7 Best Contextual Chatbot Startups to Watch in 2026

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Contextual Chatbot Startups

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There are 7 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $111.9m. The average funding per company in this subset is $16.0m.

Last update to the database: Apr 21, 2026. See changelog.

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[24]7.ai

4

Funding Rounds

$55.0m

Money raised

An artificial intelligence company developing chatbots and virtual agents.

Industries:

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Contextual Chatbot Natural language processing (NLP)

Location:

San Francisco San Jose, California California

Key people:

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Artificial Solutions

4

Funding Rounds

$41.8m

Money raised

An artificial intelligence company developing conversational chatbots for enterprise.

Industries:

Software as a service (SaaS) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chat (industry)

Location:

Stockholm

Key people:

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Inbenta

1

Funding Rounds

$12.0m

Money raised

Artificial intelligence company providing AI-powered chatbots and semantic search to boost self-service and e-commerce conversions.

Industries:

Recruitment Software Knowledge management tool

Location:

Sunnyvale, California California San Mateo, California

Key people:

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Intelistyle

4

Funding Rounds

$867.5k

Money raised

Intelistyle is a London-based artificial intelligence company founded by Michael Michelis and Kostas Koukoravas.

Industries:

Retail Fashion Machine learning

Location:

London

Key people:

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InteliWISE USA

1

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

Artificial Intelligence company offering smart chatbots as well as omnichannel messaging and video communications software.

Industries:

Semantic search Customer service Natural language processing (NLP)

Location:

San Francisco Sunnyvale, California Poland
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Aivo

1

Funding Rounds

$300.0k

Money raised

Artificial Intelligence company offering automated messaging and voice solutions as well as context-aware conversational chatbots

Industries:

Customer experience Customer success Smart speaker

Location:

Córdoba, Argentina Buenos Aires Argentina

Key people:

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Cognea AI

2

Funding Rounds

Cognea AI is an Artificial Intelligence company developing contextual chatbots that was bought by IBM.

Industries:

Technology Natural language processing (NLP) Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Location:

New York

Key people:

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