Dexter, once pitched as an “IFTTT on steroids,” is morphing into a chatbot builder, with $2.3 million in new funding from Rakuten Ventures, Social Starts, and Betaworks.
Launched out of Betaworks’ New York incubator in October 2015, Dexter is now “a full-blown bot building platform,” according to founder Daniel Ilkovich. The company’s original data automation service has ceased to exist, but Ilkovich declined to describe the change as a “pivot” — it’s a “narrowing of focus,” he said.
[aditude-amp id="flyingcarpet" targeting='{"env":"staging","page_type":"article","post_id":2033013,"post_type":"story","post_chan":"none","tags":null,"ai":false,"category":"none","all_categories":"bots,business,entrepreneur,","session":"A"}']You won’t need programming skills to build, host, and monitor a chatbot on Dexter’s service when it launches next month, according to Ilkovich: “If you can write, you can build a bot on Dexter.”
Operating under the radar, Dexter has already publicly launched a number of bots, including this one inspired by Drake and another for Father’s Day.
VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital town square for technical decision-makers to gain knowledge about transformative enterprise technology and transact. Learn More