Top 10 Startups developing Conversational AI

Updated: April 24, 2024

Conversational AI startups use natural language processing, machine learning, and deep learning models to create intelligent chatbots and virtual assistants that can engage in human-like conversations and provide personalized and efficient customer support.
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Country: USA | Funding: $1.5B
Inflection AI is an artificial intelligence startup that develops personal AI chatbots.
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Country: India | Funding: $620.9M
Global Conversational AI technology company that enables businesses to deliver transformational customer service across touchpoints.
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Country: France | Funding: $395.2M
Hugging Face is a social AI who learns to chit-chat, talks sassy, and trades selfies with users. In particular it develops a framework for translation models
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Country: USA | Funding: $223.5M
Kore.ai specializes in AI-rich conversational solutions designed specifically for enterprises.
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Country: Denmark | Funding: $157.9M
Dixa is conversational customer engagement software that connects brands with customers through real-time communication
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Country: USA | Funding: $150M
Character.ai provides open-ended conversational applications that let users create characters and converse with them.
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Country: India | Funding: $102.2M
Yellow Messenger offers a software platform that serves as an enterprise AI channel for customer engagement.
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Country: India | Funding: $101M
ORAI is an AI-Powered Conversational Platform ready to integrate with your website, WhatsApp, and other social media platforms.
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Country: Germany | Funding: $92M
Parloa is a Conversational AI platform for automating omnichannel customer service in phone bots or chatbots.
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Country: UK | Funding: $70M
Poly AI develops a machine learning platform for conversational artificial intelligence.
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Country: Germany | Funding: $69M
Cognigy is the leading Enterprise Conversational AI Platform for customer & employee support process automation.
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Country: USA | Funding: $63.3M
Inbenta is a conversational AI solution designed to improve customer engagement.
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Country: USA | Funding: $60.7M
Clinc develops intelligent personal financial assistant. Mobile, voice-activated, artificial intelligence platform enabling personal and instant answers for common or complex questions.
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Country: Ukraine | Funding: $60.7M
Shelf frees companies from the complexities of knowledge management with AI, so employees can do a better job and always find the answers they need.
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Country: Romania | Funding: $50.6M
DRUID is a conversational AI platform for enterprise companies that allows easy development of intelligent virtual assistants.
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Country: USA | Funding: $8.8M
Dialogflow is a conversational user experience platform enabling natural language interactions for devices, applications and services. Developers can use Dialogflow services for speech recognition, natural language processing (intent recognition and context awareness), and conversation management to quickly and easily differentiate their business, increase customer satisfaction and improve business processes.
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Country: USA | Funding: $46.5M
Pypestream’s Customer Engagement Solution enables businesses to connect with customers using the power of smart messaging, driving satisfaction and loyalty. The patented, secure and compliant platform combines pragmatic AI and chatbots to enable transactions over messaging.
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Country: USA | Funding: $44M
Quiq is a customer service messaging platform that allows brands to engage with customers easily, across digital messaging channels.
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Country: USA | Funding: $41.7M
Hi Marley is a developer of an artificially intelligent-based SMS texting platform designed to bridge the conversation.
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Country: South Korea | Funding: $39.9M
Skelter Labs is an artificial intelligence technology company developing innovative machine intelligence technology.
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Country: USA | Funding: $40.2M
Rasa builds the standard infrastructure layer for conversational AI. It supplies the standard infrastructure for conversational AI, providing the tools required to build resilient contextual assistants.
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Country: USA | Funding: $35M
Level AI is a platform for businesses to automate tedious workflows and transform customer experience.
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Country: India | Funding: $30.5M
Avaamo is a deep-learning software company that specialises in conversational AI interfaces to solve specific, high impact problems in the enterprise.
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Country: USA | Funding: $25.3M
Voicebox Technologies is a leader in conversational AI development, giving you everything you need to build secure ASR, NLU, and TTS apps.
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Country: USA | Funding: $25M
Ema develops AI technology to empower enterprise employees by delegating repetitive tasks.
