All the funding deals in the conversational AI market
Last updated: 12 May 2026
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The conversational AI market is growing fast because companies now want AI assistants that can speak, listen, answer, sell, and support customers.
We conducted deep research and collected 99 funding deals in the conversational AI market from Q1 2024 to Q2 2026.
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Insights
- The conversational AI market attracted about $5.2B across these 99 deals, which shows that investors are funding both large platforms and narrow voice AI tools.
- Q1 2026 alone represents about $1.6B of conversational AI market funding, driven by very large rounds for ElevenLabs, Parloa, Decagon, and Wonderful.
- The biggest conversational AI market deals are now above $250M, which means the category is moving beyond early seed funding into scale-up funding.
- Voice AI is one of the clearest themes in the conversational AI market, with many funded companies focused on phone calls, speech models, and voice agents.
- Customer support remains the strongest use case in the conversational AI market because enterprises can link AI agents to clear savings and faster response times.
- The conversational AI market is also becoming more vertical, with funded startups serving healthcare, restaurants, logistics, real estate, legal intake, and automotive dealerships.
- Several companies raised more than once since 2024, which suggests that the conversational AI market is rewarding teams that show fast commercial traction.
- Infrastructure still matters in the conversational AI market, as Deepgram, LiveKit, Gradium, and Phonic raised capital for the technical layers behind AI conversations.
- The conversational AI market is global, with visible funding activity across the United States, Europe, India, Israel, Southeast Asia, and South Korea.
This chart, included in our conversational AI market deck, shows annual VC investment in conversational AI startups
Summary table of the funding deals for the conversational AI market since 2024
We define the conversational AI market as the products that enable or deliver AI assistants whose primary interface is natural-language conversation (text or voice) for end users in consumer or enterprise settings.
We include assistant platforms and components (dialog/orchestration, speech, retrieval/knowledge connectors, guardrails, analytics) as well as packaged assistant solutions sold by subscription or usage tied to conversations or outcomes.
We exclude general-purpose LLM APIs and broader software suites (e.g., CRM/CCaaS/helpdesk) where conversational AI is only a minor feature, along with pure communications plumbing and standalone professional services.
We focused exclusively on pure players, defined as companies with at least 70–80% of their business directly tied to the conversational AI market.
Our analysis has been done at a global level with a minimum funding threshold of $300k.
You can also read our detailed analysis to understand how funding activity in the conversational AI market has evolved recently.
If you want a longer-term view, we also have a study of how funding activity in the conversational AI market has changed over the years.
Also, you should know that we have a dedicated page, updated weekly, with all the latest fundraising deals in the conversational AI market.
| Name | What they do | Amount in $ | Quarter | Source(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miravoice | Runs voice interviews and long phone surveys with AI voice agents. | $6.3M | Q2 2026 | Crunchbase News |
| Phonely | Provides AI voice receptionists that answer calls and book appointments. | $16M | Q2 2026 | Phonely |
| Vox Talk AI | Builds voice and vision AI operators for security monitoring. | $1.46M | Q2 2026 | Renatus Capital Partners |
| AlphaLit | Uses voice AI to screen legal claims and route cases. | $3.2M | Q1 2026 | LawFuel |
| Deepgram | Offers real-time speech AI APIs for voice AI products. | $130M | Q1 2026 | Deepgram |
| VoiceRun | Helps enterprises build, deploy, and monitor voice AI agents. | $5.5M | Q1 2026 | PR Newswire |
| Parloa | Automates contact-center conversations with enterprise AI agents. | $350M | Q1 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Bolna | Builds multilingual voice AI agents for Indian enterprise calls. | $6.3M | Q1 2026 | Bolna |
| Mia Labs | Automates automotive dealership conversations for sales and service. | $20M | Q1 2026 | Mia |
| Ringg AI | Orchestrates voice AI agents across support, sales, and logistics. | $5.5M | Q1 2026 | Ringg |
| Decagon | Builds AI agents for customer support and concierge experiences. | $250M | Q1 2026 | Business Wire |
| Linq | Puts AI assistants inside messaging channels like SMS and RCS. | $20M | Q1 2026 | TechCrunch |
