Top 17 Startups developing AI powered chatbots in USA

Feb 10, 2026
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Kore.ai
Funding: $223.5M
Kore.ai develops an agent-based AI platform for enterprises. It implements agent-based RAG search across various systems, workflow automation, AI agent management and governance across the enterprise and the creation of differentiated service experiences. AI agents can connect to business systems (Salesforce, SAP, Epic, and hundreds of others) and analyze data and workflows. AI agents can also extract data from files, chats, wikis and collaboration tools such as SharePoint, Slack, Confluence and Google Drive, without the need for manual searches. Multi-agent orchestration allows AI agents to collaborate, share memory and handle decision-making tasks of varying complexity.
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Character.AI
Funding: $150.1M
Character.ai provides open-ended conversational applications that let users create characters and converse with them.
3
Ushur
Funding: $107M
Ushur is a cloud-based AI company that automates service workflows in both the backend process and conversational interfaces.
4
Kasisto
Funding: $81.5M
Kasisto develops KAI Banking - conversational AI platform that is pre-loaded with thousands of banking intents and millions of banking sentences. It can fulfill requests, solve problems, predict customers’ needs, and improve performance on its own using machine learning.
5
Inbenta
Funding: $63.3M
Inbenta is a conversational AI solution designed to improve customer engagement.
6
Yurts
Funding: $58.4M
A secure, deployable, full-stack platform for LLMs
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Espressive
Funding: $53M
Espressive specializes in providing companies with artificial intelligence support for employees.
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Pypestream
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.
9
Quiq
Funding: $44M
Quiq is a customer service messaging platform that allows brands to engage with customers easily, across digital messaging channels.
10
Leena AI
Funding: $40M
Leena is smart AI powered HR companion dedicated towards engaging employees
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Satisfi Labs
Funding: $10M
Satisfi Labs creates end-to-end artificial intelligence solutions for enterprise brands who want an easier way to communicate the right information, at the right place, in real-time to their customers.
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Xor.ai
Funding: $9.3M
XOR specializes in human resource and talent acquisition workflow automation. Leveraging the cutting-edge technologies of Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, hiring automation and AI chatbots for recruiting, XOR is an enterprise-now SaaS platform that will streamline the most challenging and time-consuming processes in recruiting.
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Newo.ai
Funding: $5.9M
newo.ai creates AI-based digital employees that automate customer communications. The newo's platform allows businesses to create intelligent AI agents in 3 minutes based on automated analysis of the company's website. They can then be further customized in no-code or code-mode. Its key differentiator from competitors is its reliability and ability to address the hallucinations of language models. The system is built with processing of over 5,000 edge cases across 7 industries, ensuring stable agent performance and a 99.6% lead success rate (according to own data). Agents support omnichannel interaction (via phone, SMS, email, web chat, Slack, and Instagram). They can also simulate keyboard and mouse actions.
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Reply.ai
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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Intellectyx
Intellectyx is offering cutting-edge AI solutions and services. We specialize in generative AI, data management, digital transformation, and business intelligence, helping businesses achieve remarkable efficiency and innovation. Partner with Intellectyx to stay ahead with state-of-the-art technology and expertise.
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Floatbot
Floatbot is a SaaS-based Conversational AI platform that helps in building no-code unified Chatbots and Voicebots.
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Chatsimple
Chatsimple AI Chatbot is designed to capture leads by helping visitors with their questions using the power of AI. Our AI Chatbot is best for helping answer questions, capturing leads, and setting up meetings seamlessly.
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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