Business Communications Innovator LeapXpert Locks in $22 Million in Series A+ Funding

Business Communications Innovator LeapXpert Locks in $22 Million in Series A+ Funding
  • LeapXpert, a specialist in compliant business communications, has locked in $22 million in Series A+ funding.
  • The round was led by Rockefeller Asset Management via its Technology Ventures Group.
  • LeapXpert most recently demoed its technology at FinovateFall 2022 in New York.

Business communications company LeapXpert has secured $22 million in Series A+ funding. The round was led by Rockefeller Asset Management via its Technology Ventures Group. Also participating in the round were Uncorrelated Ventures, and the Partnership Fund for New York City. Existing investors and a new strategic investor were also involved in the funding.

“Today marks a significant milestone for LeapXpert’s growth journey,” LeapXpert Dima Gutzeit founder and CEO said. “Our goal is to set the global standard for responsible and flexible employee-customer communication, and with this funding, we are one step closer to achieving our vision.”

This week’s investment takes LeapXpert’s total capital to $36 million, according to Crunchbase. LeapXpert will use the funding to help meet increasing demand for its services from financial institutions. The investment will also fuel its entry into other industry verticals and build out its partnership network. Additionally, the investment will support continued development of its LeapXpert Communications Platform, and launch a new public SaaS solution.

The platform helps balance the ability of customers to use popular communication tools with compliance and security requirements. LeapXpert has found that messaging and communications apps are “almost universally used” by businesses in financial services. Yet the compliance technology to regulate them has yet to catch up. With LeapXpert’s technology, companies can offer employees a single corporate identity for business communications through these popular, already widely used options.

“Of course, customers should be able to use iMessage, WhatsApp, SMS, Signal, Telegram, WeChat, or whatever to interact with their service providers,” Uncorrelated Ventures Founder and General Partner Salil Deshpande said. “And financial institutions and other service providers should be able to communicate with those customers using Slack, Teams, or whatever else, while still respecting security, compliance, regulations, and governance. LeapXpert is really the only solution.”

LeapXpert most recently demoed its technology at FinovateFall 2022. At the conference, the New York-based company showed how its app for Microsoft Teams creates a comprehensive digital record of company conversations across all text and instant messaging communications channels.


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FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: LeapXpert

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: LeapXpert

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 14-16, 2020. Register today and save your spot.

The LeapXpert messaging B2C platform monitors, records and owns all communication activities between your employees, clients and your organization, making the invisible visible.

Features

  • Company employees can send text, voice and files to clients through messenger apps like WhatsApp, WeChat, Telegram, Line and others
  • Messages to both one-on-one and group chats
  • It’s compliant, integrated and secure

Why It’s Great
LeapXpert Federated Messaging Orchestration Platform is a separate business messaging platform, which elevates messaging to a formal business communication channel similar to calling or emailing.

Presenters

Dima Gutzeit, CEO & Founder
Gutzeit is a visionary technologist who, as CTO at a HK based communication provider, oversaw 250 technologists to build a global CPaaS platform with 24 points of presence around the world and millions of endpoints.
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Avi Pardo, COO & Co-Founder
Pardo is a proven business development leader in fast growing technology companies and has sold and deployed millions of UC/Collaboration seats with Microsoft, Google, Cisco, DialPad, RingCentral, ShoreTe, etc.
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This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: LeapXpert

FinovateEurope Sneak Peek: LeapXpert

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateEurope on February 12 through 14, 2019 in London, U.K. Register today and save your spot.

LeapXpert provides an omnichannel and integrated platform for efficient yet compliant communication between businesses and clients.

Features

  • Data ownership and compliance
  • Security and privacy
  • User experience and relevance in the modern world of communication

Why it’s great
LeapXpert is making the invisible communications between company employees and customers, visible.

Presenter

Dima Gutzeit, Founder
Gutzeit has 18 years of experience building planet-scale communication platforms across the globe. He developed and launched mobile messaging products with millions of monthly active users.
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This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.