Engineer.ai lower the cost of creating an app for businesses. Having a fast, personalised app is key to a company’s online presence and marketing ability.
In 2017, the total amount of app downloads hit 197 billion which is expected to surge to 352 billion by 2021, according to Statista. Here, Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Engineer.ai explains how he wants to bring the cost of creating an app down for businesses and make it easier than ever to do so. Tell us more about the company.
What’s your background and what is the company’s vision? We founded Engineer.ai in 2016, and the ‘Builder’ platform will be launching in June this year. The company was founded in partnership with my university friend Saurabh Dhoot. With the Builder platform we’re aiming to bring down the price of building an app; whether that’s on mobile, web, e-commerce or Internet of Things (IoT). We want to create a product that keeps people coming back and allows them to continue building when their needs change. Individual sales meetings was a priority for Engineer.ai. Engineer.ai license everybody to manufacture a thought without figuring out how to code.
Engineer.ai AI-based software that helps people build their own software. Engineer.ai, maker of an artificial intelligence-based software that helps people build their own software without coding knowledge, has raised $29.5 million in one of Europe's largest series A investments.
The company, which has headquarters in Los Angeles and London, said the funding round was led by Lakestar and Jungle Ventures with participation from Softbank's DeepCore. Launched in June, Engineer.ai said its Builder system is an “AI-powered software assembly line” that breaks software development projects into "small building blocks of re-usable features" that can create “bespoke” software at a fraction of price and time of traditional development. The company said it is aiming at everyone from "the solopreneur" to small and medium businesses. Its customers, who have used Builder to develop e-commerce platforms and social apps, include the BBC, Virgin Group and the San Francisco Giants. Engineer.ai bridge the technical gap for clients.
LOS ANGELES and LONDON, Jan. 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Engineer.ai, the human-assisted AI that empowers everyone to build and operate bespoke software, announced today at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, that it has entered a strategic partnership with DigitalOcean, the cloud of choice for developers creating modern applications, globally.
The partnership provides small & medium businesses and developers a completely scalable way to create bespoke / made-to-order software products. Engineer.ai's Builder platform is an AI-powered Software Assembly line that breaks projects into small building blocks of re-usable features customized by elastic human capacity (professional software engineers) from across the world. The result is high-quality custom software at a fraction of the price and time of traditional development.
Fabricate an idea without figuring out how to code - Engineer.ai. Engineer.ai, a human-assisted artificial intelligence platform, said it has secured $29.5 million (about Rs 210 crore) funding led by Lakestar and Jungle Ventures with participation from Softbank's DeepCore.
The funds will be utilised for strengthening engineering operations and customer acquisition, Sachin Dev Duggal, Founder and Chief Wizard of Engineer.ai, said. Engineer.ai was created so that everyone can build an idea without learning to code, he added. "The capital comes at a time of rapid growth and will propel the platform into the mainstream, allowing 'Builder' to open the door for entire categories of companies that could not consider it before," he said.
Launched in June 2018, Engineer.ai has already attracted hundreds of customers across many geographies. Its 'Builder' solution allows people -- even those without technical skills -- to get customised apps built for Android, iOS and other platforms. AI Engineers support evolving research projects.
Ask the Expert: Sachin Dev Duggal, Chief Wizard at Engineer.ai Joining us for this week’s Ask the Expert is Sachin Dev Duggal, Chief Wizard at Engineer.ai.
Sachin is an innovation-driven entrepreneur who aims to build technology that simplifies users’ lives. In particular, Sachin specialises in finance, distributed systems, software engineering, and computational maths, and more. In this podcast, Sachin begins by outlining why some companies are hesitant to action their app development, particularly in light of the boom of businesses doing so. Then, he delves into why he believes there is such a demand for businesses to have apps today. “As your customer is changing how they buy, it’s imperative that you change how you sell” Sachin Dev Duggal Sachin Dev Duggal.