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The Natural Language Processing sector is attracting major investment from around the world. Companies are developing tools for everything from search engines to business automation.

Industry giants like OpenAI have secured funding up to $78 billion. Meanwhile, international players like France's Mistral AI show the global competition with €2.8 billion in funding.

Below is our list of 100 Natural Language Processing startups worth keeping an eye on.

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Perplexity has developed an AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, real-time responses to user questions. Their platform combines the capabilities of a search engine with a conversational interface to deliver cited, reliable information.

HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Year Founded2022
FoundersAndy Konwinski, Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho
Funding Amount$1.5B
Startup SizeMid-Size Team (51-250)
Last Funding StatusVenture Round
Top InvestorsNVIDIA, Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, IVP

OpenAI builds and deploys advanced artificial intelligence models through its work as a research company. Its conversational AI, ChatGPT, brought the power of large language models to a global audience.

HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Year Founded2015
FoundersAndrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, Sam Altman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Wojciech Zaremba
Funding Amount$78B
Startup SizeMajor Organization (1,001-5,000)
Last Funding StatusVenture Round
Top InvestorsAndreessen Horowitz, TPG, NVIDIA, Citi, Khosla Ventures

Mistral AI develops a range of large language models, with a strong focus on open-source solutions for developers and enterprises. Their models are known for being highly efficient and customizable, allowing them to be deployed in diverse business environments.

HeadquartersParis, Ile-de-France, France
Year Founded2023
FoundersArthur Mensch, Charles Gorintin, Guillaume Lample, Jean Charles Samuelian, Timothee Lacroix
Funding Amount€2.8B
Startup SizeLarge Team (251-1,000)
Last Funding StatusSeries C
Top InvestorsAndreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, NVIDIA, Bpifrance, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Writer builds a full-stack generative AI platform for enterprises to create consistent content and automate work. Their tools help teams embed secure, custom language models into any business process or application.

HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Year Founded2020
FoundersMay Habib, Waseem AlShikh
Funding Amount$326M
Startup SizeMid-Size Team (51-250)
Last Funding StatusSeries C
Top InvestorsInsight Partners, B Capital, Radical Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Workday Ventures

Vectara created a generative AI platform that allows developers to easily add features like semantic search and summarization into their own products. Their core technology emphasizes grounded generation, which prevents AI hallucinations by ensuring answers are based on the developer's provided data.

HeadquartersPalo Alto, California, United States
Year Founded2022
FoundersAmin Ahmad, Amr Awadallah, Tallat Shafaat
Funding Amount$53.5M
Startup SizeLean Team (11-50)
Last Funding StatusSeries A
Top InvestorsAlumni Ventures, Samsung NEXT, FPV Ventures, Vertex Ventures, Fusion Fund

HappyRobot has developed an operating system for building and managing an AI workforce. Companies use their platform to automate complex business processes and workflows.

HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Year Founded2022
FoundersJavier Palafox, Luis Paarup, Pablo Palafox
Funding Amount$60.7M
Startup SizeLean Team (11-50)
Last Funding StatusSeries B
Top InvestorsAndreessen Horowitz, Base10 Partners, Y Combinator, Samsara, World Innovation Lab

Dialpad offers an AI-powered platform that brings together a company's contact center, sales dialer, voice system, and meetings into one workspace. Its built-in AI analyzes every conversation to provide real-time coaching, automated summaries, and valuable customer insights for sales and support teams.

HeadquartersSan Ramon, California, United States
Year Founded2011
FoundersAlex Cornell, Brian Peterson, Craig Walker, John Rector
Funding Amount$450M
Startup SizeMajor Organization (1,001-5,000)
Last Funding StatusSeries F
Top InvestorsAndreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth, S32, Scale Venture Partners, ICONIQ Capital

Upstage develops custom large language models and AI-powered document processing tools. Their technology helps businesses automate data extraction and analysis to improve workflow management.