| ElevenLabs | Creates voice and audio AI tools for speech and agents. | $500M | Q1 2026 | ElevenLabs |
| Newo.ai | Provides voice and messaging agents for small business front offices. | $25M | Q1 2026 | Unite.AI |
| Simple AI | Builds voice AI agents for sales and support calls. | $14M | Q1 2026 | Business Wire |
| Winn.ai | Guides sales reps during calls and updates CRM systems. | $18M | Q1 2026 | Crunchbase News |
| VoiceLine | Turns frontline voice notes into CRM entries and reports. | $10.8M | Q1 2026 | Tech.eu |
| UnityAI | Automates healthcare scheduling and coordination with AI workers. | $8.5M | Q1 2026 | Healthcare IT Today |
| Wonderful | Offers multilingual AI agents for customer support and operations. | $150M | Q1 2026 | Wonderful |
| VerbaFlo | Automates real estate leasing and resident conversations. | $7M | Q1 2026 | Tech.eu |
| Notch | Automates conversational and back-office workflows in regulated industries. | $30M | Q1 2026 | FinTech Global |
| Sycamore | Builds governance and orchestration software for enterprise AI agents. | $65M | Q1 2026 | Business Wire |
| Gnani.ai | Provides speech recognition, synthesis, and enterprise voice automation. | $10M | Q1 2026 | Business Today |
| PolyAI | Builds enterprise voice AI agents for contact centers. | $86M | Q4 2025 | PR Newswire |
| GetVocal | Creates governed conversational agents for enterprise support teams. | $26M | Q4 2025 | Business Wire |
| Dialogue AI | Runs live customer and market-research interviews with AI. | $6M | Q4 2025 | Business Wire |
| Clarity | Turns customer conversations into voice-of-customer insights. | $12M | Q4 2025 | Retail Tech Innovation Hub |
| Beside | Provides AI voice receptionists and assistants for small businesses. | $20M | Q4 2025 | Fortune |
| WIZ.AI | Builds voice-first AI for Southeast Asian customer engagement. | $25M | Q4 2025 | TechNode Global |
| Giga | Orchestrates voice AI agents for enterprise customer support. | $61M | Q4 2025 | Fortune |
| AUI / Augmented Intelligence Inc. | Builds neuro-symbolic conversational agents for task-based dialogue. | $20M | Q4 2025 | PR Newswire |
| Counsel Health | Uses conversational AI for virtual care intake and triage. | $25M | Q4 2025 | Fierce Healthcare |
| Honey Health | Automates healthcare administration and patient data tasks with agents. | $7.8M | Q4 2025 | Fortune Business Insights |
| Uniphore | Automates enterprise service conversations with voice AI. | $260M | Q4 2025 | Business Wire |
| Sesame | Builds consumer voice assistants and smart-glasses AI experiences. | $250M | Q4 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Known | Uses voice AI for dating onboarding and matching. | $9.7M | Q4 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Resemble AI | Creates generative voice AI for cloning and speech synthesis. | $13M | Q4 2025 | Resemble AI Blog |
| Gradium | Builds audio-language models for low-latency voice AI. | $70M | Q4 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Yoodli | Offers AI roleplay and coaching for sales conversations. | $40M | Q4 2025 | GeekWire |
| Cactus AI | Answers calls and books jobs for home-service businesses. | $7M | Q4 2025 | The SaaS News |
| SLNG.ai | Builds speech AI infrastructure for transcription and speech generation. | $3.6M | Q4 2025 | EU-Startups |
| Wonderful | Builds multilingual AI agents for front-line customer service. | $100M | Q4 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Outset | Runs customer interviews through agentic research assistants. | $30M | Q4 2025 | Axios |
| Spara | Qualifies inbound sales leads through voice, email, and chat. | $15M | Q3 2025 | WebProNews |
| Hello Patient | Automates medical front-desk and patient communication workflows. | $22.5M | Q3 2025 | Business Wire |
| Vox AI | Automates drive-thru and quick-service restaurant ordering by voice. | $8.7M | Q3 2025 | Business Wire |
| Darwin AI | Automates sales, support, and collections on WhatsApp and voice. | $4.5M | Q3 2025 | Finsmes |
| Loman AI | Handles restaurant calls, orders, and reservations with AI. | $3.5M | Q3 2025 | VentureBeat |
| Sleekflow | Provides omnichannel conversational AI for chat-based commerce. | $7M | Q3 2025 | CRN Asia |
| EliseAI | Automates housing and healthcare communications with AI assistants. | $250M | Q3 2025 | EliseAI Blog |
| Lorikeet | Builds AI customer concierges for omnichannel service conversations. | $35M | Q3 2025 | PR Newswire |
| Gradient Labs | Automates customer operations for regulated enterprises with AI agents. | $13M | Q3 2025 | Gradient Labs Blog |
| aiOla | Captures speech and runs tasks in noisy enterprise settings. | $25M | Q3 2025 | PR Newswire |
| Wonderful | Builds multilingual AI agents for customer service teams. | $34M | Q3 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Synthflow AI | Provides no-code voice AI for automated phone calls. | $20M | Q2 2025 | Synthflow AI News |
