Taiwan roundup: Canner raises US$3.5M pre-Series A, Cooby nets US$2.9M funding

Data mesh solution startup Canner

Data mesh solution provider Canner has raised a total of US$3.5 million in a pre-Series A funding round, led by Taiwania Capital. Hive Ventures and SparkLabs Taipei also joined.

Canner will use this funding to accelerate product development, expand local and international marketing efforts, and grow its teams.

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Founded in 2018, Canner aims to empower businesses to convert data into business value by connecting data silos and transforming business-facing datasets into application-ready dataset APIs with a universal data access interface. With Canner’s data mesh technology, users can work with datasets without moving or duplicating data between data sources.

This way, it simplifies building next-generation data applications on top of cloud data warehouses through a universal layer for APIs, access control, data literacy, and optimisation from diverse data silos.

Canner’s data mesh solution can be quickly installed in any cloud – public, private, hybrid and otherwise. It provides multi-format output optimisation for data applications and multi-layer data access control and authorisation.

Conversation management firm Cooby

Cooby, a conversation management tool, has raised US$2.9 million, led by Sequoia India’s Surge and Pear VC.

The Cooby tool helps businesses streamline engagement and individuals to organise their customer conversations and boost inbox productivity.

Cooby is Surge’s first startup founded and based in Taiwan. It is a conversation management solution for WhatsApp and other business messaging channels. The company aims to re-imagines sales management by building team management solutions on top of popular messaging apps like WhatsApp and LINE.

Cooby equips these teams with WhatsApp work number setup, data sync, analytics dashboard, alerts and notifications, and collaboration interface to regulate WhatsApp and enhance sales.

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The company also provides visibility to customer conversations and sales activities on a unified platform. Cooby Workspace makes collaboration on WhatsApp possible without all the back-and-forths aggregating all customer contacts. It provides actionable analytics that enables teams to track, improve and grow.

“Since October 2021, we have expanded our customer base to Germany, India, Indonesia, Singapore, and the US. Additionally, in the last three months, we’ve seen the user base of our WhatsApp inbox productivity Chrome extension grow by 350 per cent, and it is now being used in 80+ countries. We look forward to further strengthening our Cooby Workspace product with the funds raised, on top of expanding our team to countries like Singapore and other parts of the world,” said Wen Shaw, CEO and Co-Founder of Cooby.

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