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Whisbi is a Conversational Marketing platform that captures, qualifies and converts leads for enterprises, helping boost assisted and unassisted sales. Global companies in the auto, telecom and travel sectors, including Toyota, Verizon, Vodafone, A1 and BMW, use Whisbi to elevate their online buying experience, optimize conversion rates, generate pre-sales online and accelerate their sales cycle.

Whisbi was founded in 2008 and Alex Bisbe serves as the company’s CEO. In 2018, Whisbi raised €5M in an investment round led by Columbia Lake Partners. In April 2019, Kuan Foo, joined Whisbi as Product Director after previously leading product strategy and development at London-based Virgin Media. In his role, Foo will be responsible for developing the product strategy, with a particular focus on the enterprise market, and will report directly to Bisbe.

Awards

- In 2014, the head of Telesales house & Renewals of Telefónica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG, Regina Lange, was awarded the CAt Innovator Award for her project with Whisbi by the CCW Operator Management Circle. The award recognizes the most successful call center projects from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

- In 2015, Whisbi announced it had been awarded the Horizonte PYME for the Project Mobile Videoconference System for Hybrid E-Commerce by The Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO), within the State Plan of Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2013-2016. This award helped Whisbi to obtain the Seal of Excellence quality label that the European Commission gives to promising projects submitted under the SME instrument of Horizon 2020 achieving a score equal to or greater than 12/15 in the second phase of the program.

- At the 2015 eCommerce Awards, a prestigious international contest rewarding authentic e-commerce and retail innovation across different categories, Whisbi along with Vodafone was declared a gold winner in the Best Telecommunication eCommerce category.

- In 2018, Whisbi won the Best Mobile Innovation for Commerce award at the GSMA Global Mobile Awards.

^- In 2019, the company was shortlisted in the same category for the second time.

Clients

In 2017, BMW in Denmark launched its first ever BMW Live powered by Whisbi on their online showroom for visitors. The first live video was a detailed review of the new BMW 5 Series Touring and the BMW 4 Series Gran Coupé facelift.

Three UK became the first telecom brand in the UK to partner with Whisbi in 2018 to provide a differentiating online experience to customers. As the fastest growing network operator in the UK, Three's main drive is to educate people online earlier on in the sales process to ensure that they receive all the necessary information to make an informed purchase decision.

56% of Toyota’s online leads booked test drives through the Whisbi One-to-One solution. On an average, Whisbi delivers more than 200 test drives to Toyota every month. 30% of Vodafone’s online customer conversations were managed through Whisbi’s Conversational Marketing platform and the conversion to lead was 2.6%, or approximately 400,000 leads per month.

Whisbi is rated as the best conversational marketing solution for enterprises on G2 Crowd and Capterra.

References

[1] Whisbi Secures €5M Investment Round Led by Columbia Lake Partners to Accelerate High-Growth Plan and Continue to Drive Innovation in Conversational Sales [Press Release]. Retrieved from http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/whisbi-secures-eur5m-investment-round-led-by-columbia-lake-partners-to-accelerate-high-growth-plan-and-continue-to-drive-innovation-in-conversational-sales-1104028.htm

[2] Whisbi Hires Former Virgin Media Product Manager to Lead the Product Team [Press Release]. Retrieved from http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/whisbi-hires-former-virgin-media-product-manager-to-lead-the-product-team-1191615.htm

[3] Kerekes, Zsofia. (2014, March 4). Telco Innovation Award for Whisbi and Telefonica. Retrieved from https://www.whisbi.com/blog/telco-innovation-award/

[4] Whisbi awarded with the Horizonte PYME. (2015, December 12). Retrieved from https://www.whisbi.com/blog/whisbi-awarded-with-the-horizonte-pyme/

[5] Chizhova, Nadezhda. (2015, October 5). Whisbi + Vodafone win best Telecommunications innovations at eCommerce Awards for Excellence. Retrieved from https://www.whisbi.com/blog/whisbi-vodafone-win-best-telecommunications-innovations-at-ecommerce-awards-for-excellence/

[6]  Dec 12, 2015. Whisbi Wins the GLOMO Award at the Mobile World Congress 2018. Retrieved from http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/whisbi-wins-the-glomo-award-at-the-mobile-world-congress-2018-942720.htm

[7] Whisbi Is Shortlisted for the Global Mobile Award 2019 by GSMA [Press Release]. Retrieved from http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/whisbi-is-shortlisted-for-the-global-mobile-award-2019-by-gsma-1131300.htm

[8] BMW Launches BMW Live Powered by the World's Number 1 Conversational Commerce Solution for Enterprises [Press Release]. Retrieved from http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/bmw-launches-bmw-live-powered-by-the-worlds-number-1-conversational-commerce-solution-for-enterprises-881621.htm

'[9]' Three - UK's Best-Loved Brand Is Partnering with Whisbi to Make Digital Interactions with Customers More Human [Press Release]. Retrieved from http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/three-uks-best-loved-brand-is-partnering-with-whisbi-to-make-digital-interactions-with-customers-more-human-1041382.htm

[10] About Three. Retrieved from http://www.three.co.uk/About_Three

[11] How Toyota created a lead-gen machine through Whisbi. Retrieved from https://meet.whisbi.com/toyota-case-study-2019/

[12] How Vodafone’s Virtual Store increased sales by 25%. Retrieved from https://www.whisbi.com/case/vodafone/

[13] Compare Conversational Marketing Software. Retrieved from https://www.g2.com/categories/conversational-marketing

[14] Retrieved from https://www.capterra.com/p/131994/Whisbi/