{"id":17234,"date":"2022-04-09T20:55:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T20:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/?p=17234"},"modified":"2022-05-19T21:15:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T21:15:16","slug":"umni-with-a-pitch-on-selection-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/umninews\/umni-with-a-pitch-on-selection-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Umni with a pitch on Selection Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Only 23 startups were selected to present at the Selection Day for season 4 of the Visa Innovation Program from 219 companies-applicants from 28 countries, and the team of Umni was among the selected. The online event was attended by nearly 100 participants &#8211; venture funds, banks, and other Visa partners in this program, as we as the selected to pitch participants. Although Umni was not selected to continue in the Visa Innovation Program, our team was honored to present our country and our software solution that empowers small and medium-sized businesses &#8211; a no-code platform for creating, managing and training AI chatbot for a website without technical knowledge and skills, along with applicants from Israel, Germany, Greece, Romania, Croatia, and other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Visa Innovation Program is Visa\u2019s partnership platform for fintech startups and entrepreneurs, and Visa and its vast network of global clients and partners, active in Europe. The Visa Innovation Program engages early-stage startup companies and Visa\u2019s global network of partners including neobanks, banks, merchants, governments, and other high-profile organizations to spur innovation within the financial and payment industry. The Program is run in partnership with Eleven Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund (Bulgaria), Crowdpolicy, open innovation integrator (Greece), and Hackquarters, an accelerator (Turkey).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re listening to a late-night radio show and chatting with a business at the same time, you&#8217;re not a weird person. In the last 2-3 years, chatting around midnight has become a habit for about 35% -45% of Bulgarians &#8211; and not only in our country. These are statistics from the chatbots of businesses from different industries, made on the chatbot platform of Umni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[66,67,57],"wf_post_folders":[261],"class_list":["post-17234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-umninews","tag-ai","tag-ai-chatbot","tag-chatbot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17234"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17242,"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17234\/revisions\/17242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17234"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=17234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}