- Thankful — an AI platform powering the customer service revolution — announced recently it raised $12 million in Series A funding. These are the details.
Thankful — an AI platform powering the customer service revolution — recently emerged from stealth mode with the announcement of a $12 million Series A funding round led by Alpha Edison. And other investors include Bonfire, Ten-One-Ten, Greycroft, Omega, and Miramar.
Thankful’s 400% year-over-year growth since launch in 2018 is largely due to its superior intelligence — which can resolve large volumes of customer problems across all written customer service channels – email, chat, social, in-app, and SMS.
To date, Thankful has quietly been at the forefront of the industry-trusted by brands who lead the world in customer experience, like Crate & Barrel, FabFitFun, MeUndies, Morphe, and Bombas. With this round of financing, Thankful will now be able to further scale its enterprise business and continue to reimagine how customer experience can evolve from basic problem solving to complex, personalized relationship-building.
Since Thankful’s breakthrough technology understands what customers want and delivers the answers customers are seeking, it has also become a go-to partner for the world’s leading helpdesks, including Zendesk, Kustomer, and Gladly.
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“Thankful stood out to us because it’s the only customer support software that’s on the customer’s side – and we know from our experience that will always be the winning side. What attracted us most was the traction they achieved in a short time, and the vision of turning customer service from a cost center to revenue driver.”
— Robey Miller, Partner at Alpha Edison
“Thankful’s level of intelligent customer service engagement was deeper than anything we’d seen before, and in service, understanding the customer is critical.”
— Bonfire Partner, Jim Andleman
“We are so grateful to our investors and thrilled that they share our mission of giving every customer access to exceptional service by providing every business the technology to deliver it. This financing will help us to continue to lead the transformation of customer service into an effective sales and marketing channel.”
— Thankful AI CEO Ted Mico
