The opening of a Singapore office in August this year marked another step in the international expansion of Australian artificial intelligence start-up Hyper Anna. The company is just two years old and already has a sales team based in Hong Kong, which it hired soon after it caught the eye of Sequoia China and raised A$16 million in Series A funds in September last year.
Hyper Anna wants more Asian customers to sign up to its data analytics product that goes by the name Anna a digital assistant who can answer questions about key performance drivers in real-time. The product operates like Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa and allows...