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1) Attentive

1) Attentive

Attentive is a tailored mobile messaging platform for forward-thinking companies and brands.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • City: New York
  • Started in: 2016
  • Founders: Andrew Jones, Brian Long, Ethan Lo
  • Number of employees: 501-1000
  • Funding amount: $863,000,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 7
  • Number of investors: 19

You can find their website here.

2) Fireflies.ai

2) Fireflies.ai

Fireflies.ai provides an AI Meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and organizes meeting notes in a searchable format.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • City: San Francisco
  • Started in: 2016
  • Founders: Krish Ramineni, Sam Udotong
  • Number of employees: 51-100
  • Funding amount: $19,000,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 5
  • Number of investors: 12

You can find their website here.

3) Blind

3) Blind

Blind is a private workplace network where vetted professionals meet to discuss the issues that matter most to them.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • City: Berkeley
  • Started in: 2013
  • Founders: Kyum Kim, Sunguk Moon
  • Number of employees: 51-100
  • Funding amount: $61,825,004
  • Number of funding rounds: 7
  • Number of investors: 9

You can find their website here.

4) Wickr

4) Wickr

Wickr is a top-secret messaging program that allows users to send and receive top-secret messages, photos, videos, audios, and files for free.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • City: San Francisco
  • Started in: 2011
  • Founders: Chris Howell, Kara Coppa, Nico Sell, Robert Statica
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Funding amount: $73,008,935
  • Number of funding rounds: 4
  • Number of investors: 11

You can find their website here.

5) Intercom

5) Intercom

Businesses can use a Conversational Relationship Platform to help them create consumer relationships by providing tailored, messenger-based experiences.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • City: San Francisco
  • Started in: 2011
  • Founders: Ciaran Lee, David Barrett, Des Traynor, Eoghan McCabe
  • Number of employees: 501-1000
  • Funding amount: $291,820,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 9
  • Number of investors: 34

You can find their website here.

6) Magic

6) Magic

Magic offers an on-demand personal assistant service that is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week via SMS.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • City: San Francisco
  • Started in: 2014
  • Founders: Aaron Kemmer, Benjamin Godlove, David Merriman, Michael Rubin, Mike Chen, Nic Novak
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Funding amount: $12,120,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 2
  • Number of investors: 3

You can find their website here.

7) Podium

7) Podium

Podium is a customer communication tool for firms who deal with local customers.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • City: Lehi
  • Started in: 2014
  • Founders: Dennis Steele, Eric Rea
  • Number of employees: 501-1000
  • Funding amount: $218,120,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 6
  • Number of investors: 10

You can find their website here.

8) IntelePeer

8) IntelePeer

The NEW Customer Experience is Powered by IntelePeer

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • City: San Mateo
  • Started in: 2003
  • Founders: Haydar Haba
  • Number of employees: 101-250
  • Funding amount: $252,139,097
  • Number of funding rounds: 10
  • Number of investors: 9

You can find their website here.

9) WhatsApp

9) WhatsApp

WhatsApp is a free instant messaging subscription service for cellphones that is proprietary, cross-platform, and cross-platform.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • City: Santa Clara
  • Started in: 2009
  • Founders: Brian Acton, Jan Koum
  • Number of employees: 1001-5000
  • Funding amount: $60,250,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 3
  • Number of investors: 1

You can find their website here.

10) Zipwhip

10) Zipwhip

Zipwhip is a text-enabled phone number service that enables people and organizations have more successful interactions.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • City: Seattle
  • Started in: 2007
  • Founders: Anthony Riemma, John Larson, John Lauer, Michael Smyers
  • Number of employees: 101-250
  • Funding amount: $91,100,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 5
  • Number of investors: 8

You can find their website here.

11) goTenna

11) goTenna

By constructing intelligent and scalable mobile mesh networks, GoTenna is promoting universal access to connection.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • City: Brooklyn
  • Started in: 2012
  • Founders: Daniela Perdomo, Jorge Perdomo
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Funding amount: $40,800,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 5
  • Number of investors: 18

You can find their website here.

12) SparkPost

12) SparkPost

SparkPost is an email delivery and optimization tool that allows businesses to send and analyze emails.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • City: Columbia
  • Started in: 2008
  • Founders: George Schlossnagle, Theo Schlossnagle
  • Number of employees: 251-500
  • Funding amount: $273,499,998
  • Number of funding rounds: 7
  • Number of investors: 6

You can find their website here.