| SuperDial | Automates healthcare insurer calls and billing tasks by voice. | $15M | Q2 2025 | Fierce Healthcare |
| Decagon | Resolves enterprise customer support requests with AI agents. | $131M | Q2 2025 | Business Wire |
| Maven AGI | Builds support agents across chat, email, and voice. | $50M | Q2 2025 | PR Newswire |
| Ringg AI | Automates multilingual customer conversations by voice. | $1M | Q2 2025 | Quick Market Pitch |
| Luzia | Offers a consumer AI assistant for text and voice chats. | $13.5M | Q2 2025 | Luzia News |
| Parloa | Automates contact-center customer conversations with agentic AI. | $120M | Q2 2025 | Parloa News |
| Solda.AI | Automates telesales and phone sales with multimodal voice agents. | $4M | Q2 2025 | Sifted |
| Telli | Runs AI voice agents for business callbacks and sales calls. | $3.6M | Q2 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Phonic | Provides speech-to-speech tools for reliable voice agents. | $4M | Q2 2025 | PR Newswire |
| WRTN Technologies | Runs a consumer portal for localized AI assistants. | $73.5M | Q1 2025 | Korea Times |
| Lorikeet | Builds AI customer concierges for service conversations. | $9M | Q1 2025 | PR Newswire |
| Slingshot AI | Builds conversational AI support for mental health. | $40M | Q1 2025 | Behavioral Health Business |
| Bland AI | Automates enterprise phone calls for sales and support. | $40M | Q1 2025 | Bland AI Blog |
| ElevenLabs | Builds voice AI for speech generation and voice cloning. | $180M | Q1 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Maki | Automates talent acquisition and HR screening conversations. | $28.6M | Q1 2025 | Business Wire |
| Cartesia | Builds real-time multimodal AI models for low-latency interactions. | $27M | Q4 2024 | Cartesia |
| Decagon | Builds AI customer support agents for enterprises. | $65M | Q4 2024 | Pulse 2.0 |
| eSelf | Helps businesses create face-to-face conversational AI agents. | $4.5M | Q4 2024 | PR Newswire |
| Hamming AI | Tests, monitors, and governs AI voice agents. | $3.8M | Q4 2024 | Hamming AI |
| HappyRobot | Automates logistics voice workflows with AI voice agents. | $15.6M | Q4 2024 | PR Newswire |
| PlayAI | Provides a voice AI platform for generative conversations. | $21M | Q4 2024 | Business Wire |
| Vapi | Helps developers deploy conversational voice AI agents. | $20M | Q4 2024 | Vapi |
| Glean | Connects enterprise AI assistants to workplace knowledge. | $260M | Q3 2024 | Glean |
| Bland AI | Automates enterprise phone calls with AI phone agents. | $16M | Q3 2024 | Business Wire |
| 11x | Builds AI sales development representatives for outreach conversations. | $50M | Q3 2024 | TechCrunch |
| You.com | Provides an AI assistant and search product for knowledge work. | $50M | Q3 2024 | Business Wire |
| Cognigy | Automates enterprise customer service with AI agent workforces. | $100M | Q2 2024 | Business Wire |
| Decagon | Builds AI customer support agents for enterprises. | $35M | Q2 2024 | VentureBeat |
| Dust | Connects enterprise AI assistants to internal company data. | $16M | Q2 2024 | TechCrunch |
| Ema | Provides role-specific AI employees for enterprise workflows. | $36M | Q3 2024 | PRWeb |
| Ema | Provides role-specific AI employees for enterprise workflows. | $25M | Q1 2024 | TechCrunch |
| ElevenLabs | Builds AI voice generation and synthetic speech tools. | $80M | Q1 2024 | ElevenLabs |
| Hume AI | Creates empathic voice interfaces for emotional conversational AI. | $50M | Q1 2024 | Hume AI |
| Kore.ai | Automates customer and employee experiences with conversational AI. | $150M | Q1 2024 | Kore.ai |
| LiveKit | Provides real-time voice and video infrastructure for AI agents. | $22.5M | Q2 2024 | LiveKit |
| Loora | Offers a consumer AI English tutor for spoken practice. | $12M | Q1 2024 | PR Newswire |
| Maven AGI | Builds customer-support agents for enterprise customer experience. | $28M | Q2 2024 | Latham & Watkins |
| Myko AI | Answers sales and revenue questions using company data. | $2.7M | Q1 2024 | VentureBeat |
| NLX | Helps enterprises create and manage chat, voice, and multimodal apps. | $12M | Q1 2024 | PR Newswire |
| Parloa | Automates customer service conversations in contact centers. | $66M | Q2 2024 | TechCrunch |
| Peerlogic | Analyzes dental practice calls and automates workflows. | $5.65M | Q1 2024 | PR Newswire |
| PolyAI | Builds enterprise voice assistants for customer service. | $50M | Q2 2024 | PR Newswire |
| Rasa | Provides generative conversational AI for enterprise assistants. | $30M | Q1 2024 | Business Wire |
| Sierra | Helps businesses build customer-facing AI agents. | $110M | Q1 2024 | VentureBeat |
| Synthflow AI | Provides no-code AI voice assistants for small businesses. | $7.4M | Q2 2024 | Synthflow |
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