While building a community of over 4,000 entrepreneurs in 2019 through Founders Circle, a mentoring and support group, it became clear to Utkarsh Roy that there was a need for a more effective way for professionals to connect with each other.
At Founders Circle’s events in India and the United States, Roy realised that decision makers and business owners were looking for better ways to discover like-minded people and connect with them in a more direct and reliable way.
People often asked Roy if he could connect them to X or Y at some firm or the other, but it was not easy to do so.
“Thus, crucial business relationships–such as those with potential vendors, investors, distributors, and clients–that could boost one’s business, often remained uninitiated,” he says.
These uninitiated conversations and lost networking opportunities prompted Roy to come up with a solution for efficient engagement with professional/business connections.
Founded in 2020, Introbot is an AI-powered WhatsAppplatform that helps attendees access, engage, and build professional relationships with relevant decision-makers at events and business communities.
Introbot is an invite-only discovery and connection platform primarily targeting events and closed-door communities.
The Introbot platform is designed to facilitate connections among founders, professionals, and investors. It features a WhatsApp AI chatbot for attendees; users can ask the chatbox to find specific individuals and it curates recommendations, allowing direct connections within WhatsApp.
For event organisers, Introbot offers a web dashboard with admin controls and analytics.
Main users of the platform include event attendees, sponsors, speakers, organisers, and community admins.
Roy believes traditional networking through email and LinkedIn has limitations such as low open rates and spam and is not the most efficient method for business owners and founders to discover and connect with relevant peers.
“Meeting new individuals often opens doors to various opportunities, like........