Umni turns 1 year – Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday, Umni!
Today we can share our story for the past 1 year as a time that brought us great clients, virtual assistant projects that truly help the business, and better recognition of our Umni brand.
We led lectures, participated in panels and conferences, talk to media – TV, radio and press, about the benefits the virtual assistant bring to business, employees and customers, and we believe that chatbots are used more and more locally and discussed as a business tool because of our efforts to spread the word.
We are proud to be part of the portfolio our first investors, the Canadian fund Loyal VC.
Behind the Umni success for the past 1 year stays not only the hard work of our small Umni team – we are a family, but also the help and support of our friends: the directors and mentors of The Founder Institute accelerator, our clients who trusted us, the people, who believed in us and our ideas, and recommended Umni as a partner. We are so grateful to you, thank you!
Happy birthday, Umni!
Umni in the Focus of the Top LA Podcast Women in Tech for Valentine’s day
Last Autumn the popular tech podcast featuring Women in Tech took interview with our CEO Elitza Stoilova about the Umni journey from an idea to a successful business.
The #womenintech Podcast is hosted by WeAreLATech’s Espree Devora and features inspiring Women in Tech from Engineers, Female Founders, Investors, UX and UI Designers, Journalists all sharing their story how they got to where they are today. The purpose of the show is for every listener to walk away feeling ‘If She Can Do It So Can I’. It is also the 1st podcast focused on LA startups ranked #2 in all of iTunes “New & Noteworthy”. Although the interview about Elitza and Umni was published now – several customers and successful projects, and one investment later, it is about the challenges a startup founder goes through and about the vision and the mindset to succeed that makes you different.
Umni at the BW Startup Summit
On February 1st 2019 Umni participated with its own booth at the BW Start-up Summit in Stuttgart, Germany, as a member of the delegation of countries neighboring Danube river.
Our company was invited by The Accelerator, a European program for developing entrepreneurship in Danube river countries.
The 2nd start-up summit was organized by the Ministry of Economy of Baden-Wurttemberg and supported by L-Bank, and it gathered close to 400 startups from Germany and other countries, angel investors, VC funds, accelerators and other organizations and businesses interested in the startup ecosystem development.
On the air of radio “Varna” (BNR) – “Yes” for the virtual assistants
Umni began the year with several media coverage. Today our CEO Elitza Stoilova was in the studio of the Radio “Varna” for an interview with the tech journalist Dorotea Spasova about virtual assistants, the benefit for the business, the customers and the staff.
New Functionalities (Modules) Released in UmniBot
This summer the Umni team worked on enhancing the variety of offered functionalities for our chatbots.
We developed and can now offer in our chatbots the implementation of such necessary for the business modules as a reservation module (with available API of a reservation system), a search in a database, contact with the staff (live-chat with notification of the business) and others. In addition, we now offer useful modules as pre-recorded voice answers, a secret section – a section with limited access to information, weather forecast, currency calculator, zodiac forecast (currently English only), “your luck for the day” and others.