Top 11 Call Center Automation startups

Updated: Mar 22, 2026
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These startups develop contact-center software for customer support management, automated call routing and performance analytics.
1
Talkdesk
Country: Portugal | Funding: $592.5M
Talkdesk offers customer communcation platform that allows to create and orchestrate AI agents for the entire customer journey - from handling requests to interacting with teams.
2
RingCentral
Country: USA | Funding: $1.7B
RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
3
Five9
Country: USA | Funding: $861.6M
Five9 is a cloud-based call center software company that specializes in sales, marketing, and customer service.
4
8x8
Country: USA | Funding: $453.1M
8x8 offers secure and reliable cloud-based, enterprise-class business phone systems, unified communications, and contact center solutions.
5
Dialpad
Country: USA | Funding: $450M
Dialpad offers a cloud-based business phone solution simplified for every business.
6
Cresta
Country: USA | Funding: $276M
Cresta is a developer of an artificial intelligence platform, designed to help scale and improve the quality of customer services. The company's artificial intelligence assistant surfaces the right information at the right time from sales agents and augments the rest of the team by increasing their conversion rate and efficiency, enabling organizations to double the productivity of their sales team.
7
Aircall
Country: France | Funding: $237.6M
Aircall is an advanced call center software, complete business phone and contact center 100% natively integrated in any CRM.
8
Parloa
Country: Germany | Funding: $212M
Parloa is a Conversational AI platform for automating omnichannel customer service in phone bots or chatbots.
9
Replicant
Country: USA | Funding: $113M
Replicant is a contact center automation software that helps companies automate their most common customer service requests. Replicant uses AI to provide agents with call summaries and measures trends like overall customer satisfaction, average handle time, competitor mentions, defective products and upsell opportunities.
10
Skit
Country: India | Funding: $28.1M
Skit enables enterprises to automate their contact centre operations using Voice AI.
11
Loris
Country: USA | Funding: $19.1M
Loris provides a one-click intelligence layer for digital companies providing support for customer service conversations in real-time.
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Fernando Lopez is a senior editor for SaaStartups. He joined the company after having previously spent over three years at ReadWriteWeb. Prior to his work as a reporter, Fernando worked in I.T. across a number of industries, including banking, retail and software. Fernando graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (Computer Science). He is more-than-averagely interested in photography and can often be found with a camera slung over his shoulder. He wrote a book about pitching startups to investors. You can contact Fernando at fernandolopez(at)saastartups(dot)com