Chatbot Companies Overview. Who is Growing in July — August 2017
SimilarWeb recently opened it’s July data. BotMakers team compiled a quick list of chatbot companies that keep growing.
In this list we have a few chatbot platforms, a couple publications focused on bots, an engagement platform and a chatbot building framework designed especially for chatbot developers.
1. ManyChat
Waiting for a sign to start doing Messenger Marketing right now? Ta-da! Here it is! ManyChat New Onboarding gives you a quick start: set up your Welcome Message, create your first Broadcast and share your bot to gain first subscribers.
ManyChat, which allows businesses to create a no-coding-required chatbot in minutes, launched on Telegram in 2015 and a year later released a platform for Facebook Messenger. They now power over 20 thousand bots that send 10 million messages per month.
We’ve been growing since and now we are happy to be one of the biggest bot platforms on Messenger.
Mikael Yang, CEO and Co-founder of ManyChat
The “traditional” social platforms, like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, are being challenged by a swarm of messaging apps. The next big acquisition spree by social platforms could well be buying up some messaging and bot management platforms, like Chatsuite.
Barry Levine, staff writer at Marketing Land.
3. KITT.AI
Since its inception, the mission of KITT.AI has been making human machine interaction simple with natural language understanding technologies, with roots in two of the best universities in speech and NLP.
According to Xconomy Seattle article Baidu gives KITT.AI a view to a larger audience of developers and the financial might of 17-year-old Beijing-based search and cloud services provider.
Developers using KITT.AI’s technology will benefit from “better products, better services and a peace of mind that KITT.AI will continue to operate with its existing products in the years to come,”.
Xuchen Yao, founder of KITT.AI
4. Hu:toma
When online businesses are investing large sums of money in hiring agents for customer support, Hutoma AI has introduced a virtual marketplace to hire deep learning chatbots from. Most importantly, nobody has to learn how to code as they can tutor this AI chatbot using previous chat examples and Hutoma’s deep learning design.
FinSMEs says: “Led by Maurizio Cibelli, Hu:toma, a Barcelona, Spain-based startup working on conversational AIs powered by deep learning, closed $300k in seed funding. The company plans to use the funds to develop an API ecosystem around their technology.”
5. Chatbots Magazine
We have more than 100,000 readers and 250,000 reads every month, and growing. Our readers range widely: marketers, business people, software developers, AI researchers, journalists, and people who are simply interested in the chatbot explosion. Don’t be shy! We love to hear from readers and aspiring writers. Kelli Kissack, editor Chatbots Magazine
With all the experience from 2016, botmakers are now prepared to use their ideas and data to build bots that go viral, provide value, and become a part of your daily life. This is why 2017 will be the year of the killer bots. There are over 3 billion people who use messaging apps and soon they will be using bots.
Matt Schlicht , CEO of Octane AI, Founder of Chatbots Magazine
6. Ubisend
Ubisend can trace its roots back to 2001. Since then, it has been operating at the forefront of mobile messaging technology to deliver messages to over seven million people in 11 countries and 26 languages.
According to Dean Withey, CEO and founder of Ubisend, which has built chatbots for several multinational companies, including Unilever and Johnson & Johnson, the benefit of artificial intelligence (AI) is its ability to learn conversational skills and understand commands. This has huge potential for handling customer service and marketing.
7. Engati
Come explore the world of Engati — an exciting new way to approaching customer service, that has been benchmarked to reduce 92% of service costs which solving for all the challenges above.
nishita goyal, author at Engati Blog
8. Converse AI
The chat bot explosion has disrupted the conversational based services market and the use cases and possibilities are bigger than ever before. As the Converse AI platform has been built to handle a wide range of use cases, we are so excited to see how people are going to use it.
Converse.AI is a world leading bot platform designed specifically to build bots to automate business processes or automate customer interaction through chat.
ServiceRocket is a global company with years of experience in helping other companies grow through speeding up the adoption of software.
Both companies have recognised that chat bots, in particular bots built for Enterprise purposes, are having a significant impact across all industries, and they have decided to join forces. Tony Lucas, Founder of Converse.AI
9. Chat Leap
Imagine a world where you can communicate with your customers, in the same way you communicate with friends. Chat Leap’s Marketing Platform helps you communicate on Instant Messaging at scale.
Our mission is to create products that consumers love — ultimately creating amazing value for both our customers and their audience, while making sure business goals are met.
Yoav Rimon, Co-founder & CEO Chat Leap
10. Bot Tutorials
The bots community evolving very fast and lots of new products are launched every week. The aim for this product is to keep track of all relevant resources related to bots to help chatbots community.
Keyul Shah, Editor of Bot Tutorials: “I have the zeal to work on new challenges and find innovative solutions. I explore and quickly adapt to the new development platform, tools, and programming paradigms. I love to work in fast pace environment, surrounded by brilliant minded people and technology enthusiasts. Always open to work with entrepreneurs and startups.”
If you know any other cool chatbot companies that grow and I missed them please mention in the comments.
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