Recently Sam Altman from Y Combinator announced a new online Startup School. It’s a 10-week massively open online course (MOOC). The idea is to teach everyone how to start a startup and help them along the way with guidance from people who’ve started companies.
Startup School will have guest speakers covering a wide variety of topics, including Alan Kay, Jan Koum (WhatsApp), Patrick Collison (Stripe), Steve Huffman (Reddit), Jason Lemkin (SaaStr), Harry Zhang (Lob), Dalton Caldwell (YC), Emmett Shear (Twitch), Adam D’Angelo (Quora), Alex Schultz (Facebook), Tracy Young (PlanGrid), Michael Seibel (YC), Kirsty Nathoo (YC), Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures), Ali Rowghani (YC), Jess Lee (Sequoia), Aaron Harris (YC).
Our company was one of a few chatbot startups enrolled in the course. Each group has it’s own mentor, usually it’s a founder of a well-known company or YC alumni. We were lucky to Ryan Bubinski from codecademy.
The total number of messaging and voice chatbot startups is close to 50. Here I picked up the ones I like the most, including BotMakers we’re working on.
1. Reply.ai
Reply is an enterprise-level bot building platform that allows to build and manage cross-platform bots across all messaging apps. No coding required. Reply.ai is being used by KIA, Nike, VAIO, HP and others, and the platform integrates with major customer support platforms such as FreshDesk, Zendesk and LiveChat.
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Founders Omar Pera, Pablo Pera, Erica Mannherz, Clara de Soto
2. chatShopper
chatShopper is Europes first fashion chatbot on Facebook Messenger. “We believe in conversational interfaces and investing in NLU and deep learning to make fashion shopping via chat an awesome experience,” says Antonia Ermacora, a chatShopper co-founder.
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Founders Antonia Ermacora and Matthias Nannt
3. Botmakers
Botmakers is a Chatbot Template Marketplace offers 110+ plug and play chatbot templates for platforms like ManyChat, MobileMonkey and Chatfuel. Botmakers is focused on Facebook Messenger bots only.
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Founders Alexander Gamanyuk (https://tarta.ai/)
4. botanalytics
Conversational analytics for bots. It helps bot owners to improve their human-to-bot communication with identifying bottlenecks, filtering conversations, and understanding engagement.
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Founders İlker Köksal and Enis Gayretli
5. Weps
First to make building a website as easy as talking to a computer. Just answer a couple of questions and Weps AI will build your website instantly.
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Founders Juhan Kaarma, Jorma Jürisaar and Taavid Mikomägi
6. BusyBot
Australian Busybot makes it easy to manage your personal and team tasks, directly in Slack. Turn any message into a task, and Busybot will automatically organize everything by channel. Quick. Simple. Efficient.
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Founders Damian Bramanis
7. Tars
Tars is building a new way to collect user input(e.g filling forms) on mobile. It is a chat like interface where a user replies to one question at a time and his reply is the input.
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Founders Ish Jindal and Vinit Agrawal
8. Botsociety
Botsociety is a tool to design, preview and export your chatbot. It takes just 4 clicks to start designing your bot conversation. Pick a name, a profile picture, and you are ready to go! Make an AVI or GIF out of your sketch.
You can now use it for marketing materials, promoted Facebook posts, and more!
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Founders Vittorio Banfi and Stefano Tombolini
9. Hunch
Hunch constantly monitors and analyzes complex acquisition, retention, referral, and revenue data and sends you reports in easy to understand language.
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Founders Sinisa Rakovic, Nikola Milenković and Aleksandar Djenic
10. Rocco
Rocco works directly with your team on slack as your AI-powered social media marketing assistant. Rocco handles content creation and posts for you on all your social media networks.
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Founders Shannon Lee and Sherman Lee
11. Botsify
Botsify helps you create facebook messenger chatbot for your business/page without any coding. You can rule based chatbots with our technology with no technical knowledge required.
Technical mates can go extra mile with Botsify by integrating their APIs with Chatbot to make it extra effective. People can do analysis on different behavior of their bots and also run marketing campaigns to the people who opted for it.
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Founders Usama Noman
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