{"id":74402,"date":"2021-07-12T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.munich-startup.net\/?p=74402"},"modified":"2021-07-12T14:05:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T12:05:33","slug":"askbrian-closes-pre-seed-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.munich-startup.net\/en\/74402\/askbrian-closes-pre-seed-round\/","title":{"rendered":"AI assistant Askbrian closes pre-seed round"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Fostec Ventures is leading Askbrian&#039;s financing round. Existing investors include the Flink founders, Zenloop,<br>Flaconi and Kartenmacherei are also investing. Carcharodon Capital, Coreventures and Whistler are new investors in the <a href=\"\/en\/startups\/askbrian-gmbh\/\">Pursue<\/a>The funding is intended to support the growth of the digital assistant. The startup was founded in 2018 by management consultant Pavol Sikula, with Matthias Ruppel as co-founder and CTO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&quot;We were impressed by Brian&#039;s range of features, coupled with its ease of use via email or MS Teams. Brian not only consolidates multiple data research databases, but also helps business professionals become more efficient in their everyday routine tasks,&quot;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>says <strong>Markus Fost<\/strong>, Managing Director of Fostec Ventures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Askbrian has more than 200 corporate customers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Brian, the assistant, takes on recurring tasks for management consultants and other user groups. 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