Last deal

$4.88M
Local Amount - AUD 7M

Amount

Seed

Stage

16.05.2022

Date

3

all rounds

$5.96M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
Curious Thing is a leading provider of voice AI assistants for businesses.

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Also Known As

CuriousThing.io

founded date

22.07.2018

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Seed

IPO status

Private

Description

Their conversational AI technology automates inbound and outbound customer engagement, from customer checking in to feedback collection, across various industries. They also offer a platform for human resource teams to efficiently shortlist candidates and remove bias from hiring decisions. Their multilingual voice AI assistants have successfully automated millions of business-customer conversations and support rapid deployment across multiple use cases.
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Sam Zheng
Sam Zheng

Sam Zheng

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Curious Thing
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2

Sam Zheng

David McKeague
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David McKeague

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David McKeague

Dr Han Xu
Dr Han Xu

Dr Han Xu

I hold a PhD in Machine Learning. My research focuses on Natural Language Processing and Social Network Analysis. I specialise in knowledge discovery from unstructured texts. I'm a seasoned data scientist and technologist. I was a founding member of OwnersAdvisory, Macquarie Bank's cutting-edge robo advisor platform. I was the Head of Machine Learning at FlamingoAI (ASX: FGO), built and led our category-defining Unsupervised Machine Learning capabilities. I'm the Co-Founder & CTO at Curious Thing, building out the next frontier of conversational AI powered by computational curiosity.

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Curious Thing

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Dr Han Xu

Employee Profiles
5
Vanvisa Brown

Vanvisa Brown

Head of Marketing

Sam Zheng

Sam Zheng

Co-founder/CEO

David McKeague

David McKeague

Co-founder/Chief Strategist

Dr Han Xu

Dr Han Xu

Co-founder/CTO

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