- Cyara recently raised over $350 million from K1 Investment Management. These are the details.
Cyara — a leading provider of automated customer experience (CX) assurance solutions — recently announced it has received more than $350 million from K1 Investment Management (K1), a leading investment firm focused on high-growth enterprise software companies. And K1’s investment and experience in business-to-business (B2B) SaaS will support Cyara’s accelerated growth, driving the expansion of the contact testing market.
Co-founded in Melbourne, Australia in 2006 by CEO Alok Kulkarni, CTO Luan Tran and Executive Director Bonny Malik, Cyara enables its customers to build and maintain their CX systems more efficiently with automated testing and monitoring. And through its SaaS-based Automated CX Assurance Platform, Cyara has forged an early lead in the contact center testing market. More than 250 leading high-profile global brands trust the Cyara CX Assurance Platform to monitor and manage the experience they provide their customers.
This investment is a critical step for Cyara to build upon its global leadership in the CX assurance market. And the investment will be used to accelerate product innovation, expand CX assurance into new emerging digital channels, fund strategic acquisitions of complementary technologies, and fuel geographic expansion.
KEY QUOTES:
“Cyara was founded with a vision to improve customer experience, and we’re delighted to have found a partner in K1 that is committed to the same values and wants to accelerate our growth aspirations. Organizations can succeed or fail based on their customer experience. More companies are realizing the business-critical nature of the work we do and we’re excited to have the firepower to grow and continue to attract the best people globally. We’re at the beginning of a very exciting new chapter.”
— Alok Kulkarni, CEO of Cyara
“Cyara provides mission critical software and is led by a visionary management team. We look forward to supporting Alok and the management team to execute on their growth strategy and further cement their position as the category leader in automated customer experience.”
— Roy Liao, Principal at K1
“NAB has worked collaboratively with Cyara for over 10 years. The visibility they provide, in terms of agent voice quality and connectivity issues, means we can diagnose problems before they occur. We can get ahead of any disruption to our customer experience and really support our front-line staff, wherever the agent or banker is based.”
— Alex Kocher, Head of Technology and Assisted Channels at National Australia Bank (NAB)
“We’re all about automation and making things easier for ourselves, which allows us to focus more attention on our customers. Cyara provides confidence that we’ve got a good service, and that when something does go wrong, we can react quickly to it before the customer knows there’s a problem. We don’t have to have someone monitoring the dashboard 24/7, we’ve got technology that’s doing that for us.”
— Phillip Moore, Operations and OSS Manager, Vodafone
