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Top 25 AI chatbot startups based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 2,532 AI chatbot startups headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 87,439 professional contacts across them, including 32,121 with verified work emails. San Francisco is the largest hub.
This list covers AI chatbot startups headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest AI chatbot startups based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10,721 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “NiCE is transforming the world with AI that puts people first.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 8,461 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “24]7.ai™ customer engagement solutions use conversational artificial intelligence to understand customer intent, enabling companies to create personalized, predictive, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 7,347 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Genesys® empowers more than organizations worldwide to create the best customer and employee experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 6,628 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Move beyond deflection.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 3,852 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Verint helps you deliver AI outcomes now to solve your most pressing CX automation challenges in the contact center and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 3,544 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nuance Communications is a technology pioneer with market leadership in conversational, ambient, and generative AI.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 2,964 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Etech Global Services delivers customer experience solutions and proprietary AI technology to Fortune 500 companies across telecommunications, healthcare, financial services, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,638 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Build amazing customer experiences with Nextiva’s AI-powered platform.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,473 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dialpad is the leading AI-powered communications intelligence platform creating human-first, AI-enhanced solutions that will drive the next wave of how businesses communicate with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,444 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We’re Intercom, the AI customer service company helping businesses deliver incredible customer experiences at scale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,316 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Talkdesk® is leading a new era in customer experience with Customer Experience Automation (CXA)-a new category and platform designed to automate the full complexity of modern…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,248 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN) is the leader in predictable conversational AI and digital transformation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,174 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The First AI-Native Contact Center.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,050 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gupshup is the leading platform for building and deploying industry-trained Conversational AI Agents for every business across marketing, commerce, and support use cases.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 883 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “XtendOps is an AI-powered BPO built for modern customer experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 804 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The collaborative, AI-powered platform for customer conversations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 759 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “eGain is a leading provider of AI-powered knowledge management and customer experience automation solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 703 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Moveworks is the AI Assistant platform the world’s foremost organizations trust to empower their entire workforce with AI that gets work done.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 669 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SoundHound AI (Nasdaq: SOUN), a global leader in voice and conversational AI, delivers solutions that allow businesses to offer superior experiences to their customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 649 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AutomationEdge is an Enterprise Agentic Process Automation (APA) Platform that enables organizations to automate complex business operations using AI Agents, Intelligent Document…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 561 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sierra helps businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 475 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gorgias is the Conversational AI platform for ecommerce that drives sales and resolves support inquiries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 448 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SaaS Labs is all about helping sales and support teams reach their full potential.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 432 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Vsynergize.ai is your strategic transformation partner, combining AI-driven technology, expert services, and flexible talent solutions to accelerate your business success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 383 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Soft Suave, we specialize in, enabling businesses to integrate advanced capabilities into their operations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: AI chatbot startups. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names AI chatbot startups.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of AI chatbot startups, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name AI chatbot startups. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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AI chatbot startups based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 2,532 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among AI chatbot startups, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “AI chatbot startups”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names AI chatbot startups), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among AI chatbot startups, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 32,121 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
AI chatbot startups by metro
- AI chatbot startups in San Francisco229
- AI chatbot startups in New York156
- AI chatbot startups in Miami87
- AI chatbot startups in Austin86
- AI chatbot startups in Los Angeles70
- AI chatbot startups in Sheridan55
- AI chatbot startups in Dover48
- AI chatbot startups in Houston41
- AI chatbot startups in Wilmington38
- AI chatbot startups in Chicago37
- AI chatbot startups in San Jose36
- AI chatbot startups in Atlanta35
- AI chatbot startups in Seattle34
- AI chatbot startups in Dallas32
- AI chatbot startups in Boston31
- AI chatbot startups in Palo Alto31
- AI chatbot startups in Tampa31
- AI chatbot startups in San Diego29
- AI chatbot startups in Newark25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names AI chatbot startups, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many AI chatbot startups are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 2,532 AI chatbot startups headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
NICE, headquartered in Hoboken, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most AI chatbot startups?
San Francisco leads with 229 headquartered companies, followed by New York (156) and Miami (87).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 32,121 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,532 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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