Watch out, Silicon Valley! San Diego is making a bid to become the new center of technology through innovation, creation, and disruption. David Tal and Verse.io are leading the charge! Raising $17 million over three rounds, Verse.io is well placed to create, innovate, and disrupt traditional B2C platforms.

Similar to many tech leaders, David was just looking for a solution to a problem. After graduating from college, he tried the movies and ultimately made his way to San Diego where the real estate business beckoned through an uncle. Then came a recession. He built a team, bought leads, sent his team to training, and still couldn’t figure out why his agents weren’t getting return calls. When text messaging yielded an almost 100% response, David realized he was onto something.

Starting a company called Agentology with his brother who specialized in marketing, they focused on how to better communicate with and engage clients through engagement and qualification at the client’s pace.

Agentology rebranded itself to Verse.io (helping businesses converse with prospects) and implemented chat to deepen the customer’s engagement and qualification process while providing for immediate human contact. Verse.io is now tackling new industries such as mortgage companies, solar, insurance, and education to bring tech efficiencies that convert prospects to customers.

While this may sound mainstream, Verse.io’s differentiator is conversation automation campaigns where a two-way conversation can start immediately with a click and the conversation can be customized for each client’s prospect engagement.

If customer engagement is your focus and your challenge, you’ll appreciate what David Tal has to say about the future of automated contact and conversation.

Learn more about David Tal and Verse.io

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