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Founder who built Snap’s AI launches a snappy new take on video chatbots


A deep learning scientist whose last startup was acquired by Snap to build its My AI chatbot has raised seed funding for his latest venture: a platform

eSelf, as the startup is known, is today coming out of stealth with $4.5 million in its coffers to enter the race to build live, interactive, and more realistic AI assistants. These agents can operate common apps — like Calendly, Salesforce, others — to schedule appointments, access collateral content, and to reference data just as a human assistant might do. Fast forward through a PhD, many research papers, and a lot of loans (now repaid), Bekker became a specialist in voice recognition, neural networks and deep learning.

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