Cresta
<p><strong><span class="legendSpanClass"><span class="xn-location">PALO ALTO</span></span> </strong>&#8212; <u><a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&;l=en&;o=4306354-1&;h=3547298440&;u=https%3A%2F%2Fcresta.com%2F&;a=Cresta" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Cresta</a></u>, an end-to-end generative AI platform for contact centers, has announced the closing of its <span class="xn-money">$125 million</span> Series D round of financing. The round was led by new investors World Innovation Lab (WiL) and QIA with participation from Accenture, EnvisionX Capital, LG Technology Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and Workday Ventures. The round also includes returning investors Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, J.P. Morgan, Sequoia Capital, and Tiger Global. This brings the company&#8217;s total funding to over <span class="xn-money">$270 million</span>.</p>
<p>There is increased pressure in the contact center space to drastically drive down costs while improving customer loyalty and top-line revenue. Cresta provides a unified platform for human and AI agents that transforms customer conversations and workflows at every level of the contact center. With Cresta, customers can uncover real-time insights and behavioral best practices in order to scale winning behaviors across their human agents, while automating mundane tasks using virtual agents.</p>
<p>&#8220;Cresta provides Fortune 500 companies like Intuit and Verizon with leading AI-powered technology that empowers them with clear competitive advantages,&#8221; said <b><span class="xn-person">Ping Wu</span>, Chief Executive Officer at Cresta</b>. &#8220;With this latest round of financing, we look forward to expanding our end-to-end AI platform to help dramatically reimagine how contact centers function and expand the use of human-centric AI to both augment human agents to make them more effective and save costs using human-like virtual agents.&#8221;</p>
<p>Cresta also announced several major milestones for the company:</p>
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<li>In the last two years, the company says it has nearly quadrupled its annual recurring revenue (ARR) and nearly doubled its customer base.</li>
<li>Cresta will be rapidly scaling R&;D, opening two new engineering hubs in <span class="xn-location">Romania</span> and <span class="xn-location">India</span> to add to existing offices in <span class="xn-location">Palo Alto</span>, <span class="xn-location">San Francisco</span>, <span class="xn-location">New York</span>, <span class="xn-location">Berlin</span>, and <span class="xn-location">Toronto</span>.</li>
<li>Cresta has appointed <span class="xn-person">Rob Theis</span>, General Partner and Chief Investment Officer at WiL, to the company&#8217;s board of directors.</li>
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<p>&#8220;Ping and the Cresta team consistently show that they have what it takes to succeed in the contact center AI space,&#8221; said <b><span class="xn-person">Rob Theis</span>, General Partner and Chief Investment Officer at WiL (World Innovation Lab)</b>. &#8220;We were impressed by Cresta&#8217;s track record with Fortune 500 companies and we view Cresta as the strongest end-to-end platform in the market. They are defining the next era of contact centers with best-in-class AI performance.&#8221;</p>

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