Bhubaneswar: Young Odia innovator and entrepreneur Subrat Parida's Racetrack.ai, a Bengaluru based startup has been placed in NASSCOM's top 50 emerging startups 2017 list.
NASSCOM Chairman Mukul Roy felicitated Subrat at a special award ceremony in Bengaluru.
Racetrack has been awarded for its innovative product 'Marvin', an Artificial Intelligence-driven sales communication robot that engages customers with human-like conversations in order to reduce the labour and drive sales efficiently.
Marvin BoT not only uses chatting but also seamlessly connects customer executives via audio and video calling.
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Earlier, Racetrack had bagged the best innovative IT startup in India from world leadership federation and later won the 2016 Aegis Graham Bell Award for Innovation in the field of Artificial Intelligence the same year.
Speaking on the achievement, Subrat says he is more inspired to do something for the betterment of Odias and Odisha. It is a great honour for us to be selected in the final top 50 startups out of the shortlisted 140 from among the 400 applications from across the country, Subrat said.
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Subrat is an alumnus of IIM, Bengaluru and along with Navneet Gupta from BITS, Pilani, established Racetrack in October 2015. He is presently the CEO of the company.