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Kapiche

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Kapiche is an AI-powered conversation intelligence platform that analyzes customer interactions across all channels to identify patterns, predict churn, and measure customer experience ROI. It serves customer experience leaders, support teams, product managers, and executives across industries including financial services, travel and hospitality, and higher education.

Founders & leadership

R
Ryan
K
Kris

Investors · 7

Also in the syndicate · 2

Queensland Government Business Development FundRiver City Labs Accelerator Fund

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Kapiche is a customer intelligence and feedback analytics platform that ingests and analyzes customer conversations from across an organization's existing channels — surveys (NPS, CSAT, CES), support calls, live chat, email, SMS, social media, app and Google reviews, community forums, support tickets, chatbot transcripts and voice recordings. Its stated aim is to let teams analyze all customer interactions rather than the small share (described by the company as roughly 3–5%) captured by survey responses.

The platform is structured around a connect–analyze–act–grow workflow. Integrations pull conversations from existing customer experience and support tooling in real time; an intelligence engine normalizes and enriches the text into structured fields such as reason for contact, satisfaction and eCSAT so results are comparable across channels; and outputs are delivered in formats aimed at specific audiences, including product feedback for product teams, QA reporting for support teams and summary reporting for executives. Named product features include Agent QA, AI Enrichments, AI Themes and Ask Kapiche. Marketed use cases include predicting churn from conversation patterns, automating quality assurance across interactions instead of manual sampling, identifying root causes of support volume, and connecting CX programs to retention and cost metrics.

Earlier descriptions of the company framed it as an AI-powered platform helping companies draw insights from customer feedback data, combining unstructured opinion data with the structured data businesses already hold (such as tenure, spend and likelihood to recommend) to produce actionable insight. The company did not, and does not, handle feedback collection itself.

Founding story

Kapiche was founded in 2017 by engineers Ryan Stuart and Kris Rogers, who had attended high school and university together and later worked together as engineers. They identified a gap around analyzing unstructured customer opinion data — noting that most business decisions rely on structured data while over 70% of the world's data is unstructured — and began developing algorithms independently, building several early MVPs that missed the mark because they were built without customer input.

Business model

Kapiche sells a B2B SaaS platform to enterprise customer-facing teams, with published pricing tiers and a demo/consultative sales motion. The product is positioned as an intelligence layer that sits on top of a customer's existing survey, support, communication, social/review and voice tools rather than replacing them or collecting feedback itself.

Subscription software sold to businesses, with pricing published on the company website; revenue figures have not been disclosed publicly.

Traction

The company reported growing from zero to meaningful revenue quickly after its 2017 launch without disclosing figures, and grew from five to 11 employees after its 2019 raise. Current site materials cite customer outcomes including a financial services organization that identified 60% of refinancing confusion occurring at one step and achieved a 23% reduction in customer effort across channels, plus G2 High Performer status and a claim of being the top feedback analytics platform in Australia.

Latest developments

Current site materials describe an expanded conversation intelligence positioning with AI-driven features (AI Enrichments, AI Themes, Agent QA, Ask Kapiche), claims of 89% accuracy in predicting escalations, SOC 2 certification and G2 High Performer recognition, and active hiring for the team.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history

Market position

Kapiche presents itself as an intelligence layer for existing customer technology stacks and claims to be the leading feedback analytics platform in Australia. It competes in the customer feedback and conversation analytics category alongside Chattermill, Thematic, Enterpret and Verint.

Kapiche positions itself against platforms that aggregate customer data without normalizing it, arguing that normalization across channels is what makes survey, ticket and chat data comparable. It emphasizes coverage of all conversations rather than survey samples, cross-channel consistency of methodology, and enterprise requirements such as SOC 2 certification. Its own site names Chattermill, Thematic, Enterpret and Verint as comparison points.

Technology

The platform combines integrations with survey, support, communication, social/review and voice/audio systems with an AI-based intelligence engine that structures unstructured conversation text into enrichments such as reason for contact, satisfaction and eCSAT, and normalizes terminology so equivalent issues expressed differently across channels can be compared. Additional capabilities include automated agent quality scoring, theme detection, natural-language querying and churn/escalation prediction.

Go-to-market

Go-to-market is enterprise sales-led, centred on booking demos and calls, with published pricing, customer stories, competitor comparison pages, a blog and newsletter as supporting content. Management has publicly stressed prioritising a strong go-to-market team alongside product for B2B SaaS.

Customer experience, customer support, customer success, product and insights leaders at organizations running voice-of-customer programs, including enterprises in financial services, travel, higher education and member-based organizations such as RACWA.

Geography

The company originated in Queensland, Australia, with early activity in Brisbane (River City Labs, Muru-D accelerator). As of 2019 it planned to begin selling in the United States and to open a US office. Its site claims the position of number one feedback analytics platform in Australia and refers to customers worldwide.

History

The company was accepted into the CUA Sponsored Entrepreneur Program at River City Labs in mid-2016, launched its product in April 2017 and won its first paying customer soon after, then joined the Muru-D River City Labs accelerator in Brisbane in October 2017. In September 2019 it raised A$1.75 million led by Main Sequence Ventures, using the capital to more than double headcount from five to 11 staff, move from a co-working space into its own office, and prepare to sell into the United States. Positioning has since broadened from customer feedback analysis toward conversation and customer intelligence spanning support, product and executive use cases.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
EmployeesSep 201911 people
Escalation prediction accuracy (company claim)Jan 202689%
Security certificationJan 2026SOC 2 certified; G2 High Performer

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Timeline · 4

launches, deals, and filings
Sep 2019
Team expansion and move to own office

Following the 2019 raise, Kapiche more than doubled its team from five to 11 people and moved out of a co-working space into its own office, with plans to sell into the US market and open a US office.

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Oct 2017
Accepted into Muru-D River City Labs accelerator

The founders were accepted into the Muru-D River City Labs accelerator in Brisbane.

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Apr 2017
Kapiche launched commercially

After building early MVPs, the founders launched Kapiche in April 2017 and acquired their first paying customer shortly afterwards.

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Jan 2016
Accepted into CUA Sponsored Entrepreneur Program at River City Labs

In mid-2016 Kapiche was accepted into the CUA Sponsored Entrepreneur Program based at River City Labs.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

In the news

Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Kapiche do?
Australian AI platform that analyzes customer conversations across surveys, support, reviews and social to produce structured CX intelligence.
Who founded Kapiche?
Kapiche was founded by Ryan, Kris.
Who are Kapiche's investors?
Kapiche's investors include Flying Fox Ventures, Moxxie Ventures, Sydney Angels, Transition Level Investments, Main Sequence Ventures.