Top California Conversational AI Startups (31)

Deepgram is the leading voice AI platform for developers building speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS) and full speech-to-speech (STS) offerings. 200,000+ developers build with Deepgram’s voice-native foundational models – accessed through APIs or as self-managed software – due to our unmatched accuracy, latency and pricing. Customers include software companies building voice products, co-sell partners working with large enterprises, and enterprises solving...

As crazy as it sounds, humanity has already free itself once — from hard, menial work. We’re just finishing the job, and using AI agents to get us rid of knowledge work. Our goal is to build "AI employees" which can collaborate with humans and other AI employees alike, over all channels (email, Slack, Zoom, etc), pursue ambiguous goals in changing...

We empower districts with accredited middle and high school original credit, credit recovery, and multilingual courses that meet the needs of today’s learners and educators. Our platform was built from the ground up based on extensive feedback from educators and team members who understand firsthand the challenges of teaching today's digital-native students. Teachers told us they needed better ways to...

PromptQL is an enterprise AI company building a platform that helps organizations use natural language to analyze data, understand operations, and automate work with greater accuracy and trust. Founded by the team behind Hasura, the company focuses on making AI useful in real business environments where data is fragmented across systems and context matters. PromptQL connects AI to business logic,...

Elicit, the AI research assistant, helps you automate time-consuming research tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, and synthesizing your findings.We're a public benefit company with a mission is to scale up good reasoning. We want machine learning to help as much with thinking and reflection as it does with tasks that have clear short-term outcomes.

Monogram is the first platform that lets LLMs control the entire user experience. By combining voice with UI generated on the fly, we create an experience that’s far more powerful and engaging than a chatbot. We believe this paradigm will redefine how software is built.

Creating revolutionary open-ended conversational applications through breakthrough research.

Quo is a modern business phone system that brings all your calls, texts, and customer information together in one easy-to-use, AI-powered platform. It helps your team stay organized and respond faster, so you can give every customer a great experience. AI handles busywork like logging calls, organizing messages, answering FAQs, and seamlessly hands off conversations to your team when needed. Whether...

SuperDial is a voice AI company automating the phone calls that drain time and money from healthcare operations. Its voice AI agents handle benefits verification, prior authorization, claims follow-up, credentialing, and other RCM workstreams, freeing up revenue cycle teams to focus on what matters. Customers include leading provider organizations, billing companies, and payers.

Wonder Dynamics a media-tech startup developing an AI production tool that would allow indie filmmakers to deliver blockbuster-level VFX on a fraction of the budget.

Level AI (https://thelevel.ai) is a Mountain View, CA and Delhi, India based startup innovating in the Voice AI space. We are backed by top VCs, technologists from Silicon Valley and industry experts. We are on a mission for AI to augment the worker and not replace them. We are innovating in speech AI, NLP and information retrieval systems to bring...

The proactive AI assistant built for high-velocity teams.

Replicant is a company that uses AI to automate customer service requests and resolve conversations, enabling contact centers to deliver exceptional customer service and empowering agents to focus on more complex issues.

Parakeet Health is building the AI-powered operating system for medical practices. Today, healthcare runs on phone calls, faxes, and manual labor, and everyone feels it. Practices burn through staff juggling inbound calls, chasing referrals, and filling last-minute cancellations, while patients sit on hold, wait weeks to hear back, and fall through the cracks when overloaded teams can't keep up. Our conversational...

At 11x, we’re not just building tools—we’re redefining how work gets done. We build autonomous digital workers that execute entire go-to-market workflows, end-to-end. Instead of just augmenting tasks with AI, 11x automates the full execution of sales, marketing, and RevOps processes so teams can focus on what they do best: building relationships, closing deals, and driving impact. Our technology integrates across...

We're building the Superhuman Sports AI Teammate — transforming sports video and data into instant insights for coaches and individual athletes. Snapp is a sports Large Visual Memory Model (LVMM) using agentic system and multimodal encoding that processes visual, audio, and contextual information for human-like understanding of sports content. Our platform enables semantic search, content retrieval, and multi-video analysis across unlimited...

Our live receptionist services have powered thousands of client interactions every day for over a decade, and we’re now expanding our technology portfolio with AI-driven products that combine human empathy with intelligent automation. The AI Receptionist Platform is Abby Connect’s latest innovation — an intelligent voice system that manages scheduling, intake, and communication in natural conversation. It’s a critical part of...

Scale your voice generation with PlayAI's Text to Speech models that can clone and generate speech with hyper-realism across any language, accent and dialect

We deliver comprehensive IT and cybersecurity solutions designed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Our services include managed IT, cloud services, cybersecurity assessments, compliance support, and custom automation solutions. We specialize in serving healthcare, financial services, real estate management, and construction industries, addressing their unique technological and regulatory needs. With a proactive approach and deep technical expertise, we ensure...

MindMeld is a technology company based in San Francisco, California. Our Deep-Domain Conversational AI platform is the first technology platform that enables companies to build intelligent conversational interfaces for any application or device. The world’s most innovative companies use our platform to power next-generation voice and chat assistants that enable users to quickly find and navigate information in a range...