
Silicon Valley-based Rulai delivers AI virtual customer assistants that generate revenue and save costs. The virtual assistants increase sales conversion rates and improve customer experience with quick, always-available, chat-and SMS-based, human-like conversational engagements. These smart agents, driven by Rulai Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Deep Learning dialog management technologies, enable brands to handle their growing external customer and internal employee interaction volume faster and more efficiently by answering questions, completing tasks and learning from live agent:customer interaction. Rulai Virtual Assistance complements live support with seamless escalation to human agents when desired or required for more complex issue resolution. Rulai solutions are developed and supported by a team of award-winning computer scientists and engineers who have published more than 400 research papers in related area and who are widely considered to be among the world’s leading experts in the field of machine learning.

Silicon Valley-based Rulai delivers AI virtual customer assistants that generate revenue and save costs. The virtual assistants increase sales conversion rates and improve customer experience with quick, always-available, chat-and SMS-based, human-like conversational engagements. These smart agents, driven by Rulai Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Deep Learning dialog management technologies, enable brands to handle their growing external customer and internal employee interaction volume faster and more efficiently by answering questions, completing tasks and learning from live agent:customer interaction. Rulai Virtual Assistance complements live support with seamless escalation to human agents when desired or required for more complex issue resolution. Rulai solutions are developed and supported by a team of award-winning computer scientists and engineers who have published more than 400 research papers in related area and who are widely considered to be among the world’s leading experts in the field of machine learning.
Product: Enterprise omnichannel conversational AI SaaS for customer and employee virtual assistants
Founding: Academically rooted team; co-founded by Yi Zhang and Roger Jin
Funding: Raised $6.5M in May 2017 (lead: GSR Ventures); total funding reported ~$14.5M
Tech focus: Natural Language Understanding, deep learning–based dialog management, low-code/no-code tooling
Customer service, contact centers, marketing, sales, logistics, and HR interactions (external customer and internal employee support).
Conversational AI; Enterprise SaaS
USD 6,500,000.00
Additional investors reported: Eight Roads Ventures China; Zhongwei Capital
“Backed by GSR Ventures, Eight Roads Ventures China, and Zhongwei Capital”