Charles from Berlin raised €1 million in funding from angel investors Tarek Müller and Alexander Graf.

Charles, a Berlin, Germany-based software startup, announced that it completed a capital funding round of €1 million ($1.2M).

The money was raised from local angel investors from Germany, including Tarek Müller and Alexander Graf (Wald & Wiese Holding)

Charles, founded in by CEO Artjem Weissbeck and Andreas Tussing (both CEO of the company), developed a software solution that helps e-commerce companies integrate what they call a conversational commerce tool. The software enables merchants and consumer brands to sell products via WhatsApp and other chat apps, as they integrate their existing e-commerce and chatbot tools into one interface, where all messaging and chat apps are also integrated. Within conversational commerce, customers can ask questions, discover products, order and re-order, track shipping, get return labels and personalised notifications about deals.