13) Exotel

13) Exotel

For small and medium businesses in India, Exotel offers cloud telephony services such as virtual phone lines and telephony applications.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: India
  • City: Bengaluru
  • Started in: 2011
  • Founders: Shivakumar Ganesan
  • Number of employees: 101-250
  • Funding amount: $12,294,124
  • Number of funding rounds: 4
  • Number of investors: 8

You can find their website here.

14) Deputy

14) Deputy

Deputy is an employee management application that streamlines scheduling, timesheets, assignments, and communication in the office.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Australia
  • City: Surry Hills
  • Started in: 2008
  • Founders: Ashik Ahmed, Steve Shelley
  • Number of employees: 251-500
  • Funding amount: $106,033,254
  • Number of funding rounds: 2
  • Number of investors: 4

You can find their website here.

15) Sendbird

15) Sendbird

Sendbird is a messaging-as-a-service API that allows mobile apps and websites to send chat, audio, and video messages.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • City: San Mateo
  • Started in: 2013
  • Founders: Brandon Y Jeon, Forest Lee, Harry Kim, John S. Kim
  • Number of employees: 101-250
  • Funding amount: $220,720,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 7
  • Number of investors: 19

You can find their website here.

16) Yellow Messenger

16) Yellow Messenger

Yellow Messenger is a software platform that may be used as a consumer engagement channel for businesses using artificial intelligence.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: India
  • City: Bengaluru
  • Started in: 2016
  • Founders: Anik Das, Jaya Kishore Reddy Gollareddy, Raghu Kumar, Rashid Khan
  • Number of employees: 251-500
  • Funding amount: $24,000,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 3
  • Number of investors: 3

You can find their website here.

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17) Well Health

17) Well Health

Well Health is the most popular patient communication platform, allowing clinicians and patients to communicate by text, email, phone, and live chat.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • City: Santa Barbara
  • Started in: 2015
  • Founders: Guillaume De Zwirek, Joe Tischler
  • Number of employees: 101-250
  • Funding amount: $45,100,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 5
  • Number of investors: 11

You can find their website here.

18) Snapchat

18) Snapchat

In industrialized nations such as North America and Europe, Snapchat is one of the most popular social networking apps.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • City: Pacific Palisades
  • Started in: 2011
  • Number of employees: 1001-5000
  • Funding amount: $59,999,934
  • Number of funding rounds: 2
  • Number of investors: 1

You can find their website here.

19) Kore.ai

19) Kore.ai

Conversational and digital platforms and products based on AI that automate and optimize enterprise digital interactions.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • City: Orlando
  • Started in: 2013
  • Founders: Raj Koneru
  • Number of employees: 251-500
  • Funding amount: $30,779,017
  • Number of funding rounds: 3
  • Number of investors: 2

You can find their website here.

20) Snapcommerce

20) Snapcommerce

Snapcommerce is a shopping website that connects budget-conscious shoppers with the best offers on the market.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Canada
  • City: Toronto
  • Started in: 2016
  • Founders: Henry Shi, Hussein Fazal
  • Number of employees: 51-100
  • Funding amount: $101,400,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 5
  • Number of investors: 17

You can find their website here.

21) Bobble AI

21) Bobble AI

Bobble AI is a keyboard discussion media platform that creates customised content for its customers using artificial intelligence.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: India
  • City: Haryana
  • Started in: 2015
  • Founders: Ankit Prasad, Mohd Wassem, Rahul Prasad
  • Number of employees: 51-100
  • Funding amount: $13,275,213
  • Number of funding rounds: 5
  • Number of investors: 3

You can find their website here.

22) Telegram Messenger

22) Telegram Messenger

Telegram is a cloud-based messaging service for mobile and desktop that prioritizes privacy, security, and speed.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United Arab Emirates
  • City: Dubai
  • Started in: 2013
  • Founders: Nikolai Durov, Pavel Durov
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Funding amount: $1,000,000,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 1
  • Number of investors: 2

You can find their website here.

23) Hike

23) Hike

Hike is a company that creates and develops mobile messaging apps.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: India
  • City: New Delhi
  • Started in: 2012
  • Founders: Kavin Bharti Mittal
  • Number of employees: 251-500
  • Funding amount: $261,000,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 5
  • Number of investors: 10

You can find their website here.

24) Autopilot

24) Autopilot

Turn on better marketing for your company. Ecommerce's Best Marketing and Customer Data Platform

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Australia
  • City: Sydney
  • Started in: 2015
  • Founders: Chris Sharkey, Michael Sharkey, Tim Howard
  • Number of employees: 51-100
  • Funding amount: $33,860,271
  • Number of funding rounds: 5
  • Number of investors: 10

You can find their website here.

