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In November 2013, the company received $ 500,000 seed investment from W Fund to further develop its contextual Q&A service and in December 2013 additional $ 2.4 million from WRF Capital and Voyager Capital investment funds. In May 2014, the company re-branded itself to ″AnswerDash″ reacting to
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In January 2015, Kevin Knoepp replaced Amy J. Ko as AnswerDash's CTO. AnswerDash service came on-line in May 2015. At the same time, after serving as a CEO for three years, Jake Wobbrock stepped down as the CEO. His performance was generally favored by
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technology to provide business owners with valuable analytics on their consumers' behavior that leads to further improvement of their e-commerce services. AnswerDash claims to reduce the need of traditional
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model by subscription, the service aims to eliminate the need for separate FAQs or ″help islands" offering contextual answers to end-users' questions. The service can be used on
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and the director of ACE Lab, Amy J. Ko, an associate professor the director of Code & Cognition Lab, and Parmit Chilana, a
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By the end of 2015, the company has "matured dramatically". After announcing the successful deployment of its software to
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technology that allows website and application owners to build the database of answers in a matter of several days.
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Steven Goldsmith (20 March 2015). "They answer the riddle of online user confusion".
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In June 2020, AnswerDash was acquired by Spokane, WA-based startup CloudEngage.
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customers' confusion over the unusual sequence of letters in the original name.
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The company was founded under name ″Qazzow″ in 2012 by three
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Computer software
Internet
Jacob O. Wobbrock
Seattle, Washington
United States
Total equity
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B2B
software company
customer service
e-commerce
Seattle, Washington
spin-off
Information school
University of Washington
software-as-a-service
machine learning
context-sensitive support answers
end-users
webpages
mobile applications

University of Washington
Jacob O. Wobbrock
professor
research assistant

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