Top 102 Natural Language Processing startups

Updated: Feb 27, 2026
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These companies develop new language processing technologies, train large language models, create NLP platforms and APIs or specific applications that allow to understand and generate human language.
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OpenAI
Country: USA | Funding: $189B
OpenAI develops generative AI models: GPT for language, DALLE for images and Sora for video. The company's main product is the chatbot ChatGPT, which is used as a personal smart assistant and in enterprise customer support and knowledge management systems via APIs. The company also conducts scientific research aimed at achieving artificial general intelligence. The company's initial goal was the security and openness of artificial intelligence, but it has gradually moved toward closing and commercializing its ML and NLP technologies. According to CEO Sam Altman, AGI is achieving a certain amount of revenue. The primary OpenAI's investor is Microsoft and it has strategic partnership with NVidia. OpenAI is also a primary AI provider for the US Department of War
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AI21 Labs
Country: Israel | Funding: $626.5M
AI21 Labs specializes in developing open-source enterprise LLM models named Jamba. The startup competes with AI giants by focusing on enterprise market and local secure deployment. Jamba models are characterized by high performance and reliability, as well as the ability to be customized to meet the individual needs of each organization. Jamba's 256 KB context window quickly processes large documents, from financial reports and contracts to searching across entire knowledge bases. AI21 Labs also provides a platform that enables enterprises to develop their own generative AI applications and agents based on Jamba models. Maestro agents can extract, analyze and synthesize data from various sources, delivering accurate and transparent results.
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Hugging Face
Country: France | Funding: $395.2M
Hugging Face is a platform where the machine learning community collaborates on models, datasets and applications. It contains a vast catalog of open-source ML models, frameworks, inference providers, datasets, libraries and apps. It also allows users to combine machine learning models and datasets and create collaborative projects/Spaces for developing AI systems. An enterprise version of this workspace is available for on-premises deployment. The platform hosts a community that provides opportunities for networking, knowledge sharing and building own ML portfolio and reputation. Hugging Face also develops own ML tools, including the Transformers library, designed for natural language processing applications.
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Mistral AI
Country: France | Funding: €3B
Mistral is a leading European AI company that develops own LLM models and provides AI products and solutions for the enterprise. The startup competes with American AI giants by focusing on the European market and local specifics/languages. Furthermore, Mistral is committed to open source - nearly all of its models are open. The company has created the online assistant Le Chat, which is available on the web and mobile app, free and by subscription. It also offers businesses the AI ​​Studio platform for creating and managing the full lifecycle of enterprise models and agents, Mistral Code - AI-powered software development system and Mistral Compute - European AI cloud that combines high-performance GPUs, ready-to-use orchestration and advanced model building tools into a single, fully integrated platform.
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Cohere
Country: Canada | Funding: $1.7B
Cohere offers an API to add language processing to any system.
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Moonshot AI
Country: China | Funding: $1.6B
MoonShot AI seeks solutions in transforming energy into intelligence and generating intelligence with users through its product offerings.
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Fractal Analytics
Country: USA | Funding: $862.7M
Fractal partners with Fortune 500 companies to power every human decision in the enterprise.
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DeepSeek
Country: China
DeepSeek is specializing in the development of large-scale open-source language models. The company unexpectedly grew out of a Chinese hedge fund and disrupted the AI ​​market with its technologies, which significantly reduced the cost of training and inference of LLM models. These technologies include Mixture of Experts - a fragmented model splitting into individual "experts" so that only a small portion of the model could be used for each task. Unlike traditional language models, which rely heavily on supervised fine-tuning, DeepSeek relies primarily on reinforcement learning. It also came up with the idea of ​​using distilled data from OpenAI models for training. DeepSeek provides its online chatbot and an API for business. Its responses are often criticized due to Chinese censorship.
