Chatbot Companies Overview. Who is Growing in March 2017
Recently SimilarWeb made its March 2017 data is available. A few new services like like Recime entered the market, existing well-known players like Motion.AI and Swelly keep growing.
To make the picture representative I picked a few bot services from different industries. There is a few chatbot building platforms, a Natural Language Processing service, a weather chatbot, a chatbot market research platform.
1. Recime — a Heroku for Bots
Recime provides developers and companies with a bot framework, developer tools, and the power to deploy bots easily on cross-platforms. Recime is built on a cloud infrastructure for easy deployment and scaling. Recime is like Heroku for bots.
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Running by Jeffrey Broer , Mehfuz Hossain, Jean-Marc Ly and Joseph Holguin.
Chicago based Motion AI found by David Nelson makes it easier for retailers, restaurants or any company to offer chatbot service. Motion AI offers a free tier to users who stay below a certain messaging volume.
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Backed by Crush Ventures, a New York-based investment and advising firm, Chicago-based Hyde Park Angels and others.
Dexter is a platform for brands and businesses to easily create and manage chatbots. If you can write, you can make a bot. Whether you’re a small business trying to get off the ground or an enterprise launching a multi-million dollar campaign, Dexter is the leading chatbot web app to get the conversation going.
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Backed by betaworks and Social Starts, running by Daniel Ilkovich.
Poncho The Weather Cat is a chatbot company based in Brooklyn. Poncho is one of the first Facebook Messenger chatbots, announced one year ago by Facebook VP David Marcus on Facebook Developer Conference: F8 2016.
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Backed by betaworks and others, running by Kuan Huang, Sam Mandel and Greg Leuch.
Morph.ai is an Indian startup focused on customer support services over over chat. Some of our clients are Manchester City Football Club, YesBank, United Soccer League.
“We have 1400+ signups, around 220 active accounts and around USD 18k revenue in last quarter”, says Pratik Jain, the founder of Morph AI.
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Running by Pratik Jain.
Hachidori is a fast-growing Japanese chatbot development platform.
“About 1,300 bots are built on hachidori, and we consult and develop bots for about 20 companies. We are planning to expand our market to Thailand, Taiwan, and Indonesia next year.” says Takashi Van, the founder of Hachidori.
Swell.biz is a Market Research Platform that gives you the opportunity to survey thousands of millennials in only 24 hours. Get insights fast & easy and understand your target group better. Recently the platform crossed 2.5M users.
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Found by Peter Buchroithner, Philipp Holly and Manfred Strasser.
8. Layer
Layer is the open communications platform found by Ron Palmeri and Tomaž Štolfa. Through a simple yet powerful SDK, Layer provides the building blocks for developers to add secure and reliable messaging, voice and video features to any app.
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Layer is a TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield SF 2013 finalist.
Luis is a part of Microsoft Cognitive Services. The service provides Natural Language Understanding for chatbots and any other type of applications. According to SimilarWeb data last month Luis processed about 97k visits, it’s 2x more than just a few months ago.
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Running by Microsoft.
Please note, the company I’m working at is also in the chatbot space. I need to track how the market is developing and keep an keep an eye on competitors.
So I think I’ll produce similar lists of growing companies time to time. Let me know if you have anyone to add to that list or any suggestions/changes.
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