Yseop (pronounced 'Easy-Op') is a French software company, specializing in

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intelligent report automation, using

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(NLG). Established in 2000 with offices in Paris, New York,

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and Bogota. Yseop was a pioneer in NLG which laid the groundwork for Chat GPT and

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. Yseop's original founding tea
sold their stake in the company to Next Stage
a French Private Equity Company.

History

Yseop was established in 2000 by Alain Kaeser, based on his research at the

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(formerly ENS Cachan). Research and development for Yseop's technology began in the mathematical lab

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. The company was co-founded with John Rauscher, after he sold his start-up called Sunopsis to

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in 2006. Yseop first commercialized its product as a

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at the end of 2008, and opened up its American subsidiary in

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in 2012.

The Yseop Team

Former and current Yseop executives include Emmanuel Walckenaer (current CEO), John Rauscher (former CEO), Matthieu Andre (former CFO and currently at Groupe PSIH), Maxine Azoulay (former US CTO and formerly of Meero and now at

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) and Arden Manning (formerly at the

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and currently cofounder of Nituno). Alain Kaeser, Yseop's founder, has been with the company since 2000 and continues to lead its strategic planning.

Products

Yseop commercializes

(NLG) software, which reasons on data and turns it into written recommendations and reports. Yseop's software writes in English, Spanish, French and German. Yseop has worked with

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Recognition

In 2014, Tom Austin, vice president and fellow at

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, cited Yseop,

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and

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as part of the Smart Machine, technological revolution that "has the promise to be one of the most disruptive changes ever".

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