Top 20 Startups developing Conversational AI in USA

Nov 11, 2025
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Funding: $1.5B
Inflection AI is an artificial intelligence startup that develops personal AI chatbots.
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Funding: $223.5M
Kore.ai specializes in AI-rich conversational solutions designed specifically for enterprises.
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Funding: $150.1M
Character.ai provides open-ended conversational applications that let users create characters and converse with them.
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Funding: $74.4M
Level AI is a platform for businesses to automate tedious workflows and transform customer experience.
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Funding: $70.2M
Rasa builds the standard infrastructure layer for conversational AI. It supplies the standard infrastructure for conversational AI, providing the tools required to build resilient contextual assistants.
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Funding: $63.3M
Inbenta is a conversational AI solution designed to improve customer engagement.
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Funding: $61M
Ema develops AI technology to empower enterprise employees by delegating repetitive tasks.
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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.
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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.
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Funding: $44M
Quiq is a customer service messaging platform that allows brands to engage with customers easily, across digital messaging channels.
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Funding: $41.7M
Hi Marley is a developer of an artificially intelligent-based SMS texting platform designed to bridge the conversation.
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Funding: $17M
Kea drives the world’s commerce by empowering restaurants to operate more intelligently and own their relationship with customers.
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Funding: $16.5M
Orbita provides software to improve patient engagement in digital healthcare through voice-first and conversational AI solutions.
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Funding: $12.6M
Peerlogic is a voice-based conversational intelligence software designed for the dental industry. Powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Peerlogic works by identifying hidden revenue and providing call data insights that result in business revenue growth.
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Funding: $10.7M
DXwand is a technology & AI passionate team curious about transforming businesses with AI to be their growth partner.
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Funding: $4.5M
Conversational Collective Intelligence: Delivering human conversations better than humanly possible.
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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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Funding: $250K
VoiceStar.ai develops Voice and AI technology for foodservice
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Funding: $2M
Dasha is a conversational AI as a service platform. It provides developers with tools to create human-like, deeply conversational AI applications. The apps can be used for call center agent replacement, text chat or to add conversational voice interfaces to mobile apps or IOT devices.
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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