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Top 10 Natural Language Processing startups
Updated: March 07, 2024 |
Natural-language processing (NLP) is an area of computer science and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages, in particular how to program computers to fruitfully process large amounts of natural language data.
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Country: USA | Funding: $11.3B
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
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Country: China | Funding: $1.3B
MoonShot AI seeks solutions in transforming energy into intelligence and generating intelligence with users through its product offerings.
MoonShot AI seeks solutions in transforming energy into intelligence and generating intelligence with users through its product offerings.
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Country: USA | Funding: $685M
Fractal partners with Fortune 500 companies to power every human decision in the enterprise.
Fractal partners with Fortune 500 companies to power every human decision in the enterprise.
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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
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
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Country: Israel | Funding: $569M
Verbit is using smart AI technology to disrupt transcription and captioning with automation and speed.
Verbit is using smart AI technology to disrupt transcription and captioning with automation and speed.
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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.
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.
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Country: Canada | Funding: $434.9M
Cohere offers an API to add language processing to any system.
Cohere offers an API to add language processing to any system.
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Country: Ukraine | Funding: $400M
Grammarly is a digital writing assistant that helps people write more clearly and effectively.
Grammarly is a digital writing assistant that helps people write more clearly and effectively.
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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
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: 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.
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.
AI21 Labs specializes in developing AI systems with an unprecedented capacity to understand and generate natural language.
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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.
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: $252.8M
Mobvoi is an AI company that developed Chinese voice recognition, natural language processing, and vertical search technology in-house.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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Country: USA | Funding: $201.5M
Invoca provides complete call intelligence for business. Its machine learning algorithms analyze live phone conversations to understand caller intent and outcomes. Marketers can utilize these insights to make smarter decisions on everything from PPC bidding strategy to digital retargeting audiences.
Invoca provides complete call intelligence for business. Its machine learning algorithms analyze live phone conversations to understand caller intent and outcomes. Marketers can utilize these insights to make smarter decisions on everything from PPC bidding strategy to digital retargeting audiences.
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Country: USA | Funding: $165M
Typeface is a generative AI application for creating enterprise content.
Typeface is a generative AI application for creating enterprise content.
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Country: Canada | Funding: $131M
Jasper is the AI Content Platform that helps you and your team break through creative blocks to create amazing, original content 10X faster.
Jasper is the AI Content Platform that helps you and your team break through creative blocks to create amazing, original content 10X faster.
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Country: China | Funding: $128.9M
Through cutting-edge AI technology & innovative product design, Liulishuo helps users learn English more efficiently and communicate with the world.
Through cutting-edge AI technology & innovative product design, Liulishuo helps users learn English more efficiently and communicate with the world.
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Country: USA | Funding: $126M
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.
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: $119.2M
Notable uses AI to automate and digitize every physician-patient interaction. It automtes recording of doctor’s visits and updating of electronic health records. The company has developed a technology that uses natural language processing and voice recognition to automatically record doctor-patient interactions and structure the data for inclusion in a patient’s medical records.
Notable uses AI to automate and digitize every physician-patient interaction. It automtes recording of doctor’s visits and updating of electronic health records. The company has developed a technology that uses natural language processing and voice recognition to automatically record doctor-patient interactions and structure the data for inclusion in a patient’s medical records.
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Country: UK | Funding: $101.6M
Signal AI is an artificial intelligence company that transforms the world’s information into accessible, actionable business knowledge.
Signal AI is an artificial intelligence company that transforms the world’s information into accessible, actionable business knowledge.
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Country: USA | Funding: $92.5M
Lilt is a technology company that develops an artificial intelligence-powered enterprise language software.
Lilt is a technology company that develops an artificial intelligence-powered enterprise language software.
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Country: USA | Funding: $87M
Developer of products for the security industry. It develops AI-based solutions for counter-terrorism missions tackling national security problems. It also uses natural language processing and caters mainly to the defense and intelligence industries.
Developer of products for the security industry. It develops AI-based solutions for counter-terrorism missions tackling national security problems. It also uses natural language processing and caters mainly to the defense and intelligence industries.
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Country: USA | Funding: $78.6M
DefinedCrowd develops a Crowd-as-a-Service intelligent data platform intended to accelerate enterprise data training and modeling.
DefinedCrowd develops a Crowd-as-a-Service intelligent data platform intended to accelerate enterprise data training and modeling.
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Country: UK | Funding: $70M
Poly AI develops a machine learning platform for conversational artificial intelligence.
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.
Cognigy is the leading Enterprise Conversational AI Platform for customer & employee support process automation.
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Country: UK | Funding: $61.7M
AutogenAI provides cutting edge natural language processing solutions to enable companies to write compelling content for bids.
AutogenAI provides cutting edge natural language processing solutions to enable companies to write compelling content for bids.
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Country: UK | Funding: $59.4M
Eigen is a research-driven AI company specialising in NLP for businesses in finance, law and professional services. Eigen automates the extraction and classification of information from documents. Their simple, flexible Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology accurately extracts information from diverse types of documents at scale and can be integrated into our clients’ workflows.
Eigen is a research-driven AI company specialising in NLP for businesses in finance, law and professional services. Eigen automates the extraction and classification of information from documents. Their simple, flexible Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology accurately extracts information from diverse types of documents at scale and can be integrated into our clients’ workflows.
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Country: France | Funding: €50.5M
SESAMm is a fintech company that specializes in big data and artificial intelligence for investment.
