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Blip puts business on the other end of “hello.”
A Brazilian company built its future around a familiar habit: sending a message. The hard part was getting the business on the other end to remember, respond and finish the job.
Botika Built a Business on the Questions That Wouldn’t Go Away
An Indonesian travel business made booking easier, but customers kept asking for a human. Botika turned those persistent conversations into software for shipping companies, public services and railway stations.
tyntec turns the humble message into serious business
A WhatsApp conversation can sell a jacket. A network signal can help verify a customer. Tyntec has spent two decades connecting those everyday moments to the machinery of mobile telecoms.
Squaretalk
The cloud contact center platform trying to turn every outbound call into a smarter, faster, better-connected conversation - without the enterprise price tag.
respond.io
Trusted by 10,000+ B2C businesses to scale customer chats, calls & campaigns.
Trengo
One inbox for every channel, and AI agents built to handle the conversations nobody wants to answer twice.
Userlike
A student side project in Cologne became the live chat behind Toyota, Nivea and Hermes - and then bet its future on AI that answers before a human has to.
Sinch
The Swedish company you have never heard of sends the one-time passcodes, delivery alerts and marketing texts that reach your phone billions of times a day. This is how Sinch turned invisible infrastructure into a global business.
Infobip
How a self-funded SMS gateway from a Croatian fishing town became the plumbing behind hundreds of billions of texts, WhatsApp messages and login codes.
Clickatell
Clickatell is a chat commerce and messaging platform that helps brands talk to and transact with customers across SMS, WhatsApp and other channels. Founded in 2000 in Cape Town, it was the first company to wire businesses on the internet to consumers on mobile phones using SMS in four lines of code. Twenty-five years later it powers chat banking, tokenized WhatsApp payments and Chat-2-Pay with Visa for over 10,000 customers worldwide.
Brevo
Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) is a Paris-based all-in-one customer engagement platform serving 500,000+ businesses across 180 countries. The platform combines email marketing, SMS, CRM, live chat, and marketing automation under one roof — all priced by email volume rather than contact count. Founded in 2012 by Armand Thiberge, Brevo rebranded from Sendinblue in 2023 to reflect its evolution from an email tool into a full customer lifecycle platform. In December 2025 it achieved unicorn status after raising €500 million in a Series C round led by General Atlantic and Oakley Capital, with a valuation exceeding €1 billion.
Connectly.ai
Connectly is a San Francisco AI startup that turns WhatsApp, Instagram, SMS and RCS threads into a real sales channel. Its Sofia AI agent talks to shoppers in natural language, recommends products, recovers carts, and hands off to humans when needed. The company raised a $20M Series B led by Alibaba in September 2024 and works with retailers and consumer brands across Latin America, the US, and Asia.