Connectly.ai is a conversational commerce company focused on simplifying how SMBs transform customer messages into revenue. Our tools centralize customer communications - across WhatsApp, SMS, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram - removing the friction from message-driven sales and enabling businesses to treat their customers like people, not tickets.
We believe businesses need to adopt a message-first mindset to succeed. Our vision is to create the AI-powered infrastructure of the future to make this as easy as possible; enabling businesses to operate the full flywheel - marketing, sales, transactions, customer experience -all within the customer’s thread of choice.
Connectly was founded by Stefanos Loukakos (ex-Director, Head of Messenger & Blockchain at Facebook) and Yandong Liu (ex-CTO of Strava and Engineer at Uber) who met through a friend in the founder community. With a shared passion for messaging - between Stefanos’ role at Facebook and Yandong’s role leading a highly successful SMS initiative to onboard Uber drivers - they launched Connectly to help businesses make the most of their customer messages in an increasingly complex ecosystem.
Total Funding: $4M
Funding Stage: Seed
Business Stage: Scaling Up
Market: B2B
Company Size: 1 to 25
Founded: 2020
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Stefanos Loukakos
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Yandong Liu
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