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Bengaluru/Chennai, India, 18 September, 2015: Uniphore Technologies Inc, Chennai-based speech recognition solutions company, today announced opening of new office in Bengaluru. Uniphore will add more than 100 people in the next 15 months to their Bengaluru operations. The Bengaluru Office will accommodate teams dedicated to research & development, business development, consumer technology and professional services. Sanjeev Gadre, Chief Marketing Officer & Sr. VP-HR, Uniphore Technologies Inc, will be leading the Bengaluru team.
Commenting on the plans to expand footprint in India, Sanjeev Gadre, Chief Marketing Officer & Sr. VP-HR, Uniphore Technologies Inc said, “Coming to Bengaluru is a natural progression for a company that works on core technology. The people, the eco-system are very conducive to startup growth and young companies thrive in this Silicon Valley of the East.”
“Uniphore is aggressively responding to the needs of our customers. Our success in solving complex business challenges through speech recognition has enabled this expansion.” added Sanjeev.
Expanding across markets, Uniphore is building foothold In Singapore, Philippines and UAE, emerging as one of few companies dedicatedly working on Speech Technologies. “Recently we also appointed Douglas Peris as General Manager-Asia Pacific & Middle East so that we simultaneously work towards expanding our business in Asia Pacific and Middle East region,” said Ravi Saraogi, Co-Founder and COO, Uniphore Technologies Inc.
Uniphore Technologies Inc is headquartered in IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai and currently has offices in India, Philippines and U.A.E with 80 employees spread across all locations.
About Uniphore:
Uniphore Technologies Inc, is headquartered in IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai. Uniphore was incubated in IIT Chennai, India in 2008 and currently has offices in India, Philippines and U.A.E with 80 employees spread across all locations. Uniphore’s investors include Kris Gopalakrishnan, IDG Ventures India, India Angel Network, Yournest Fund, Stata Ventures. Uniphore has worked with over 70 enterprise customers and served over 4 million end users. Uniphore was recognized by Deloitte as a Technology Fast 500 company in Asia Pacific and Technology Fast 50 Company in India in 2014 and was also ranked as the 17th fastest growing technology company in India by Deloitte Fast 50 in 2012. Uniphore’s Co-Founder & CEO, Umesh Sachdev, received the “Exemplary Application of IT Award for 2014″ at the CII CONNECT 2014 Awards and awarded the Best Incubatee in the ICT Category at ISBA Awards in 2011.