Top 37 Startups developing AI-powered Virtual Assistants

Updated: Dec 30, 2025
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These startups develop AI virtual assistants - cognitive (usually voice-enabled) software agents that can perform tasks or services for consumers or professionals.
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Dazzle
Country: USA | Funding: $8M
Dazzle AI is a tech company that offers a "next gen" AI personal assistant, that (as advertised) closes the gap between what people want and what they can do with AI.
2
Inflection
Country: USA | Funding: $1.5B
Inflection AI is an artificial intelligence startup that develops personal AI chatbots.
3
Harvey
Country: USA | Funding: $1B
Harvey develops AI assistant for legal/knowledge workers. It allows professional service providers, and Fortune 500 companies delegate complex legal tasks in natural language. It's secure cloud service allows to upload, store and analyze thousands of documents to use it as a context. This data is enriched by 150 legal data sources across the globe. Lawyers can design and deploy multi-model agents tailored to firm’s expertise and deliver consistent, high-quality results at scale to enhance drafting and editing, email management and knowledge sharing in the Microsoft office tools. Harvey was one of OpenAI Startup Fund’s first investments, so it primary uses its API.
4
Glean
Country: USA | Funding: $768.2M
Glean is developing the Work AI Platform, which consists of three modules: Glean Assistant, Glean Agents and Glean Search. Assistant is a personal assistant for employee that provides access to company knowledge, web data, and personal context, enabling faster, more informed decisions. Glean Agents is a system for creating, deploying, organizing and managing AI-powered agents. Agents can be created in conversation mode or using the visual mo-code builder. Its connectors automatically sync them with corporate data. Glean Search is an enterprise search that understands user's context and provides unified, secure access to corporate databases. Results are displayed in real time and respect permissions, so everyone sees only what they need.
5
Rokid
Country: China | Funding: $643.9M
Rokid is an innovative technology company specializing in robotics research and AI development. It develops Pebble virtual assistant.
6
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.
8
Ada Health
Country: Germany | Funding: $189.5M
Ada Health offers a new approach to personalized health, supported by a sophisticated artificial intelligence technology. Ada its conversational health assistant to empower people with personalized medical insights and identify appropriate next steps.
9
Suki
Country: USA | Funding: $165M
Suki makes an AI-powered and voice-enabled digital assistant for doctors
10
Character.AI
Country: USA | Funding: $150.1M
Character.ai provides open-ended conversational applications that let users create characters and converse with them.
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Cleo
Country: UK | Funding: $138.8M
Cleo is a developer of an app and chatbot designed as a financial assistant.
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Plum Fintech
Country: UK | Funding: $110.4M
Plum Fintech develops personal savings assistant solutions for customers in the United Kingdom.
13
Jane.ai
Country: USA | Funding: $87.5M
Jane is an artificial intelligence platform that makes all of your company's information accessible through chat.
14
Medal
Country: Netherlands | Funding: $85.5M
Medal is a developer of a short-form gaming video clips platform to share digital game clips and highlights with gamers.
15
Intuition Robotics
Country: Israel | Funding: $83M
Intuition designs social companion technologies that positively impacts the lives of older adults. Its technology utilizes artificial intelligence to develop robots, enabling older adults to connect seamlessly with family and friends, making technology accessible and intuitive, and proactively promoting an active lifestyle.
16
Druid
Country: Romania | Funding: $81.6M
DRUID is a conversational AI platform for enterprise companies that allows easy development of intelligent virtual assistants.
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11xAI
Country: UK | Funding: $76M
11xAI builds automated digital workers that can be used in lieu of human employees. It has built an AI sales development representative called Alice and plans to create James, focused on automated talent acquisition and Bob, targeting automated human resources work in the upcoming years.
18
AiCure
Country: USA | Funding: $68.8M
AiCure's intelligent medical assistant, IMA, visually controls that medication is taken.
