Top Messaging Startups in 2024

Pendo helps people adopt software more quickly and successfully. Pendo customers include the world’s leading software companies and digital enterprises, including Verizon, RE/MAX, LabCorp, OpenTable, Okta, Salesforce, and Zendesk. Founded in 2013 in the heart of Raleigh, North Carolina, Pendo is backed by Battery Ventures, Spark Capital, Meritech Capital and Sapphire Ventures. Through its ProductCraft and customer communities, sponsored events and podcast, Pendo aims to support the success of product and digital leaders everywhere. For more information, visit: pendo.io

Sendbird is trusted by 4000 of the world’s most popular apps – including DoorDash, Match Group, Noom, and Yahoo Sports – to power messages between businesses and over 300 Million people every month; to build relationships and get things done. The company offers an award-winning communication platform that modern digital experiences are built on, unlocking the potential of unified customer communications across omnichannel business messaging, in-app chat, voice, video, and AI virtual assistants. Headquartered in California, Sendbird is backed by ICONIQ, Softbank, Tiger Global Management, Y Combinator, and other reputable investors.

Manychat is a Meta Official Business Partner, backed by top investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, and one of America's Best Startup Employers. With 110+ teammates across three global offices — New York, Barcelona, and Yerevan — Manychat helps more than one million businesses worldwide interact with billions of customers in real-time at scale. No matter the use case — generating leads, increasing engagement, providing 24/7 customer support, accepting payments, and beyond — Manychat helps businesses improve their ROI and grow faster.

Since our very first day in 2015, mattermost has never wavered on its goal to transform the enterprise collaboration market by delivering the most compelling open source, high-trust messaging tools for security-conscious enterprises and developers. we’ve grown from our very first customer to thousands of companies downloading our messaging platform every month.

Cubby’s mission is to empower self-storage operators to grow their independent and family-owned businesses in the face of massive institutionalization. There are more than 70,000 self-storage properties in North America. They’re operated by more than 35,000 independent business owners who provide service to tenants in times of tremendous life change. Whether moving across the country for a new job opportunity or moving on after a family death or divorce, self-storage tenants find tremendous value from a high-quality renting experience. So much value, in fact, that self-storage is the fastest growing asset class in commercial real estate by value, surpassing $50 billion annually in the U.S. last year. The lending market in this asset class is growing as well, with over $10 billion trading hands annually. Additional investor interest is pouring in, and with it, tremendous pressure to compete at the highest level. If you want to build technology that’s valued by more than 1 in 10 Americans renting a storage unit, the near minimum wage managers looking for a way to earn their bonus, and the independent owners, lenders, and investors that make up this industry, we'd love to chat. We’re a seed-stage team of 20+ experienced software professionals already closing significant customers. lucky enough to be backed by a phenomenal group of investors and 28+ of the industry’s most influential advisors, giving us the access and resources to build things right and think for the long term. Our product allows self-storage operators to market, lease, and manage their properties while seamlessly receiving payments and financing. We serve 3 persona categories: Leads, Tenants, and Operators. Operators captures 3 primary levels: store manager, district manager, and business owner which ascend in seniority.

We are privileged to have Google, Pershing Square and Salesforce among our philanthropic investors (~$30M raised since our launch in 2013), and to count over 400 healthcare organizations nationwide as customers. Together, we are transforming the lives of over 10 million Medicaid and uninsured patients by reaching them through their mobile devices and transforming their health outcomes, having facilitated over 250M communications between safety-net providers and patients, CareMessage truly is a mission-driven organization delivering measurable clinical outcomes for the underserved.

We, at Rasayel (rasayel.io), are a small, sharp-focused and deliberate product team. We built Rasayel to connect businesses to the most popular messaging channels (WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, etc) out there. We seek to create an experience that helps businesses fulfill their transactions with their customers in a reliable, scalable, fast, simple, omni, near-native and contextual manner. We want to make business messaging easier for the business owner.

Intercom is the world’s first customer platform helping internet businesses accelerate growth. Thanks to the internet, the way people communicate is drastically different than it was 10, even 5 years ago. Messengers like WhatsApp have become the preferred mode of communication in every aspect of consumers’ lives, and now that switch is happening with businesses too. Intercom builds a suite of messaging-first products that all modern internet businesses can use to accelerate growth across the customer lifecycle- from acquisition, to engagement, and support. Today more than 25,000 businesses, including New Relic, Sotheby’s, and Shopify, use Intercom to connect with a billion unique people worldwide.

Regroup is the leading Mass Messaging System. With the click of a button, you can easily message contacts via Text message, Voice message, Facebook, Twitter, Email, and your own website. Regroup is the official emergency notifications partner for Datatel and Sungard Higher Education (Ellucian). Regroup is a market leader in ease of use, value, message speed and reliability, and integrations. Regroup regularly saves organizations money while improving internal and external communications.

The secure, cloud-based communications platform that connects markets and individuals, Symphony promotes collaboration and increases workflow productivity while maintaining organizational compliance. Founded in October 2014 and headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, the company has offices in New York, Chicago, Boston, Hong Kong, Singapore and London. Symphony has raised $170 million from the world’s largest financial institutions and recognized investors. To sign up for Symphony, find out more about the company and keep up on the latest news, visit symphony.com.