📉 Big loss: Brands can loose 38% of customers because of poor marketing personalization efforts.

🤖 Meet Connectly: Thankfully, a startup was able to raise $17.25 million to help prevent this. Connectly uses AI to create campaigns and bots for automated conversations with current and potential customers.

💡 The geniuses behind it: The company was founded by Stefanos Loukakos (former head of Facebook Messenger) and Yandong Liu (former head of engineering of Uber’s machine learning team). Connectly is being used by a lot of other companies, like Mondelez,, Cadbury and Toys R Us among others.