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Country: USA | Funding: $20.9M
Conversational AI interfaces will soon enable people to communicate naturally with computers for the first time. This historic innovation will unleash a wave of changes to search, e-commerce, social networks, productivity software, and devices. Semantic Machines is developing the fundamental AI technology needed to make conversational computing a reality.
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Country: Cyprus | Funding: $20M
Omilia offers a customer care virtual assistant that uses machine learning to offer what it claims is a more “human-like” experience.
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Country: USA | Funding: $16.5M
Orbita provides software to improve patient engagement in digital healthcare through voice-first and conversational AI solutions.
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Country: USA | Funding: $17M
Kea drives the world’s commerce by empowering restaurants to operate more intelligently and own their relationship with customers.
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Country: Singapore | Funding: $14.8M
Active.Ai has built an advanced, proprietary conversational AI platform that can be easily deployed for financial institutions, insurance companies and capital markets.
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Country: Canada | Funding: $15M
Botpress wants to make it easier for developers to build conversational-based apps, meaning humans interact with the app by speaking instead of typing, clicking or tapping.
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Country: UK | Funding: $13M
OpenDialog AI is a conversational AI platform designed to assist enterprises in creating personalized AI chatbots and digital assistants.
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Country: India | Funding: $12.2M
Haptik’s CX platform allows to build powerful Intelligent Virtual Assistants to amplify engagement, increase conversions, and deliver delightful support for your customers.
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Country: Canada | Funding: $10.9M
Automat is helping companies use AI to talk to their customers, to understand them and serve them better. It provides a Conversational Marketing platform powered by artificial intelligence that can personalize one-on-one conversation with every customer, fan, and follower.
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Country: Germany | Funding: $11M
Spectrm is a conversational AI platform that enables world-class brands to have 1:1 conversations on messaging apps.
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Country: USA | Funding: $10.7M
DXwand is a technology & AI passionate team curious about transforming businesses with AI to be their growth partner.
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Country: Germany | Funding: $9.2M
E-bot7 automates customer service through the integration of Artificial Intelligence
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Country: USA | Funding: $7.9M
Peerlogic is a voice-based conversational intelligence software designed for the dental industry. Powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Peerlogic works by identifying hidden revenue and providing call data insights that result in business revenue growth.
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Country: Canada | Funding: CA$8.5M
Heyday is the leading Conversational AI platform for retailers
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Country: USA | Funding: $4.8M
Intelligent voice-based conversational agents for the enterprise
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Country: USA | Funding: $4.5M
Conversational Collective Intelligence: Delivering human conversations better than humanly possible.
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Country: UK | Funding: $4.1M
Advanced Conversational AI to provide powerful voice-first experiences for any industry.
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Country: USA | Funding: $3.7M
Reply.ai  is an enterprise platform does more than provide an enterprise solution to chatbot creation and management. It uses AI to help bots learn from conversations over time while also providing them with the “smarts” to let customer service know a more personal, “human” touch is needed. Acquired by Kustomer
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Country: Japan | Funding: $3.7M
Studio Ousia develops artificial intelligence question answering system that understands questions and returns answers in seconds allows to automate customer helpdesks and work FAQs.
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Country: USA | Funding: $250K
VoiceStar.ai develops Voice and AI technology for foodservice
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Country: USA | Funding: $2M
Dasha is a conversational AI as a service platform. It provides developers with tools to create human-like, deeply conversational AI applications. The apps can be used for call center agent replacement, text chat or to add conversational voice interfaces to mobile apps or IOT devices.
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Country: USA | Funding: $1.5M
Eloquent Labs supplies artificial intelligence to augment and replace live chat customer support agents at eCommerce companies.
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Country: India | Funding: $336K
Multilingual Conversational Enterprise AI Platform for omnichannel automation of customer journeys in the user's native language.
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Country: Ukraine | Funding: $150K
Outloud.ai allows businesses to automate voice conversations with their customers using Artificial Intelligence
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Country: USA
Botanic is a product and services company specializing in conversational interfaces and avatars. They create conversational personalities who act as an interface.