Avarra has AI characters that can train human salespeople.
Avarra has AI characters that can train human salespeople.
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Avarra raises $8M for AI-based avatar sales training

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Avarra has raised $8 million in funding and it is launching its first AI-avatar-based enterprise application that uses AI avatars to train human salespeople.

Lightspeed Venture Partners, which is one of our sponsors at our upcoming GamesBeat Next 2024 event in San Francisco on October 28-29 (use this code, gbdean25 for 25% off), lead the round.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.