HeadquartersYongin, Ch'ungch'ong-namdo, South Korea
Year Founded2020
FoundersHwalsuk Lee, Lucy Park, Sung Kim
Funding Amount$170.4M
Startup SizeMid-Size Team (51-250)
Last Funding StatusSeries B
Top InvestorsSBVA, Premier Partners, AMD, InterVest Co., Primer Sazze Partners

Deepgram builds AI speech-to-text models that allow developers to transcribe and understand audio data. Their platform offers a suite of APIs for transcription, audio intelligence, and text-to-speech, known for its speed and accuracy.

HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Year Founded2015
FoundersNoah Shutty, Scott Stephenson
Funding Amount$85.9M
Startup SizeMid-Size Team (51-250)
Last Funding StatusSeries B
Top InvestorsNVIDIA, BlackRock, Madrona, Wing Venture Capital, Y Combinator

Aisera builds an Agentic AI platform that automates service management operations for large companies. The platform uses generative AI to resolve user requests and automate workflows across departments like IT, HR, and customer service.

HeadquartersSanta Clara, California, United States
Year Founded2017
FoundersAbhi Maheshwari, Christos Tryfonas, Muddu Sudhakar
Funding Amount$164.5M
Startup SizeLarge Team (251-1,000)
Last Funding StatusSeries D
Top InvestorsNorwest Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Goldman Sachs, First Round Capital

90 Additional Natural Language Processing Startups Worth Following

Our top ten picks are just a small sample of the activity happening in this space. Together, the companies on this list have raised over $3.7 billion to build tools for industries ranging from AI and analytics to healthcare.

The field includes both established players and brand new startups founded in the last couple of years. Here’s a look at the other 90 companies that are catching our attention.

