Aware Raises $12m Series B To Provide Controls, Governance And Insights Into Workplace Collaboration And Communication Tools
Aware, the only comprehensive AI solution for governance, risk, compliance (GRC) and insights for leading digital collaboration technologies, announced a $12 million Series B equity investment led by New York-based Spring Mountain Capital with participation from Blue Heron Capital and Allos Ventures.
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Aware offers a unified view across many of the tools now considered vital to remote work, such as Slack, Microsoft Teams and Workplace from Facebook. Aware’s platform provides AI-enhanced controls and governance capabilities for the nuanced conversation data set that lives within these communication tools. Additionally, Aware continuously enriches the conversation data that flow through the tools with proprietary natural language processing (NLP) and AI models, providing organizational value and insights such as ongoing employee sentiment and commonly discussed themes.
Jeff Schumann, CEO and Co-Founder of Aware said: “We’re excited to partner with investors who truly understand the opportunity that lives within this unique space. The conversation data found in technologies like Slack and Teams is different than anything IT teams have faced before – they include comments, replies, emojis, @ mentions, images, attachments and so much more. Legacy systems just aren’t set up to properly handle this unstructured data set. With the use of these tools only increasing due to an influx in remote work, we see an opportunity to not only provide the necessary controls specific to this data set, but also leverage our proprietary AI to derive a wealth of knowledge and insights that leaders will find invaluable as they embrace a new way of working.”
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The investment will accelerate the company’s go-to-market efforts, increase partnerships, grow Aware’s integration ecosystem and support ongoing product research and development.
Jamie Weston, Managing Director of Spring Mountain Capital said:
“Aware is uniquely positioned to tackle today’s remote-work-first world with the team’s extensive background in understanding digital conversations. They solve an immediate risk and compliance need that many companies didn’t realize they had until the pandemic hit. Meanwhile, Aware continues to push the envelope by using this data set and technology to add immense value back to the organization. We’re thrilled to partner with Jeff and team on this next stage of the company.”
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