69 Best Chat Industry Startups to Watch in 2024

Reddit is an online platform for social news. It allows communities to submit links, create content, and discuss any topic of their interest.

Total Raised: $1327.10M

Last Funding: $410.00M (Series F)

Salesforce is a San Francisco-based company offering a customer relationship management platform.

Total Raised: $65.42M

Last Funding: $1.00M (Unknown)

Movable Ink is a company founded in 2010.

Total Raised: $85.00M

Last Funding: $55.00M (Series D)

Vero is an event driven email platform for customer-focused teams founded in 2012 by Chris Hexton.

Total Raised: $2.65M

Last Funding: $2.65M (Seed)

Twilio is a cloud communications platform for building SMS, voice, and messaging applications on an API built for a global scale.

Popdust is a New York-based company founded in 2010 by Philip James.

Imimobile is a global software and solutions company with a focus on developing cloud software.

GroupMe is a New York-based company founded in 2010.

HelpCrunch is a customer communication platform for providing customer support, marketing, sales, live chat, and more.

Sharechat is a company founded in 2015 by Farid Ahsan, Ankush Sachdeva and Bhanu Singh.

Public.com is a New York City and Copenhagen-based developer of an investing and social media platform which offers commission free investing with a social community around it.

Threads is a London-based company founded in 2017 by Nirvek Bhati.

Attentive is a company founded in 2016.

Friendsy is a chat company founded in 2013 by Vaidhyanath Murti.

Bliss is a company founded in 1970 by Jon Stutfield.

Sylidra is a company founded in 2016.

Ubico Labs is a California-based company founded in 2018.

Heyday is a company developing conversation AI.

Radiate is a company founded by Michael Tom.

Unifonic is a Saudi-based cloud communication startup.

Profitboss is a chat company founded by Adam Guild.

Rebel is a company founded in 2023 by Marc Benioff.

B2Chat is a Colombia-based company founded by Jaime Andrés Gutiérrez.

Branch is an information technology company that is building a virtual headquarters for remote teams.

LinkedIn is a social networking platform for people in professional occupations. It was founded in 2002 and was acquired by Microsoft in 2016. It is located in Sunnyvale, California.

IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation.

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Houseparty is a San Francisco-based developer of a group video chat application for face-to-face social media and connection.

Alibaba Group is a Hangzhou-based group of e-commerce businesses founded in 1999 by Jack Ma, Joseph Tsai, Lucy Peng, and Shan Dai.

Tinder is a company founded in 2012 by Sean Rad, Justin Mateen and Jonathan Badeen.

A software company making a workplace email communication platform for remote and office work.

Sailthru is a company founded in 2008 by Neil Capel, Ian White and Chris Chapman.

Yalochat is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2015 by Javier Mata.

Kustomer is a customer service software founded in 2015 by Jeremy Suriel.

Plivo is a cloud-based communications platform as a service (CPaaS) company headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company allows software developers to integrate phone calls, text messages, and other communication functions into their applications using its web service APIs.

Pusher is a company founded in 2011.

Postscript is a SMS marketing platform for ecommerce companies founded in 2018 by Adam Turner, Alex Beller and Colin Turner.

Whispir is a company founded in 2002 by Jeromy Wells.

Airtime is an app designed to gather people together to watch videos, listen to music, and hang out with friends live.

Parler is a company founded in 2018 by John Matze, Rebekah Mercer and Jared Thomson.

Rasa is a company that offers a conversational AI platform for customized conversations at scale.

Herbie.ai is a multi-national conversational AI company.

Vozy is a company founded in 2015 by Ricardo Marín.

Yesware developed a software toolkit for sales teams.

Meebo is an instant messaging client founded in 2005 by Seth Sternberg, Sandy Jen, Elaine Wherry and Seth Sternberg.

Conversocial is a company founded in 2009 by Joshua March.

Gather is a video-calling platform that combines video conferencing with a two-dimensional video game-like world.

Ada is a brand interaction platform that enables the automation of conversations with customers and employees via an AI-based chatbot.

An artificial intelligence company developing contextual chatbots for enterprises.

Shopmatic is a Singapore-based company.

360 SMS APP is an India-based company founded in 2012 by Deepak Kushwaha.