Top Chat Startups in 2024

Sendbird is trusted by 4000 of the world’s most popular apps – including DoorDash, Match Group, Noom, and Yahoo Sports – to power messages between businesses and over 300 Million people every month; to build relationships and get things done. The company offers an award-winning communication platform that modern digital experiences are built on, unlocking the potential of unified customer communications across omnichannel business messaging, in-app chat, voice, video, and AI virtual assistants. Headquartered in California, Sendbird is backed by ICONIQ, Softbank, Tiger Global Management, Y Combinator, and other reputable investors.

Stream powers activity feeds and chat for over 500 million end-users. It's one of the fastest-growing startups located in Boulder, Colorado, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Here at Stream, we believe that modern apps should be based on reusable components instead of rebuilding things from scratch. If you're building an app, you can leverage our extremely scalable and polished APIs to add feeds or chat to your application quickly. If you're curious about our product, you can try our chat or feeds API.

Sitting at the intersection of social networking and gaming, we empower creativity and connection in a digital world. Our mission is to build deep, rich virtual worlds where everyone belongs. We have been working towards this mission for a decade. We are the creators of Highrise, the first virtual world on mobile, which has seen extraordinary growth over the last few years and now boasts over 20 million users across iOS and Android. Every day, the citizens of Highrise come together to hangout, explore, create, collect, and trade in our metaverse, and we are on the precipice of making history once again with our expansion into Highrise World. We're a completely remote company with a diverse set of employees spanning 18 different countries. We are connected by a singular mission of building amazing games that bring our players together.

Built for organizations that need more control over their communications; it enables collaboration between colleagues, partners, customers, communities, and even platforms without compromises on data ownership, customizations, or integrations. Tens of millions of users in over 150 countries and organizations such as Deutsche Bahn, The US Navy, and Credit Suisse trust Rocket.Chat every day to keep their communications completely private and secure. Rocket.Chat is an enterprise communication hub that offers numerous solutions: Omnichannel Customer Experience, Team Collaboration, and DevOps. The main benefit is to centralize organizational communication and boost productivity by bringing messages, video calls, file sharing, and all team communication into one place. Built-in JavaScript, using the Meteor full-stack framework, the tool offers omnichannel customer engagement through LiveChat widget and integrations with Whatsapp, Twilio, Messenger, SMS, Emails, among others. Team collaboration can be improved by chat messaging, video conferences, audio messages, file sharing, threads, discussion groups, direct or group messages, real-time translation, audit messaging panel, and custom user permissions. DevOps can be accelerated with native integrations offered in Rocket.Chat`s marketplace, real-time LDAP, webhooks, and powerful APIs.

OneHash, Inc. is the World's first FaaS company that offers the only affordable sales CRM, ERP for HR and accounting work automation and Live Chat for seamless lead capturing. Starting as merely an idea to make a difference, OneHash has been taking the business world by storm. Being the World’s 1st FaaS, OneHash offers small business enterprises services that are generally available to the larger enterprises from A-Z. To elaborate further, we are currently offering alternatives to: - ZOHO CRM, HubSpot & Pipedrive -Crisp Chat, Zendesk & Intercom - Slack, Calendly, & Google Mail OneHash's journey began like any other startup's: with a two-person team and a modest investment of $2 million from their personal savings. The credibility and reliability of the platform were questioned when a CRM solution was made available at such a low cost. Another problem was finding employees who cared about the organization's mission and weren't just there for the money. After overcoming these obstacles and realizing its vision. Despite its initial obstacles, OneHash now has more than 41,0000 signups and operations on all seven continents. The company has a vision of 10 million users within the next 10 years and a quest to provide an All-In-One FaaS solution to 95 percent of the world's SMBs. In terms of revenue, in the last financial year we acquired $100,000 with a monthly revenue of $12,000.

Varsity Tutors is a live learning platform that connects students and professionals with personalized instruction to achieve any goal. To date, students have accessed more than three million hours of live instruction on the platform. Experts are available to meet in person or through the company’s award-winning online and mobile platforms, which account for the majority of all sessions.

Businesses are increasingly investing in building communities as they enable P2P value creation, retention, product stickiness and referrals. However, building in-app communities takes years of engineering efforts resulting in most brands either not building a community or building it from scratch on 3rd party platforms. LikeMinds is a simple plug and play, highly customisable community infra platform that helps brands build in-app communities in 15 mins. Brands can leverage the platform to build community features like group chats, 1-1 chats, activity feed, event management, resource library quickly without any engineering effort. LikeMinds also offers a white-label community platform for creators and entrepreneurs who are interested in building an app first community and monetise it by selling digital products like memberships, group chats, events, consultations and courses.

Botco.ai is the AI Chat Cloud company. Botco.ai enables businesses to engage people through helpful, relevant and personalized conversations that convert strangers into customers. Enterprises rely on Botco.ai’s end-to-end Generative AI Chat Cloud to rapidly find, retrieve and present information from across their enterprise data systems in order to engage visitors at all stages of the customer journey. Botco.ai empowers businesses from a range of industries to deliver exceptional, trustworthy customer experiences that generate high quality pipeline, increase sales conversions, and accelerate revenue. Recipient of the Arizona Innovation Challenge "Most Outstanding Startup" award, best SaaS platform from the Arizona Commerce Authority (ACA), the TiE50 Award, and others, Botco.ai is transforming the way businesses communicate with their prospects and customers. For more information, visit botco.ai.

Sleeper's mission is to connect people over sports. We believe the most important aspect of sports is its ability to bring friends and communities together. We do this via multi-player games like fantasy leagues, with messaging at the core of the experience. We're hiring and would love to meet you!

Hey there! We are a Sequoia-backed SaaS startup building an AI-native Marketing, Support & Sales suite for e-commerce brands. We’re currently working with 2500+ e-commerce brands globally across 50+ countries and are fortunate to have raised $5.5M+ along the journey with marquee investors like Sequoia Capital India, Kunal Shah, Gaurav Munjal & more backing us. Within a year of launch, we have 1200+ e-commerce brands across 50+ countries using our product (pretty cool right?). Check us out here - apps.shopify.com/bitespeed-fb-messenger-chatbot and do read through the 150 odd 5-star reviews to get a sense of what our customers say about us (we openly brag about this ;)). Learn more about our investors here - yourstory.com/2020/12/funding-bitespeed-sandeep-tandon-freecharge-whiteboard-….