEO Umesh Sachdev. 08/02/2023
