Leading patent pending “emotion sensor” technology startup gets funding nod

Emojot Inc.May 9, 2016 12:30 PM

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Emojot Inc., a global pioneer in real-time emotion based client engagement has successfully closed its Series Seed funding round amounting to US$1 Million. The funding came from both Asian and US investors.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, USA, Emojot has offices in Australia, and Sri Lanka. The co-founders together amass five decades of combined global experience working in related domains as well as in successful technology and innovation startups, enterprises, government and research institutions.

“We are absolutely delighted to close this round so fast despite the current tough global conditions for tech investments,” said Shahani Markus, Founder, CEO and President. The funding will be used to secure IP and accelerate sales and marketing.

Manjula Dissanayake, Co-founder, COO and CTO added, “We see it as a strong testament to the timely innovation that the Emojot platform brings to global audience engagement needs.”

Emojot’s software based emotion sensors use emojis to easily capture emotions and the platform has the capability of instantly responding to even anonymously expressed sentiments. Emojot thereby enables a vista of powerful emotion-based marketing possibilities for businesses, providing them with hitherto unforeseen revenue generation opportunities.

Ideal for tracking and enhancing brand marketing and loyalty, emotion sensors revolutionize client engagement across a wide spectrum of scenarios. Examples include using emotion sensors for audience engagement during live TV shows, conferences and sports events, as well as on digital media. Emojot is also used by businesses for employee engagement and customer loyalty tracking, and by educational institutes for student engagement. Kiosk-mode emotion sensors are ideal at points-of-service such as restaurants, banks, and retail stores.

Emojot has the capability to leverage big data analytics and deliver insightful correlation of data from multiple social media channels to provide businesses with an enhanced view of trending social sentiments.

Emojot technology is patent-pending and the company has an interesting global patent portfolio in the areas of machine learning, image processing and data analytics. The company maintains an active research focus as it continues to innovate its platform features in collaboration with leading research institutions.

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Sydney, Australia, September 03, 2015 –(PR.com)– Emojot Inc., a client engagement platform for real-time analysis of customer perceptions participated at “The Events Show” which took place September 1-2 in Sydney, Australia. The event showcases current trends, products and services in the events industry. Among these Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Real Time Emotive Feedback were ranked as three of the most innovative technologies that are impacting the events industry worldwide.Emojis are the fastest growing language and Emojot is currently the only technology platform in the world that can instantly analyze streaming crowd perceptions to meaningfully respond to targeted client segments in real-time. It uses emojis to capture moment-by-moment sentiment in a language agnostic manner and has a built-in gratification process which results in a very rich and engaging user experience.

Emojot COO Manjula Dissanayake participated in a Tech Talk on the “Top 3 Event Technologies” where he explained how the company’s technology works and how it can be used during a live event to analyze, capture and report the emotions of an audience. “During the session I was able to provide examples of actual events where real time emotive feedback was used and demonstrate the impact it had on the delegates and outcomes of the event.”

“The Events Show” was organized by Meetings and Events Australia (MEA) a national, independent not for profit organisation dedicated to servicing the needs of the meetings and events industry and promoting it as an important high-yield sector of business travel and tourism.

About Emojot Inc.
Emojot is an innovation that started three years ago as a university research project at the leading Engineering University in Sri Lanka (also known as the “MIT of Sri Lanka). The founding team comprises the idea originator and research supervisor, the two research students and a specialist in this area. The team is located in three countries – Sri Lanka, Australia and USA and has managed to make impressive strides in a very short period of time. The product platform is completely built out and its endless possibilities are now driving a passionate marketing and sales effort. Emojot technology is patent-pending in the USA. Visit www.emojot.com

Mountain View, CA, July 09, 2015 –(PR.com)– Emojot will attend the RISE conference taking place in Hong Kong July 31 – August 1. RISE is the first Asian venue event being held by Web Summit, the “Davos for Geeks”, which in the span of four years has become Europe’s largest tech conference attracting over 20,000 attendees from around the world.

Emojot was selected out of thousands of applications submitted by exciting, disruptive, early-stage startups to participate in the ALPHA startup track. Over the two-day program, the world’s most cutting-edge startups, the most experienced investors and some of the most exciting speakers will network, learn and share their stories at the Hong Kong Convention Center.

Emojot is a client engagement platform for real-time analysis of customer perceptions. It allows one to easily aggregate and analyze in real-time, millions of contextually relevant perceptions on a single platform. Emojot is useful in enabling two-way conversations with targeted market segments across a multitude of scenarios ranging from events, reality TV shows, political campaigns, news programs, competitions and targeted marketing campaigns.

Emojot Founder/CEO Shahani Markus stated, “As Leonardo Da Vinci mentioned, ‘all our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions’. Emojot feeds ‘knowledge’ to customers as they perceive. We were selected for RISE because Emojot is currently the only technology platform in the world that can instantly analyze streaming crowd perceptions to meaningfully respond to targeted client segments in real-time. It uses emojis to capture moment-by-moment sentiment in a language agnostic manner and has a built-in gratification process which results in a very rich and engaging user experience.”

“We are very excited to showcase the Emojot product at RISE,” said COO Manjula Dissanayake.”The sheer scale of this conference means we will be able to get a sense of, and position our product in the Asia Pacific market.”

About Emojot
Emojot Inc. is an innovation that started three years ago as a university research project at the leading Engineering University in Sri Lanka (also known as the “MIT of Sri Lanka). The founding team comprises the idea originator and research supervisor, the two research students and a specialist in this area. The team is located in three countries – Sri Lanka, Australia and USA and has managed to make impressive strides in a very short period of time. The product platform is completely built out and its endless possibilities are now driving a passionate marketing and sales effort. Emojot technology is patent-pending in the USA. Visit www.emojot.com