New York-based messaging company Troops.ai has secured $12 million in Series B funding, according to company database Crunchbase, topping the city’s recent funding headlines. The cash infusion was announced April 23 and financed by Aspect Ventures.
According to its Crunchbase profile, "Troops is a slackbot for sales team. Troops allows users to configures salesforce reports, communicate deal wins and pull salesforce data for all standard and custom objects through Slack."
The four-year-old startup has raised three previous funding rounds, including a $7.6 million round in 2018.
The round brings total funding raised by New York companies in artificial intelligence over the past month to $413 million, an increase of $359 million from the month before. The local artificial intelligence industry has produced 144 funding rounds over the past year, yielding a total of $1.6 billion in venture funding.
In other local funding news, security company Kangaroo announced a $10 million Series A funding round on April 18.
According to Crunchbase, "Kangaroo is an electronics company that provides simple home security systems. It offers flexible, app-enabled and affordable security systems. Kangaroo was founded in 2018."
The company also raised a $4.3 million seed round in 2018.
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