25) Flock

25) Flock

Flock is a real-time messaging and collaboration app for teams that improves productivity by speeding up and simplifying communication.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: India
  • City: Mumbai
  • Started in: 2014
  • Founders: Bhavin Turakhia
  • Number of employees: 101-250
  • Funding amount: $45,000,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 3
  • Number of investors: 2

You can find their website here.

26) TigerConnect

26) TigerConnect

TigerConnect is a collaborative platform for healthcare that improves clinical operations and systems.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • City: Santa Monica
  • Started in: 2010
  • Founders: Andrew Brooks M.D., Brad Brooks
  • Number of employees: 101-250
  • Funding amount: $100,400,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 6
  • Number of investors: 17

You can find their website here.

27) Stream

27) Stream

In a fraction of the time and cost of developing in-house, Stream creates chat and feeds for apps at scale.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • City: Boulder
  • Started in: 2014
  • Founders: Thierry Schellenbach, Tommaso Barbugli
  • Number of employees: 101-250
  • Funding amount: $58,058,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 6
  • Number of investors: 25

You can find their website here.

28) Vibes

28) Vibes

Vibes is a software platform for mobile marketing.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United States
  • City: Chicago
  • Started in: 1998
  • Founders: Alex Campbell, Jack Philbin
  • Number of employees: 101-250
  • Funding amount: $60,000,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 2
  • Number of investors: 2

You can find their website here.

29) Rocket.Chat

29) Rocket.Chat

Rocket.Chat is a platform that allows you to increase internal and external communication in a safe and controlled setting.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Brazil
  • City: Porto Alegre
  • Started in: 2016
  • Founders: Gabriel Engel
  • Number of employees: 51-100
  • Funding amount: $26,900,313
  • Number of funding rounds: 3
  • Number of investors: 9

You can find their website here.

30) Haptik

30) Haptik

One of the largest Conversational AI firms in the world, with over 100 million devices and over 3 billion conversations handled.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: India
  • City: Mumbai
  • Started in: 2013
  • Founders: Aakrit Vaish, Swapan Rajdev
  • Number of employees: 101-250
  • Funding amount: $12,200,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 2
  • Number of investors: 3

You can find their website here.

31) unifonic

31) unifonic

unifonic is a customer interaction tool for emerging markets businesses that makes cloud communications more accessible.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Saudi Arabia
  • City: Riyadh
  • Started in: 2006
  • Founders: Ahmed Hamdan, Hassan Hamdan
  • Number of employees: 101-250
  • Funding amount: $21,000,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 1
  • Number of investors: 5

You can find their website here.

32) Landbot

32) Landbot

Landbot is a straightforward solution for creating conversational websites and increasing lead conversion.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Spain
  • City: Barcelona
  • Started in: 2015
  • Founders: Antoni Espinosa, Cristobal Villar, Fernando Guirao, Jiaqi Pan
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Funding amount: $10,200,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 3
  • Number of investors: 6

You can find their website here.

33) Zivver

33) Zivver

Zivver is a communication security solution that prevents data leaks in the exchange of sensitive data.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: The Netherlands
  • City: Amsterdam
  • Started in: 2015
  • Founders: Alwin Schoemaker, Jeroen Diederix, Rick Goud, Vincent van Donselaar, Wouter Klinkhamer
  • Number of employees: 101-250
  • Funding amount: $32,214,410
  • Number of funding rounds: 3
  • Number of investors: 4

You can find their website here.

34) Maimai

34) Maimai

Maimai is a social networking and career website headquartered in China.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: China
  • City: Beijing
  • Started in: 2013
  • Founders: Fan Lin
  • Number of employees: 51-100
  • Funding amount: $300,000,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 4
  • Number of investors: 4

You can find their website here.

35) MessageBird

35) MessageBird

MessageBird is a cloud communications platform that helps businesses communicate with their global consumers.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: The Netherlands
  • City: Amsterdam
  • Started in: 2011
  • Founders: Adriaan Mol, Robert Vis
  • Number of employees: 251-500
  • Funding amount: $1,100,120,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 5
  • Number of investors: 14

You can find their website here.

36) Quicksave Interactive

36) Quicksave Interactive

Quicksave Interactive is a chat game platform that creates entertaining gaming-based chatting apps.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Finland
  • City: Helsinki
  • Started in: 2017
  • Founders: Elina Arponen, Timo Kämäräinen, Ville-Kalle Arponen
  • Number of employees: 1-10
  • Funding amount: $1,673,727
  • Number of funding rounds: 4
  • Number of investors: 5

You can find their website here.