SESAMm is a fintech company that specializes in big data and artificial intelligence for investment.
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Country: USA | Funding: $53.2M
Tact.ai develops first omnichannel AI-powered digital assistant for sales teams. Tact Sales Assistant acts as a salesperson’s single pane of glass over customer data scattered across CRM, LinkedIn, Zendesk, email, calendar, Box, OneDrive and legacy databases. For companies struggling with CRM adoption, Tact’s frictionless experience and contextual insights deliver greater sales productivity, higher win rates, and faster sales cycles.
Tact.ai develops first omnichannel AI-powered digital assistant for sales teams. Tact Sales Assistant acts as a salesperson’s single pane of glass over customer data scattered across CRM, LinkedIn, Zendesk, email, calendar, Box, OneDrive and legacy databases. For companies struggling with CRM adoption, Tact’s frictionless experience and contextual insights deliver greater sales productivity, higher win rates, and faster sales cycles.
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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.
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.
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: Germany | Funding: $45.6M
Next-level semantic search for enterprises fueled by latest NLP and open-source
Next-level semantic search for enterprises fueled by latest NLP and open-source
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Country: USA | Funding: $45M
Spectrum helps gaming, dating, marketplaces and social platforms recognize and respond to toxic online behavior across any language.
Spectrum helps gaming, dating, marketplaces and social platforms recognize and respond to toxic online behavior across any language.
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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.
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: $42.5M
Augmented writing is fueled by massive quantities of data, contributed by companies across industries and around the world. Textio’s predictive engine uses this data to uncover meaningful patterns in language, guiding you to stronger communication and better business outcomes.
Augmented writing is fueled by massive quantities of data, contributed by companies across industries and around the world. Textio’s predictive engine uses this data to uncover meaningful patterns in language, guiding you to stronger communication and better business outcomes.
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Country: Japan | Funding: $42.4M
Cinnamon is an AI startup that develops products aimed at reducing the amount of time people spend on mundane tasks. Its Flax Scanner takes lengthy documents and extracts only the most pertinent information, while Lapis Engine is an natural language processing (NLP) based search engine designed to give recommendations for applications such as e-commerce or a recruiting platform, and Scuro Bot is a chatbot which can also process natural languages.
Cinnamon is an AI startup that develops products aimed at reducing the amount of time people spend on mundane tasks. Its Flax Scanner takes lengthy documents and extracts only the most pertinent information, while Lapis Engine is an natural language processing (NLP) based search engine designed to give recommendations for applications such as e-commerce or a recruiting platform, and Scuro Bot is a chatbot which can also process natural languages.
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Country: South Korea | Funding: $39.9M
Skelter Labs is an artificial intelligence technology company developing innovative machine intelligence technology.
Skelter Labs is an artificial intelligence technology company developing innovative machine intelligence technology.
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Country: USA | Funding: $38.2M
Calypso AI provides a platform that allows organizations to accelerate their use of language models. Its solution protects sensitive information from unauthorized access via public large language models, detects and prevents malicious attacks deployed through generative AI tools and verifies LLM output to enhance decision-making.
Calypso AI provides a platform that allows organizations to accelerate their use of language models. Its solution protects sensitive information from unauthorized access via public large language models, detects and prevents malicious attacks deployed through generative AI tools and verifies LLM output to enhance decision-making.
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Country: Germany | Funding: $36.6M
lengoo is the future of translation. A full-service technology platform for customer-specific machine translation using Neural networks.
lengoo is the future of translation. A full-service technology platform for customer-specific machine translation using Neural networks.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $35M
Twiggle is using the most advanced technologies in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing to power next generation e-commerce experiences. Twiggle's solutions are the only search technologies built on both human-like understanding of linguistic structure and a deep retail awareness — allowing your search engine to mimic how an experienced salesperson would (and should) behave.
Twiggle is using the most advanced technologies in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing to power next generation e-commerce experiences. Twiggle's solutions are the only search technologies built on both human-like understanding of linguistic structure and a deep retail awareness — allowing your search engine to mimic how an experienced salesperson would (and should) behave.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $35M
Hyro uses AI to facilitate text and voice conversations across the web, call centers and apps between healthcare organizations and their clients.
Hyro uses AI to facilitate text and voice conversations across the web, call centers and apps between healthcare organizations and their clients.
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Country: India | Funding: ₹3.4B
Sarvam AI is building large language models with support for Indian languages and creating a platform that will allow businesses to build with LLMs
Sarvam AI is building large language models with support for Indian languages and creating a platform that will allow businesses to build with LLMs
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Country: Spain | Funding: $33.4M
Taiger is specializing in knowledge access solutions and helps firms solve information access problems. Taiger is a provider of state-of-the-art semantic software, overcoming thesauri and taxonomies limitations through ontologies.
Taiger is specializing in knowledge access solutions and helps firms solve information access problems. Taiger is a provider of state-of-the-art semantic software, overcoming thesauri and taxonomies limitations through ontologies.
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Country: USA | Funding: $28.3M
Insight Engines Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology enables to ask “plain English” queries of your machine data, eliminating the need to learn and use complex, proprietary query languages.
Insight Engines Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology enables to ask “plain English” queries of your machine data, eliminating the need to learn and use complex, proprietary query languages.
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Country: USA | Funding: $28.3M
Kognitos is an AI platform designed to automate business processes.
Kognitos is an AI platform designed to automate business processes.