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Aleph Alpha
Country: Germany | Funding: $642.8M
Aleph Alpha provides enterprise and public sector AI solutions based on own stack Pharia that supports a wide variety of open-source LLMS and includes PhariaAssistant (that enables UI chat, search, translation), PhariaStudio (development environment that allowss AI engineers to build, debug, and evaluate AI applications in collaboration with domain experts), PhariaOS (operating system that dynamically scales AI workloads across on-premise and cloud instances), PhariaCatch (that allows to create high-quality datasets to support AI system development while minimizing annotator bias). The company also aims to revolutionize the accessibility and usability of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in Europe. It intends to solve the the black-box nature of GenAI and develops methods for inspecting, understanding and validating its responses.
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Gong.io
Country: Israel | Funding: $583M
Gong.io has built a tool that uses natural language processing and machine learning to help train and suggest information to sales people and other customer service reps
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Verbit
Country: Israel | Funding: $569M
Verbit is using smart AI technology to disrupt transcription and captioning with automation and speed.
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SoundHound
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.
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Superhuman
Country: Ukraine | Funding: $400M
Grammarly is a digital writing assistant that helps people write more clearly and effectively.
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Algolia
Country: France | Funding: $334.2M
A powerful hosted search engine API, Algolia provides product teams with the resources & tools they need to create fast, relevant search.
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Writer
Country: USA | Funding: $326M
Writer is the AI writing assistant for the world’s smartest brands. We help brand owners and content leaders scale their messaging, communication style, and must-have language, no matter who’s writing. Top brands like Twitter, Intuit, and McKesson have standardized their content creation on Writer.
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TaskUs
Country: USA | Funding: $279M
TaskUs is a customer care and back office support company that helps companies provide exceptional experiences for their customers. TaskUs provides AI training and social network content moderation services.
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Mobvoi
Country: China | Funding: $264.9M
Mobvoi is an AI company that developed Chinese voice recognition, natural language processing, and vertical search technology in-house.
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Primer
Country: USA | Funding: $237M
Primer builds machines that can read and write, automating the analysis of very large datasets. It trawls thousands of sources online, using natural language processing to read and try to make sense of the vast amount of “open source intelligence”.
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Observe.AI
Country: USA | Funding: $214M
Observe.AI is building a Voice AI platform for call centers. Its first product "Agent Assist"​ empowers call center agents to do their jobs better. The platform provides the agent with real-time feedback on customer sentiment and guides them on next best action during the customer call. The AI platform listens to the call stream in real time, uses deep learning and natural language processing (NLP) to understand the context and generates suggestions and guidance for the agent.
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Invoca
Country: USA | Funding: $201.5M
Invoca provides complete call intelligence for business. Its machine learning algorithms analyze live phone conversations to understand caller intent and outcomes. Marketers can utilize these insights to make smarter decisions on everything from PPC bidding strategy to digital retargeting audiences.
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Cognigy
Country: Germany | Funding: $169M
Cognigy is the leading Enterprise Conversational AI Platform for customer & employee support process automation.
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Typeface
Country: USA | Funding: $165M
Typeface is a generative AI application for creating enterprise content.
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Lilt
Country: USA | Funding: $162.9M
Lilt is a technology company that develops an artificial intelligence-powered enterprise language software.
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Liulishuo
Country: China | Funding: $138.9M
Through cutting-edge AI technology & innovative product design, Liulishuo helps users learn English more efficiently and communicate with the world.
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Jasper
Country: Canada | Funding: $131M
Jasper is the AI Content Platform that helps you and your team break through creative blocks to create amazing, original content 10X faster.
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Notable
Country: USA | Funding: $119.2M
Notable uses AI to automate and digitize every physician-patient interaction. It automtes recording of doctor’s visits and updating of electronic health records. The company has developed a technology that uses natural language processing and voice recognition to automatically record doctor-patient interactions and structure the data for inclusion in a patient’s medical records.
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PolyAI
Country: UK | Funding: $116M
Poly AI develops a machine learning platform for conversational artificial intelligence.
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Signal AI
Country: UK | Funding: $101.6M
Signal AI is an artificial intelligence company that transforms the world’s information into accessible, actionable business knowledge.
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Hyro
Country: Israel | Funding: $95M
Hyro uses AI to facilitate text and voice conversations across the web, call centers and apps between healthcare organizations and their clients.
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Klarity
Country: USA | Funding: $90.4M
Klarity is a legal company that accelerates contract review using Artificial Intelligence to match one's company legal policy.
