{"id":4071,"date":"2019-02-22T13:58:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T08:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swatisani.net\/blog\/?p=4071"},"modified":"2019-02-22T19:54:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T14:24:08","slug":"orai-app-gets-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swatisani.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/orai-app-gets-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Aasim&#8217;s startup Orai App gets Media coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Aasim&#8217;s first startup, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oraiapp.com\/\">Orai App<\/a> was chosen to be at <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/03\/06\/comcast-nbcuniversal-lift-labs\/\">Comcast&#8217;s Lift Lab accelerator<\/a> program in 2018 batch where they met a lot of people, were given guidance and learnt a lot on how to run a startup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Orai App improves upon a person&#8217;s spoken skills by giving feedback and ratings and trains a person, or a group of people (like sales forces) for better communication thereby increasing the chances of professional success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January 2019, Orai got a funding of $2.3 M and the company was featured on. 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