Telus Ventures invests in customer service AI

VANCOUVER, NEW YORK and TEL AVIV — Telus Ventures today announced it has invested in Tel Aviv-based TechSee, a developer of visual assistance artificial intelligence technology. TechSee says it has raised US$30 million in a Series C equity investment round co-led by Telus Ventures, OurCrowd and Salesforce Ventures, with participation from Scale Venture Partners and Planven Entrepreneur Ventures. Individual company investment amounts were not disclosed in the TechSee press release. In an email, a Telus spokesperson said the company’s investment is designed “to help advance the transformation of customer service by bringing more AI and AR (augmented reality) to the...