8 AI Startups Powering Enterprises

From automating workflows to improving decision-making, these companies help businesses streamline operations, increase productivity, and remain ahead of the competition.

AI is no longer just for IT giants and specialised professionals; it is now available to enterprises of all sizes. Startups, in particular, are leading the way, tackling challenging problems with innovative AI solutions. From automating workflows to improving decision-making, these companies help businesses streamline operations, increase productivity, and remain ahead of the competition. Here are some of the most inventive artificial intelligence startups that are now boosting businesses.

Decagon

Founded: 2023
Founders: Jesse Zhang and Ashwin Sreenivas
About: Decagon empowers enterprises with AI-driven customer service automation, enabling them to scale support operations efficiently while enhancing customer experience. Its generative AI agents handle complex inquiries across multiple channels, providing personalized responses, auto-resolving issues, and seamlessly integrating with existing workflows and data sources. By automating up to 80% of customer interactions, Decagon reduces operational costs, alleviates human agent workload, and ensures 24/7 availability. Additionally, its AI copilot assists live agents, while advanced analytics uncover key insights to optimize service strategies. Leading enterprises like Bilt, ClassPass, and Substack have leveraged Decagon to streamline support, boost resolution rates, and deliver seamless, AI-powered customer engagement.

Calltree

Founded: 2025
Founders: Kun Qian and Robertson Taylor
About: Calltree AI helps enterprises streamline call center operations by identifying workflow inefficiencies and quantifying their financial impact. By analyzing millions of minutes of call recordings and screen activity, Calltree pinpoints costly inefficiencies—such as excessive toggling between legacy systems or manual data entry—and provides actionable insights. It calculates the time and cost of each inefficiency, enabling operations leaders to prioritize fixes with clear business cases. Once changes are implemented, Calltree measures the before-and-after impact, proving cost reductions and unlocking millions in operational savings.

Canvas

Founded: 2024
Founder: Essam Sleiman
About: Canvas AI transforms enterprise customer success teams by turning fragmented data into actionable insights, enabling proactive engagement instead of reactive account management. By automatically identifying risks and growth opportunities, Canvas empowers teams to reduce churn, strengthen customer relationships, and drive revenue expansion. It consolidates data into a unified source of truth, generates real-time reports to showcase ROI, and streamlines onboarding, support, and product adoption. With AI-driven automation, Canvas helps enterprises scale customer success efficiently, ensuring long-term retention and sustainable growth.

Credal.ai

Founded: 2022
Founders: Ravin Thambapillai, Jack Fischer 
About: Credal.ai is an enterprise AI platform designed to build secure, access-controlled Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications, enabling businesses to leverage generative AI while ensuring data security and compliance. It integrates data from multiple sources, enforces strict access controls, and provides advanced search capabilities across an organization’s information ecosystem. With a secure API, Credal allows seamless AI integration into enterprise applications, while its pre-built UI frameworks and low-code/no-code tools empower teams to deploy AI workflows without heavy developer reliance. By prioritizing security, ease of use, and scalability, Credal helps enterprises unlock AI-driven efficiencies while maintaining full control over sensitive data.

People.ai

Founded: 2016
Founders: Oleg Rogynskyy
About: People.ai helps enterprises drive revenue growth by automating the collection, enrichment, and integration of sales data into their CRMs, creating a reliable foundation for AI-driven insights. By capturing go-to-market data from sources like email systems, People.ai eliminates guesswork, providing sales, marketing, and operations teams with real-time visibility into every account. This intelligence enables enterprises to identify opportunities, optimize pipeline growth, and close deals faster. Trusted by companies like Zoom and PTC, People.ai serves as a next-generation revenue engine, helping businesses make data-driven decisions that maximize efficiency and profitability in an increasingly competitive market.

Outlit

Founded: 2024
Founders: Josh Earle and Leo Paz
About: Outlit empowers enterprise dealmakers with an AI-first platform that automates every stage of the deal-making process, from pricing to approval, enabling revenue teams to close deals faster and more efficiently. By eliminating manual tasks, Outlit accelerates deal execution with AI-driven recommendations for pricing, negotiation, and deal scoring. Its Command Center provides real-time insights and automates approvals, reducing bottlenecks and optimizing decision-making. Trusted by leaders at companies like Stripe, Uber, and LinkedIn, Outlit helps enterprises streamline sales operations, enhance pricing strategies, and drive revenue growth in a highly competitive market.

Andoria

Founded: 2024
Founders: Daryl Budiman and Anirudh Ramprasad
About: Andoria empowers enterprises by automating manual workflows and enhancing user engagement through AI-driven customer assistance. Its intelligent agent learns how web applications function and provides real-time, interactive walkthroughs to guide users through tasks, reducing reliance on static documentation and minimizing churn. By streamlining design, content management, and publishing processes, Andoria helps businesses increase efficiency, eliminate repetitive tasks, and enable employees to focus on high-value work. With a simple script integration, enterprises can instantly enhance user adoption, improve customer retention, and scale their operations more effectively in an increasingly digital landscape.

Cyera

Founded: 2021
Founder: Yotam Segev and Tamar Bar-Ilan
About: Cyera empowers enterprises to secure their most critical asset—data—by providing comprehensive visibility, context, and control across cloud environments. Its AI-driven platform automates data discovery, classification, and risk assessment, enabling organizations to proactively address security threats, prevent data breaches, and maintain regulatory compliance. With advanced capabilities like Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), identity access analysis, and intelligent data loss prevention, Cyera helps businesses mitigate risks while accelerating data-driven initiatives. By seamlessly integrating security into enterprise data strategies, Cyera ensures that organizations can innovate with confidence while safeguarding sensitive information.

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Anshika Mathews
Anshika is the Senior Content Strategist for AIM Research. She holds a keen interest in technology and related policy-making and its impact on society. She can be reached at anshika.mathews@aimresearch.co
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