Top Messaging Startups in 2024

3Box Labs is a crypto company focused on building protocols and tools for Web3 application development. We're inventors of Ceramic, the high-performance data layer for building real-time Web3 data applications. Ceramic enables user data sovereignty, multi-application data interoperability, and is used by the leading distributed web projects and protocols. Founded in 2018, 3Box Labs is a remote-first, globally-distributed team backed by world-class investors like USV, Multicoin, Placeholder, and many more.

At Clerk Chat we are redefining telecommunication with AI and making every business conversational. Thousands of customers use Clerk Chat to send millions of messages per day for their own sales, support, and marketing needs. Our culture is defined by transparency, ownership, curiosity, experimentation, persistence, continuous learning, and laughter. We value the well-being of our team members and foster an environment where everyone feels empowered to contribute and grow, personally and professionally.

Institute of Free Technology provides the Technical, Financial, Legal, People Operations, Branding & awareness services to a wide portfolio of open source projects. Currently our growing portfolio includes Status, Logos, Codex, Waku, Nimbus, Nomos, Keycard. More about each project, here: free.technology As a team, IFT is completely distributed since inception. Our team is currently 200+ core contributors strong, and welcomes a growing number of community members from all walks of life, scattered all around the globe. We care deeply about open source, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization's priorities.

LifeLink is the conversational engagement platform for healthcare. We work with some of the largest healthcare systems and pharma companies in the country to reach their patients on mobile and messaging, with personalized, natural, and contextual conversations. LifeLink chatbots automate thousands of high-value patient touchpoints before, during, and after healthcare visits, resulting in improved operational efficiency, increased customer satisfaction, and superior brand loyalty.

360dialog is providing GDPR-compliant API solutions for WhatsApp Business. 360dialog is one of few official Business Solution Partners (BSP) of WhatsApp/Meta. Such BSPs have direct access to the WhatsApp Business API and cater brands which want to offer their customers communication at scale via WhatsApp. 360dialog is focused on brands & partners who are tech savvy and prefer to integrate via API. So we are a great place for backend developers and SysOps. We have created building blocks for conversational use cases and provide all the data that marketers need to optimize their WhatsApp conversations.

Privacy is possible. Signal Messenger makes it easy. At Signal, our goal is to develop open source privacy technology that protects privacy rights, promotes free expression and enables secure global communication. We believe that private messaging should be simple and ubiquitous. Signal combines state-of-the-art security and end-to-end encryption with the features that users expect in a modern messaging application. Millions of people use Signal every day to speak freely, and a growing list of organizations have integrated the open source Signal Protocol into messaging platforms that support billions of users.

We’re on a mission to optimize the world’s teaching and learning. We're assembling a world-class team of engineers, designers, pedagogists and more to solve problems in teaching and learning.

We’re dreamers. Inventors. Pioneers. Constantly challenging the status quo, always on the lookout for breakthroughs. We’re building technological marvels and creating experiences that humanize technology. From AI to real time communication, speech to sentiment analytics, we’re reinventing how businesses and customers communicate. Proudly cash-flow positive, we are funded by our customers, not gamblers.

While we are primarily focused on developing our own products, we also help other businesses as technical consultants and engineers. Check out our portfolio here: mutantx.xyz We have two teams at M(X): ALPHA & BRAVO. Alpha team is engineering-focused on end-to-end products: build, launch & maintain. Products like TalkStock (talkstock.in), Tribepod (tribe-pod.com), Sputnik, SalesRaja and WonUpIt (wonup.it). Bravo team is design-focused, primarily involved with client project work: branding, web design, app design, website development and content strategy. Clients include HealthAssure, FlashField, Gigabark, Cogent InfoTech, Cryptic Intel, Michezo Sports, Svasa Homes, VFM Honda, VFM EV, Honda BigWing BLR, Bada Da Dhaba and more. Each "Mutant" at M(X) joins us with a core speciality: something that you are incredibly good at. From there, you must mutate your skills, gaining access to new tools, tech and methods to achieve more efficient and powerful results with your work. Our focus is on our engineers, creators and do'ers. Join us if you want to do your life's best work at a team built by engineers & designers, for engineers & designers.