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Vannevar Labs
Country: USA | Funding: $87M
Developer of products for the security industry. It develops AI-based solutions for counter-terrorism missions tackling national security problems. It also uses natural language processing and caters mainly to the defense and intelligence industries.
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DefinedCrowd
Country: USA | Funding: $78.6M
DefinedCrowd develops a Crowd-as-a-Service intelligent data platform intended to accelerate enterprise data training and modeling.
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WisdomAI
Country: USA | Funding: $73M
WisdomAI offers enterprise AI analytics chatbot that answers business-related questions based on structured and unstructured data (as promised - without hallucinations). The company uses a clever method to address the problem of hallucinations. It doesn't use LLM to write answers, instead LLM is used only to write the query code that will be sent to the data warehouse. Therefore, if the LLM is hallucinating, it will simply write a wrong query and the user will recognize this from the result. WisdomAI has developed its own logic, which it calls the "enterprise context layer" and examines customer data to understand it and generate query code.
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AutogenAI
Country: UK | Funding: $61.7M
AutogenAI provides cutting edge natural language processing solutions to enable companies to write compelling content for bids.
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Eigen Technologies
Country: UK | Funding: $59.4M
Eigen is a research-driven AI company specialising in NLP for businesses in finance, law and professional services. Eigen automates the extraction and classification of information from documents. Their simple, flexible Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology accurately extracts information from diverse types of documents at scale and can be integrated into our clients’ workflows.
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Neuron7
Country: USA | Funding: $58.2M
Neuron7.ai is a service Intelligence platform that enables companies to deliver crucial service outcomes. Neuron7 uses natural language processing to guide users step by step, analyzing metadata from knowledge bases, product documentation, customer support call logs and transcripts to create a “collective intelligence” that can help diagnose and solve problems.
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Sesamm
Country: France | Funding: €50.5M
SESAMm is a fintech company that specializes in big data and artificial intelligence for investment.
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Kognitos
Country: USA | Funding: $53.3M
Kognitos is an AI platform designed to automate business processes.
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Regie
Country: USA | Funding: $50.8M
Regie is using OpenAI’s GPT-3 text-generating system to create sales and marketing content for brands
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Pypestream
Country: USA | 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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Deepset
Country: Germany | Funding: $45.6M
Next-level semantic search for enterprises fueled by latest NLP and open-source
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Spectrum Labs
Country: USA | Funding: $45M
Spectrum helps gaming, dating, marketplaces and social platforms recognize and respond to toxic online behavior across any language.
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Quiq
Country: USA | 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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CalypsoAI
Country: USA | Funding: $43.2M
Calypso AI provides a platform that allows organizations to accelerate their use of language models. Its solution protects sensitive information from unauthorized access via public large language models, detects and prevents malicious attacks deployed through generative AI tools and verifies LLM output to enhance decision-making.
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Textio
Country: USA | Funding: $42.5M
Augmented writing is fueled by massive quantities of data, contributed by companies across industries and around the world. Textio’s predictive engine uses this data to uncover meaningful patterns in language, guiding you to stronger communication and better business outcomes.
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Cinnamon
Country: Japan | Funding: $42.4M
Cinnamon is an AI startup that develops products aimed at reducing the amount of time people spend on mundane tasks. Its Flax Scanner takes lengthy documents and extracts only the most pertinent information, while Lapis Engine is an natural language processing (NLP) based search engine designed to give recommendations for applications such as e-commerce or a recruiting platform, and Scuro Bot is a chatbot which can also process natural languages.
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Sarvam AI
Country: India | Funding: ₹3.4B
Sarvam AI is building large language models with support for Indian languages and creating a platform that will allow businesses to build with LLMs
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Skelter Labs
Country: South Korea | Funding: $39.9M
Skelter Labs is an artificial intelligence technology company developing innovative machine intelligence technology.
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Lengoo
Country: Germany | Funding: $36.6M
lengoo is the future of translation. A full-service technology platform for customer-specific machine translation using Neural networks.
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Stockmark
Country: Japan | Funding: ¥5.4B
StockMark provides business decision support with text mining and AI.
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