Top 46 Startups developing AI-powered Virtual Assistants

Aug 21, 2025 | By Siddhant Patel

These startups develop AI virtual assistants - cognitive (usually voice-enabled) software agents that can perform tasks or services for consumers or professionals.
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Country: Netherlands | Funding: $85.5M
Medal is a developer of a short-form gaming video clips platform to share digital game clips and highlights with gamers.
2
Country: USA | Funding: $1.5B
Inflection AI is an artificial intelligence startup that develops personal AI chatbots.
3
Country: USA | Funding: $806M
Harvey is an artificial intelligence technology service provider for legal/knowledge workers.
4
Country: China | Funding: $643.9M
Rokid is an innovative technology company specializing in robotics research and AI development. It develops Pebble virtual assistant.
5
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.
6
Country: Germany | Funding: $189.5M
Ada Health offers a new approach to personalized health, supported by a sophisticated artificial intelligence technology. Ada its conversational health assistant to empower people with personalized medical insights and identify appropriate next steps.
7
Country: USA | Funding: $165M
Suki makes an AI-powered and voice-enabled digital assistant for doctors
8
Country: USA | Funding: $150.1M
Character.ai provides open-ended conversational applications that let users create characters and converse with them.
9
Country: UK | Funding: $138.8M
Cleo is a developer of an app and chatbot designed as a financial assistant.
10
Country: UK | Funding: $110.4M
Plum Fintech develops personal savings assistant solutions for customers in the United Kingdom.
11
Country: USA | Funding: $87.5M
Jane is an artificial intelligence platform that makes all of your company's information accessible through chat.
12
Country: Israel | Funding: $83M
Intuition designs social companion technologies that positively impacts the lives of older adults. Its technology utilizes artificial intelligence to develop robots, enabling older adults to connect seamlessly with family and friends, making technology accessible and intuitive, and proactively promoting an active lifestyle.
13
Country: UK | Funding: $76M
11xAI builds automated digital workers that can be used in lieu of human employees. It has built an AI sales development representative called Alice and plans to create James, focused on automated talent acquisition and Bob, targeting automated human resources work in the upcoming years.
14
Country: USA | Funding: $68.8M
AiCure's intelligent medical assistant, IMA, visually controls that medication is taken.
15
Country: Canada | Funding: $67.1M
Wysdom develops full-stack virtual assistant platform. Connect to customers, answer questions, complete purchases, and transact any time with a trusted cognitive enterprise care solution over social, web chat, and IVR.
16
Country: USA | Funding: $64.3M
Casetext develops CARA - personal legal assistant. Simply drop a brief into CARA's secure system, and CARA's machine learning and AI technology will immediately go to work, researching Casetext's entire database of U.S. law and surfacing relevant case law in milliseconds.
17
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.
18
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.
19
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: Spain | Funding: $27.5M
Sherpa is the Personal Assistant Platform that learns from you and provides you all of the information you need, without having to look for it yourself.
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)pro