$6 Million Funding for French AI Survey Firm Verso

In Paris, AI-based survey platform Verso has raised $6m in seed funding, which it will use to integrate further data sources into its system, develop agent interfaces, hire engineers and salespeople, and expand into the US market.

Founded by Lydia Bellahouel and Camille Epitalon, Verso provides a platform that automates study design, recruitment, conducts AI-moderated video interviews, analyses conversations in real time and uses them to create a queryable knowledge base structured around dynamically updated personas. The company says it aims next to build a 'consumer knowledge layer' accessible by businesses and AI agents, and incorporating qual and quant data, social listening and other sources.

The round was led by Angular Ventures, and joined by 100in, Kima Ventures, Olympe Capital, Sharpstone Capital, and a number of angel investors, as well as existing backer Hexa.

The company is on the web at www.askverso.ai .