Luzia, the artificial intelligence assistant in Spanish for WhatsApp, which has its largest community of users in Argentina, received a capital injection of US$10 million.
According to the company, among the main contributors stands out -mainly- the investment figure of the former international basketball star, the Spanish Pau Gasou, winner of the NBA ring on two occasions. The groups Khosla Ventures, A* Capital, Abstract Ventures, FJ Labs, Globo Ventures and other individual investors were also part of the investment strategy.
Luzia is considered one of the best free AI assistants in Spanish for WhatsApp and the fastest growing in the Spanish-speaking region, mainly in Argentina where it has the largest number of active users, with almost 2 million registrations.
Since its creation in March, it has already received three rounds of investment that reached a total of 13 million in total from investors such as Mike Santos (Technisys), Sean Ryan (Sean Investments LTD), and UNIR (Grupo Proeduca).
The company led by Álvaro Martínez Higes, Javier Andrés and Carlos Pérez reported that it will invest part of the investment in attracting talent to create the team of programmers and AI experts.
Source: Ambito