StartupMain IndustryYear FoundedAmount RaisedLast Funding Round
Hyperbound logo HyperboundAI2023$18.3MSeries A
Cassidy logo CassidyAI2023$13.7MSeries A
Massive Bio logo Massive BioAI2015$23.8MSeries B
Shield logo ShieldAI2018$35MSeries B
Capacity logo CapacityAI2017$203.8MDebt Financing
Sola Security logo Sola SecurityAI2024$93MSeries A
Theta Lake logo Theta LakeEnterprise2017$67.7MSeries B
ConverSight logo ConverSightAnalytics2017$16MSeries A
Hugging Face logo Hugging FaceAI2016$395.2MVenture Round
Virtualitics logo VirtualiticsAI2016$103.9MDebt Financing
DigitalOwl logo DigitalOwlInsurTech2017$38.5MSeries B
InVideo logo InVideoAI2017$52.5MSeries B
iMerit logo iMeritAnalytics2012$36.3MVenture Round
Clarifai logo ClarifaiAI2013$100MSeries C
Interactions logo InteractionsAI2004$162.8MVenture Round
aviva logo avivaAI2022$21.5MDebt Financing
Suki logo SukiAI2016$165MVenture Round
Zartico logo ZarticoGovTech2019$30.1MVenture Round
Tonic.ai logo Tonic.aiAI2018$45MSeries B
Ripjar logo RipjarAnalytics2012$41.5MPrivate Equity
Dust logo DustAI2023$20MSeries A
LILT logo LILTAI2015$162.9MUndisclosed
GPTZero logo GPTZeroAI2022$13.5MSeries A
Dyania Health logo Dyania HealthAI2019$17.3MSeries A
Defined.ai logo Defined.aiAI2015$78.6MVenture Round
Wizard logo WizardAI2021$50MSeries A
Pindrop logo PindropSecurity2011$318.3MDebt Financing
Unstructured Technologies logo Unstructured TechnologiesAI2022$65MSeries B
Siren logo SirenAnalytics2016$27.6MDebt Financing
TechWolf logo TechWolfAI2018$55.6MVenture Round
Aleph Alpha logo Aleph AlphaAI2019$533.6MSecondary Market
CozmoX AI (YC W22) logo CozmoX AI (YC W22)AI2024$1MPre-Seed
Onyx logo OnyxAI2023$10.5MSeed
Unbabel logo UnbabelAI2013$91.2MSeries C
Cathoven logo CathovenAI2022$900kSeed
Datapeople logo DatapeopleEnterprise2016$21MSeries A
SuperAnnotate logo SuperAnnotateAI2018$67MSeries B
Blip logo BlipAI1999$230MSeries C
AI SPERA logo AI SPERAAI2017₩23BSeries B
Kore.ai logo Kore.aiAI2013$223.5MSeries D
Wrtn Technologies logo Wrtn TechnologiesAI2021₩152.3BSeries B
kea logo keaAI2018$30.7MVenture Round
Streetbees logo StreetbeesAnalytics2015$63.8MConvertible Note
ChainGPT logo ChainGPTAI2022$400kSeed
Textio logo TextioAI2014$42.5MVenture Round
Aquant logo AquantAI2016$115.6MSeries C
Precisely logo PreciselySaaS2014$1.8MSeed
AI Hay logo AI HayAI2021$19.3MSeries A
Mobvoi logo MobvoiAI2012$264.9MVenture Round
aiOla logo aiOlaAI2020$58MSeries A
Cyabra logo CyabraData2018$12.3MSeries A
Musixmatch logo MusixmatchMedia2010$13.1MPrivate Equity
Factiverse logo FactiverseAI2021$2.4MPre-Seed
AIQ logo AIQAI2014¥1.3BSeries B
WIZ.AI logo WIZ.AIAI2019$56MSeries A
Skit logo SkitAI2016$28.1MSeries B
CloudFactory logo CloudFactoryAI2010€78MPrivate Equity
Palver logo PalverAI2021$500kPre-Seed
Convin logo ConvinAnalytics2019$8.9MSeries A
Ubestream logo UbestreamAI2016$1.2MSeries A
Tilde logo TildeAI1991€98.8kGrant
Cortical.io logo Cortical.ioAI2011$21.3MSeries A
XUND logo XUNDAI2018€14MSeed
YaVendio logo YaVendioAI2023$1.1MPre-Seed
Aivo logo AivoAnalytics2012$1.5MSeed
Webdox logo WebdoxCloud2017$11.3MVenture Round
Aiello logo AielloAI2018$15.8MVenture Round
Coraz Zdrowiej - iDocly logo Coraz Zdrowiej - iDoclyAI2022€3MPre-Seed
Relative Insight logo Relative InsightMarketing2012$11.5MPrivate Equity
OrbitalAds logo OrbitalAdsAI2016$4.9MSeed
AxonJay logo AxonJayAnalytics2021$3.3MSeed
Argilla logo ArgillaAI2017$7.2MSeed
reciTAL logo reciTALAI2017$3.5MVenture Round
StepStar logo StepStarAI2023$3MVenture Round
NEOALI logo NEOALIAI2019₩2.8BSeries A
Rocketbot logo RocketbotAI2018$2.1MSeed
WeGroup logo WeGroupFintech2017€4.4MSeries A
C Teleport logo C TeleportMobility2017€1.2MSeries A
Inverbis Analytics logo Inverbis AnalyticsAnalytics2020$536.7kSeed
MARA Solutions logo MARA SolutionsAnalytics2020€747kSeed
Langtail logo LangtailAI2023$1MPre-Seed
WordSynk logo WordSynkAI1985$69.2MVenture Round
AIDigitalEngine logo AIDigitalEngineAI2021$103kSeed
ChipIntelli logo ChipIntelliAI2015CN¥163MSeries B
SignAll logo SignAllHardware2016€3MSeed
Neticle logo NeticleAnalytics2012€2.1MSeries A
Capri Healthcare Ltd logo Capri Healthcare LtdAI2019$869.3kSeed
myBiros logo myBirosAI2021€360kPre-Seed
Minte.ai logo Minte.aiAI2020€872kPre-Seed
ScriptBook logo ScriptBookAI2014$1.4MSeed

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