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Whisbi, the leading Conversational Sales platform for enterprises that helps brands sell more online, announced that Kuan Foo has joined the company to lead the product team as Product Director. Kuan will be responsible for developing the product strategy, with a particular focus on the enterprise market and will report directly to the CEO, Alex Bisbe.

Whisbi, the world's leading Conversational Sales and Marketing Platform for Enterprises, is nominated for the Best Mobile Innovation for Commerce in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Category alongside key players such as Huawei and Safaricom. This is the second time Whisbi has been shortlisted in this category and is the proud winner of last years award.

Whisbi, the conversational sales & marketing platform for enterprises, announces today that it has raised €5M. The investment round was led by Columbia Lake Partners, a fund backed by a knowledgeable group of investors, including partners at Bessemer Venture Partners, and also supported by existing investors Active Venture Partners and Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI). The round is a combination of equity and debt financing.

Three UK is the first Telecom brand in the UK to have partnered with Whisbi to provide a differentiating online customer experience to their customers.

This year marks Whisbi's 10 year anniversary. Founded in Barcelona by Alex Bisbe (CEO) & Jose Luis Cantero (CTO), the SaaS company quickly became a global leader in conversational sales, with offices in Barcelona, Madrid & San Francisco. The company was created with one mission in mind: helping B2C companies to connect with customers online and increase their digital sales revenue.

The GSMA announced Whisbi as the winner of Best Mobile Innovation for Commerce award at the GSMA Global Mobile Awards 2018 yesterday morning, presented at the Innovation city at Mobile World Congress.

The event recognizes big business innovation and the teams behind it with winners picked by an independent panel of academics, practitioners, and pioneers. SKODA Live Tour was nominated for best New Proposition, and was up against 37 other innovations from the likes of Talk Talk, Sky, HSBC, E-on and Jaguar Land Rover. It was one of six propositions awarded on the night.

On Tuesday the 26th of September at 8.00 pm CET, BMW in Denmark launched its very first BMW LIVE powered by Whisbi on their website: an online showroom for their website visitors. The first live video was a detailed review of the new BMW 5 Series Touring and the BMW 4 Series Gran Coupé facelift.