Top 13 AI Booktech startups

Updated: Feb 04, 2026
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These startups develop Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning tools for book discovery, smart recommendations, book translation and voice narration, reader interest and feedback analyzing.
1
ElevenLabs
Country: USA | Funding: $781M
ElevenLabs develops voice AI models for content creators and publishers. It has created two platforms: the Agents Platform for improving customer engagement and Creative Platform for creating AI-powered voice content. The platform's capabilities include converting text into realistic speech in over 70 languages, configuring, deploying, and monitoring conversational agents, creating studio-quality tracks in any genre and style, transcribing any audio with the highest accuracy, and creating an exact copy of any voice. All platform capabilities are accessible via an API. ElevenLabs is used to create films, advertising, audiobooks and podcasts.
2
Inkitt
Country: Germany | Funding: $117M
Inkitt is a digital publishing platform that uses a computer algorithm to predict book success based on reader behavior.
3
Iris.ai
Country: Norway | Funding: $28.6M
Iris is an AI Science Assistant, helping R&D double productivity when seeking out new opportunities in published research. Iris.ai uses a combination of keyword extraction, word embeddings, neural topic modeling, word importance based similarity of document metrics and hierarchical topic modeling. The approach is mainly unsupervised but we utilize an evaluated annotation set from our community of AI Trainers for benchmarking and improving our tools.
4
Ello
Country: USA | Funding: $15.5M
The world’s first AI reading coach that works with real books.
5
StoryFit
Country: USA | Funding: $13.1M
StoryFit puts the power of artificial intelligence in the hands of publishers and studios. StoryFit is designed to predict how well an audience will receive a book before it's even published. StoryFit is AI technology that analyzes book manuscripts and movie scripts to identify hits for publishers and studios
6
Lumi
Country: USA | Funding: $4M
Lumi creates AI platform that lets anyone create Comics or Manga
7
Deepzen
Country: UK | Funding: £2.8M
Deepzen provides sector-specific voice solutions to create audiobooks and voiceovers through ground-breaking technology. Deepzen produces and co-publishes audiobooks using artificial intelligence that syntheses the human voice to replicate emotions and intonations.
8
Lex
Country: USA | Funding: $2.8M
Lex develops modern word processor that enables a radically new way to write.
9
Kadaxis
Country: USA
Kadaxis uses data science to improve book discovery across the publishing value chain, for authors (at AuthorCheckpoint with metadata and marketing tools), publishers (with metadata optimisation and data APIs) and readers (at experimental book discovery site BookDiscovery).
10
AnyBook
Country: Israel | Funding: $2M
AnyBook is a collaborative platform that allows its users to find, trade, borrow, and share books on their tablets, phones, and computers.
11
Jellybooks
Country: UK | Funding: £25K
Jellybooks helps authors and publishers develop traction by identifying and reaching out to the most influential readers.
12
Tolino
Country: Germany
Tolino's ebook reading app features text to speech, which will allow users the ability to have their books read aloud.
13
Storybooks
Country: USA
Storybooks uses AI to help create personalized stories that build literacy, creativity, and social-emotional intelligence.
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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