37) TextNow

37) TextNow

We believe that communication is a right that everyone has. We work hard to ensure that people have access to free phone service.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Canada
  • City: Waterloo
  • Started in: 2009
  • Founders: Derek Ting, Gary Fung, Jon Lerner
  • Number of employees: 101-250
  • Funding amount: $1,000,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 1
  • Number of investors: 4

You can find their website here.

38) Take Blip

38) Take Blip

Take Blip's mission is to create, run, and evolve chatbots.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Brazil
  • City: Sao Paulo
  • Started in: 1999
  • Founders: Daniel R. Costa, Marcelo Oliveira, Roberto Oliveira, Sergio Passos
  • Number of employees: 501-1000
  • Funding amount: $100,000,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 1
  • Number of investors: 1

You can find their website here.

39) Tidio

39) Tidio

Tidio is a live chat software.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Poland
  • City: Szczecin
  • Started in: 2013
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Funding amount: $1,831,765
  • Number of funding rounds: 2
  • Number of investors: 2

You can find their website here.

40) Snow Corporation

40) Snow Corporation

Snow App is a photo and video app with regional filters, stickers, and features that is developed and operated by Snow.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: South Korea
  • City: Seongnam
  • Started in: 2015
  • Number of employees: 101-250
  • Funding amount: $95,000,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 2
  • Number of investors: 4

You can find their website here.

41) Kakao Japan

41) Kakao Japan

Kakao Japan is a free smartphone messaging and calling software.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Japan
  • City: Tokyo
  • Started in: 2011
  • Number of employees: 51-100
  • Funding amount: ¥70,000,000,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 2
  • Number of investors: 3

You can find their website here.

42) Webio

42) Webio

The Conversational Middleware Company(tm) is bringing conversational interfaces into the enterprise.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: Ireland
  • City: Dublin
  • Started in: 2016
  • Founders: Cormac O'Neill
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Funding amount: € 1,000,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 3
  • Number of investors: 3

You can find their website here.

43) MUNCH:ON

43) MUNCH:ON

With MUNCH:ON Pro, you can get 50% off and free delivery from the greatest restaurants, thanks to bundling, routing, and scheduling technologies.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: United Arab Emirates
  • City: Dubai
  • Started in: 2016
  • Founders: Dana Baki, Mohammad Al Zaben
  • Number of employees: 101-250
  • Funding amount: $6,000,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 3
  • Number of investors: 13

You can find their website here.

44) Watermelon

44) Watermelon

Watermelon is a conversational AI platform that makes it simple to create your own Chatbot or AI Assistant without having to know how to code.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: The Netherlands
  • City: Utrecht
  • Started in: 2016
  • Founders: Alexander Wijninga, Charl Haas
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Funding amount: € 4,000,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 2
  • Number of investors: 1

You can find their website here.

45) Siilo

45) Siilo

Siilo is a secure and compliant messaging platform that enables healthcare professionals to interact, share knowledge, and conduct case research.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: The Netherlands
  • City: Amsterdam
  • Started in: 2016
  • Founders: Arvind Rao, Jan-Joost Rueb, Joost Bruggeman, Onno Bakker
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Funding amount: € 14,000,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 2
  • Number of investors: 3

You can find their website here.

46) Easemob Technologies

46) Easemob Technologies

EaseMob is a platform as a service (PaaS) that enables app developers to incorporate instant messaging, telephony, and data services into their apps.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: China
  • City: Haidian
  • Started in: 2013
  • Founders: Jervis Liu, Ji Fang, Johnson Ma, Shaozhuang Liu
  • Number of employees: 251-500
  • Funding amount: $36,198,763
  • Number of funding rounds: 5
  • Number of investors: 4

You can find their website here.

47) Onoff

47) Onoff

Onoff Telecom provides a variety of communication-revolutionizing products for both residential and commercial users.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: France
  • City: Paris
  • Started in: 2014
  • Founders: Taig Khris
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Funding amount: € 20,000,000
  • Number of funding rounds: 5
  • Number of investors: 27

You can find their website here.

48) WeChat

48) WeChat

WeChat is a mobile messaging app that allows users to send text and voice messages.

Details of the startup:

  • Country: China
  • City: Shenzhen
  • Started in: 2012
  • Founders: Allen Zhang, Richard Sheng

You can find their website here.

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