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Wysdom
Country: Canada | Funding: $67.1M
Wysdom develops full-stack virtual assistant platform. Connect to customers, answer questions, complete purchases, and transact any time with a trusted cognitive enterprise care solution over social, web chat, and IVR.
20
Clinc
Country: USA | 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.
21
Sherpa
Country: Spain | Funding: $27.5M
Sherpa is the Personal Assistant Platform that learns from you and provides you all of the information you need, without having to look for it yourself.
22
Josh.ai
Country: USA | Funding: $22.6M
Josh.ai is an AI platform that provides smart home automation space services.
23
Orbita
Country: USA | Funding: $16.5M
Orbita provides software to improve patient engagement in digital healthcare through voice-first and conversational AI solutions.
24
German Autolabs
Country: Germany | Funding: €10M
German Autolabs is building the world's first digital assistant for drivers, making access to apps and services while on the road safer and more convenient.
25
Highlight
Country: USA | Funding: $10.1M
Highlight is an AI company that offers an on-screen virtual assistant that helps AI models understand desktop activity.
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Synthflow AI
Country: Germany | Funding: $9M
Synthflow AI empowers businesses to build customizable, no-code AI voice assistants that handle a variety of tasks.
27
Bee AI
Country: UK | Funding: $7M
At Bee AI, we're inspired by the unparalleled efficiency and coordination of nature's most impressive pollinators - bees.
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Bot M.D.
Country: USA | Funding: $6.6M
Bot MD is a smartphone based A.I. Clinical assistant for doctors. The company provides doctors with instantaneous responses to clinical questions and automatically transcribes their dictated case notes.
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Kauz.ai
Country: Germany | Funding: €2.3M
Kauz.ai is the vendor and developer of aiStudio - a self-service platform for building and maintaining Ai-assistants in companies of every size.
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Roxy
Country: USA | Funding: $2.2M
Roxy creates intelligent, conversational devices for hotels and local businesses, providing patrons with on-site information and services.
31
Dave AI
Country: India | Funding: ₹20M
DaveAI creates Virtual Sales Avatars for brands
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Aiva Health
Country: USA | Funding: $250K
Aiva is a patient voice assistant, which specializes in hands-free communication between patients and caregivers.
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Huli
Country: USA | Funding: $200K
HULI creates human-like virtual agents powered by GenAI, that seamlessly integrate into any business and any languages, optimizing communication and improving customer service.
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PMOtto.ai
Country: Denmark
PMOtto.ai can help and advise project co-workers with their daily tasks by using Machine Learning algorithms and an friendly chat-bot user interface.
35
AGI Inc
Country: USA
This company is called AGI and claims to be "building useful AGI for everyday life." But in reality, it's creating an agent called AGI-0, which performs tasks on your computer and smartphone (for example, it can make restaurant reservations, book hotels, schedule meetings, etc.). Of course, it's not AGI, but rather an add-on to existing LLMs. However, it can run on any platform - use apps on Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, fulfill tasks in web browser. The company also offers a paid API for creating custom agents, which, in particular simplifies enables secure payment processing for e-commerce. The company does conduct some research in areas such as reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems and natural language understanding, but with the sole practical goal of improving the agent.
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giftsAI
Country: USA
GiftsAI is an advanced AI-powered gifting assistant designed to make finding the perfect gift effortless, fast, and deeply personal. Instead of spending hours searching through endless options, users simply describe who they're shopping for, whether it’s a friend, partner, coworker, or family member and GiftsAI instantly analyzes the person’s interests, personality traits, relationship to the giver and the occasion. With this information, the tool generates a curated list of thoughtful and relevant gift recommendations that feel genuinely customized.
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Nesh
Country: USA
The Smart Assistant for Oil and Gas. She helps Oil and Gas companies make better and faster decisions, by organizing the collective knowledge within the company and making it effortlessly accessible. Imagine if Siri or Alexa went to school, got an advanced degree in Petroleum Engineering and Geoscience, then went to work in the Oilfield for several years, attended technical conferences, read journals and books; you would have Nesh.
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