Top 111 Natural Language Processing startups

Nov 29, 2024 | By Siddhant Patel

These companies develop new language processing technologies, train large language models, create NLP platforms and APIs or specific applications that allow to understand and generate human language.
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Country: USA | Funding: $17.9B
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
2
Country: China | Funding: $1.3B
MoonShot AI seeks solutions in transforming energy into intelligence and generating intelligence with users through its product offerings.
3
Country: France | Funding: €1.1B
Mistral AI develops open and portable generative AI for devs and businesses.
4
Country: Canada | Funding: $934.9M
Cohere offers an API to add language processing to any system.
5
Country: USA | Funding: $685M
Fractal partners with Fortune 500 companies to power every human decision in the enterprise.
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Country: Germany | Funding: $642.8M
Aleph Alpha aims to revolutionize the accessibility and usability of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in Europe.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $583M
Gong.io has built a tool that uses natural language processing and machine learning to help train and suggest information to sales people and other customer service reps
8
Country: Israel | Funding: $569M
Verbit is using smart AI technology to disrupt transcription and captioning with automation and speed.
9
Country: USA | Funding: $451M
SoundHound develops voice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies. It provides Speech-to-Meaning engine and Deep Meaning Understanding technology that can be built in other services and devices. It also develops app for music recognition and voice assistant for search.
10
Country: USA | Funding: $415M
Adept AI is a machine learning research and product lab building general intelligence.
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Country: Ukraine | Funding: $400M
Grammarly is a digital writing assistant that helps people write more clearly and effectively.
12
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
13
Country: France | Funding: $334.2M
A powerful hosted search engine API, Algolia provides product teams with the resources & tools they need to create fast, relevant search.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $326.5M
AI21 Labs specializes in developing AI systems with an unprecedented capacity to understand and generate natural language.
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Country: USA | Funding: $326M
Writer is the AI writing assistant for the world’s smartest brands. We help brand owners and content leaders scale their messaging, communication style, and must-have language, no matter who’s writing. Top brands like Twitter, Intuit, and McKesson have standardized their content creation on Writer.
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Country: USA | Funding: $279M
TaskUs is a customer care and back office support company that helps companies provide exceptional experiences for their customers. TaskUs provides AI training and social network content moderation services.
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Country: China | Funding: $264.9M
Mobvoi is an AI company that developed Chinese voice recognition, natural language processing, and vertical search technology in-house.
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Country: USA | Funding: $237M
Primer builds machines that can read and write, automating the analysis of very large datasets. It trawls thousands of sources online, using natural language processing to read and try to make sense of the vast amount of “open source intelligence”.
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Country: USA | Funding: $232M
Imbue is an independent research lab that trains foundational models to develop AI agents.
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Country: USA | Funding: $214M
Observe.AI is building a Voice AI platform for call centers. Its first product "Agent Assist"​ empowers call center agents to do their jobs better. The platform provides the agent with real-time feedback on customer sentiment and guides them on next best action during the customer call. The AI platform listens to the call stream in real time, uses deep learning and natural language processing (NLP) to understand the context and generates suggestions and guidance for the agent.
Editor: Siddhant Patel
Siddhant Patel is a senior editor for AI-Startups. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. Siddhant has a special interest in artificial intelligence and has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the industry. Siddhant graduated from the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru). When he’s not writing, Siddhant is also a developer and has a deep historical knowledge of the computer industry for the past 50 years. You can contact Siddhant at sidpatel(at)ai-startups(dot)org