Jordan’s Xina AI raises $ 1 million Seed round

Jordan’s Xina AI raises $ 1 million Seed round

Amman-based AI startup Xina AI has raised $1 million in a Seed round, led by Jordanian angel investors.

Founded in August 2020 by Sari Hweitat, Xina is an Arabic interactive voice assistant (IVA) and a chatbot that utilises AI and natural language understanding to automate customer support functions.

The new investment will support Xina’s expansion plans across the region, in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE, as well as strengthen its intellectual property development. 

Press release: 

Xina AI, an Arabic Conversational AI platform that automates customer support queries, announced today it has raised $1 million in the Seed round. The investment is to support expansion across the region and further strengthen Xina’s intellectual property development. 

After a successful pilot in Jordan, Xina plans to expand into the Saudi, UAE and Qatari market through their regional investors’ support as well as strategic alliances and partnerships. In order to boost its intellectual property system, Xina aims to improve the algorithm’s accuracy, increase the vernacular languages of Arabic from the Mena region with a particular focus on Levant, Egyptian, GCC dialects, and provide our APIs for the Arabic developers’ community to enable them to develop their own use cases.

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