Bonobo.ai

A compelling go-to-market strategy, integrated launch campaign, and demand generation engine helped Israeli startup Bonobo.ai gain rapid market traction – and ultimately get acquired by Salesforce.

8 Weeks

from start of Blue Seedling engagement to full website relaunch

$0

in PR budget to secure top US media coverage (including TechCrunch)

Services provided
B2B Marketing Team

Industry
Conversational AI

Buyer vertical
Enterprise SaaS/B2C

Company location:
Tel Aviv

Services provided
B2B Marketing Team

Industry
Conversational AI

Buyer vertical
Enterprise SaaS/B2C

Company location:
Tel Aviv

The Blue Seedling team helped us tremendously with our marketing strategy and execution on all fronts, including leading the launch of our product with great success. They’re an invaluable asset for every B2B company.
Efrat Rapoport
Co-Founder & CEO, Bonobo | Current Head of Salesforce Israel R&D Center

Israeli startup Bonobo.ai, founded in 2017, pioneered a unique artificial intelligence (AI) technology that helps enterprises serve their customers better by analyzing unstructured voice and chat interactions. But in a saturated and hype-filled landscape, they needed a differentiated path to bring their product to market. Bonobo partnered with Blue Seedling to define their personas and positioning, build a killer launch campaign, and hack their way to a repeatable demand generation strategy.


A Promising Concept

Israeli startup Bonobo.ai was founded in 2017 with a simple mission: to use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve how businesses interact with their customers. Bonobo enjoyed unique IP, high-profile investors, and a promising group of early design partners. But the team needed to flesh out their launch strategy. What market segment should they go after? How would a startup from Tel Aviv make a dent in the crowded, hype-filled global market for AI? The Blue Seedling team knew that working with Bonobo would require an approach that spanned strategy to execution.

From Strategy to Nuts and Bolts

Blue Seedling began by staging a go-to-market workshop with the Bonobo leadership team. Bonobo’s leaders came from a diverse set of backgrounds and had divergent ideas about the company’s direction. But through an intensive, participatory design thinking workshop (read more on our approach here), the group aligned on core elements of Bonobo’s strategy:

  • Positioning and messaging
  • Personas
  • Pillars of brand identity
  • Key use cases

Armed with a go-to-market strategy, Blue Seedling laid the foundation for launching the startup. The team developed the specs and content for Bonobo’s website, and worked with a design and development team to launch the site. And Blue Seedling generated all blog content and sales collateral the team would need in order to educate and engage prospects.

Next, the Blue Seedling team staged Bonobo’s launch. Through strategic packaging and pitching of the story (and without using an external – and expensive – PR agency!), the team scored coverage in both the Israeli and US markets (including coverage in TechCrunch).

Finally, Blue Seedling turned its attention to creating a high-performing demand generation machine for Bonobo. By leveraging content hacking tactics (like a survey of customer experience leaders already in the database) alongside webinars and events, Blue Seedling built a robust and repeatable sales pipeline in months.


A New Beginning

While Bonobo did not set out in search of an exit strategy, the company’s rapid success led to unexpected opportunities. In May 2019, the company was acquired by Salesforce. Bonobo’s IP is now the engine powering Einstein’s conversational AI products portfolio.

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