DevRev Valued at $1.1 Billion With $100.8 Million Series A

<p><strong>PALO ALTO<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; DevRev&comma; an AI-native platform that unifies customer support and product development&comma; has completed a &dollar;100&period;8 million Series A funding round&comma; bringing its valuation to &dollar;1&period;15 billion&period; This funding milestone includes investments accumulated over the past three years&comma; culminating in this round&period; The company is backed by prominent investors such as Khosla Ventures&comma; Mayfield Fund&comma; and Dheeraj Pandey’s family office&comma; Param Hansa Values&comma; in addition to several accelerators and family offices of tech CEOs and VCs&period; DevRev is committed to growing its investor base continuously via a novel approach of smaller yet frequent raises&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>Platform vs&period; Experiments<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>AI in the enterprise has seen good experimentation and novel prototypes in engineering labs around the world&comma; thanks to the advent of large language models &lpar;LLMs&rpar; and conversational surfaces&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>DevRev believes that operationalizing GenAI in companies will require a robust knowledge graph&comma; one in which data from legacy systems is continuously being fed in real-time to an interlinked network of customer&comma; product&comma; employee&comma; work&comma; user&comma; and session records that capture complex business relationships&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>DevRev’s knowledge graph is the data layer powering its AgentOS platform and apps&period; This creates three foundational layers&colon; &lpar;a&rpar; airdropped data from legacy systems into a highly extensible customer and product graph&comma; &lpar;b&rpar; which then powers search&comma; analytics&comma; and workflows&comma; &lpar;c&rpar; on top of which rest the AI-native apps for customer service&comma; product management&comma; and software engineering&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Design will play a key role in building trust with end users&comma; who have inevitably begun to witness the AI hype cycle of broken prototypes and bespoke one-off GPT wrappers that are inherently unmaintainable and not secure&comma;” said Dheeraj Pandey&comma; CEO of DevRev&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Trust is built by delivering fast&comma; accurate&comma; and personalized AI solutions&period; In just under four years we’ve built an amazing multi-region platform to deliver enterprise-level security&comma; combined with an experience that is intuitive to use&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>Customer Traction and Market Impact<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>DevRev&&num;8217&semi;s agents transform experiences for customer service staff&comma; support engineers&comma; product managers&comma; and software developers by analyzing structured and unstructured data like customer conversations&comma; searches&comma; and session analytics&period; This happens via lightweight surfaces such as search bars on websites&comma; with just 7 lines of code&period; DevRev’s simplified stack can co-exist or replace solutions such as Zendesk&comma; Salesforce Service Cloud&comma; Intercom&comma; and Atlassian Jira&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After little over a year in the market&comma; the DevRev platform is already trusted by over a thousand customers&comma; including SaaS unicorns such as Uniphore&comma; the largest AI chip designers who are tracking product and customer information – which otherwise would not be traditionally captured in legacy sales or support CRMs – and one of the world’s Top 5 consumer banks with a hundred million users who are expecting one-shot customer support experience&period; They all expect the new AI interface to be conversational&comma; mobile-first&comma; and lightning-fast to deploy and use&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;DevRev&&num;8217&semi;s AgentOS platform has significantly improved our approach to customer service and internal collaboration&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Vishnu Ravikumar&comma; vice president of strategy and planning at Velocity Global&comma; a SaaS HR platform for globally distributed teams&period; &&num;8220&semi;By consolidating our operations into a single&comma; comprehensive system&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;ve enhanced our ability to deliver quality customer experiences in today&&num;8217&semi;s complex business environment&period; The platform&&num;8217&semi;s integration of multiple functions is fostering better teamwork across departments and will improve our overall efficiency&period; We&&num;8217&semi;re optimistic about how DevRev is positioning us to meet customer expectations more effectively&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>AI and the Enterprise Knowledge Graph<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the past&comma; customer bots were rule-based and fragile&comma; customer support CRMs were ticket-centric &lpar;and not conversational&rpar;&comma; and product development software was code- and project-centric &lpar;and not customer and product&rpar;&period; DevRev’s model-based agents are powered by custom vector embeddings that cluster&comma; classify&comma; deflect&comma; deduplicate&comma; route&comma; attribute and generate omnichannel conversations&comma; tickets&comma; incidents&comma; issues&comma; articles&comma; recordings&comma; code commits&comma; release notes&comma; and more&period; Without product and customer labeling&comma; it is almost impossible to implement AI that is meaningful and reductive&comma; hence the need for an enterprise knowledge graph&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;AI will transform enterprise customer support and product teams&comma; changing the way companies do business globally&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Vinod Khosla&comma; founder of Khosla Ventures&period; &&num;8220&semi;Having backed Dheeraj at Nutanix&comma; and now at DevRev&comma; he is one of the few people in the industry who can leverage foundation models and weave them together with enterprise architectures&comma; customer collaboration&comma; and monetization&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We take a people-first approach to investing and we’re particularly proud to back DevRev because Dheeraj and Manoj understand that company building is a team sport&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s also a strong example of the cognition-as-a-service &lpar;CaaS&rpar; era of technology Mayfield is bullish on&comma;” said Navin Chaddha&comma; managing partner at Mayfield Fund&period; &&num;8220&semi;DevRev is creating a high-speed highway between the customer and the developer&period; The layering of an AI teammate experience is an exciting next step that will allow developers&comma; product managers&comma; and customer support engineers to collaborate in real-time with end users&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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