Top 25 Startups developing Conversational AI in USA
Jun 16, 2026
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Funding: $1.5B
Inflection AI is an artificial intelligence startup that develops personal AI chatbots.
Inflection AI is an artificial intelligence startup that develops personal AI chatbots.
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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.
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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Funding: $150.1M
Character.ai provides open-ended conversational applications that let users create characters and converse with them.
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.
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.
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.
Inbenta is a conversational AI solution designed to improve customer engagement.
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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.
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: $61M
Ema develops AI technology to empower enterprise employees by delegating repetitive tasks.
Ema develops AI technology to empower enterprise employees by delegating repetitive tasks.
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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.
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.
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.
Hi Marley is a developer of an artificially intelligent-based SMS texting platform designed to bridge the conversation.
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Funding: $30.7M
Kea drives the world’s commerce by empowering restaurants to operate more intelligently and own their relationship with customers.
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.
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.
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.
DXwand is a technology & AI passionate team curious about transforming businesses with AI to be their growth partner.
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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.
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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Funding: $4.5M
Conversational Collective Intelligence: Delivering human conversations better than humanly possible.
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
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: $3.5M
VOICEplug AI enables restaurants to offer an interactive and conversational ordering experience while reducing cost and increasing average check size per order. Our Conversational AI solution is integrated with your restaurant’s phone system, call center, drive-thru, or online ordering system, can accept orders from customers that use natural language voice conversations and commands.
VOICEplug AI enables restaurants to offer an interactive and conversational ordering experience while reducing cost and increasing average check size per order. Our Conversational AI solution is integrated with your restaurant’s phone system, call center, drive-thru, or online ordering system, can accept orders from customers that use natural language voice conversations and commands.
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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.
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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Floatbot is a SaaS-based Conversational AI platform that helps in building no-code unified Chatbots and Voicebots.
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Kamoto.AI is a SaaS platform that enables users to create, train, and monetize bespoke AI personalities while offering celebrities & influencers the chance to license authentic AI replicas of themselves for an innovative, interactive, and monetizable experience through our AI Marketplace & APIs.
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Autobiographer helps you discover, preserve, and tell your life story. It uses AI to transform your spoken stories into a written narrative that you can easily view and edit at any time.
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DataBrain AI by OpenXcell revolutionizes data analysis by enabling intuitive chats with PDFs and documents. It leverages advanced AI to extract insights, simplifying complex data for faster decisions. With its user-friendly interface, it enhances productivity, making data comprehension seamless for businesses and professionals.
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