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Atlassian produces software that helps teams work together more efficiently and more effectively. The company provides project planning and management software, collaboration tools, and service desk solutions. Atlassian was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

Twilio is a cloud-based communications platform-as-a-service company offering communication building blocks that allow for a fully customized customer engagement experience spanning voice, video, chat, and SMS messaging. It does this through various application programming interfaces and prebuilt solution applications aimed at improving customer engagement. The company leverages its Super Network, a global network of carrier relationships, to facilitate high-speed, cost-effective communication.

Telegram is a cloud-based instant messaging platform supporting text, voice, video calls, file sharing up to 2GB, and channels for broadcasts to unlimited subscribers. Available on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux, it offers end-to-end encrypted Secret Chats, self-destructing messages, and bot APIs for automation. Telegram operates servers in multiple data centers worldwide, serving users across 200 countries with synchronization across unlimited devices.

Zoom Communications provides a video-first communications platform that connects people through frictionless video, voice, chat, and content sharing. The company’s cloud-native platform enables video experiences and connects users across various devices and locations in a single meeting. Zoom has launched a variety of communications-related solutions, including Zoom Phone and Zoom Contact Center. The firm was founded in 2011 and serves companies of all sizes from all industries around the world.

Discord is a voice, video, and text communication platform originally built for gamers, now serving communities in music, education, and hobbies. The service supports servers with channels, screen sharing, and mobile apps. San Francisco-headquartered Discord, launched in 2015, hosts millions of daily active users worldwide.

Iflytek Co Ltd is a China-based company, principally engaged in the software and information technology (IT) service businesses. The company’s business includes intelligent application systems, software for voice and speech recognition and conversion, computer software design services, and computer programming services. The company's main products include AI language learning products, AI learning machines, AI diagnosis and treatment assistant products, smart medical devices, the iFLYTEK Hearing Smart Conference System, the iFLYTEK Spark App, the iFLYTEK Smart Office Book, the iFLYTEK Translator, and others.

Notion is a San Francisco-headquartered productivity platform founded in 2016 that integrates note-taking, databases, task management, and wikis into customizable workspaces. It supports templates for CRM, project tracking, and content calendars, with integrations to Slack, Google Calendar, and GitHub, plus AI features for text generation and summarization serving millions of users worldwide.

Instinct is a San Francisco start-up that builds a personal AI assistant, legally operated by Spear Street Technology Inc. and founded by Noah Shinn, a former Sierra employee. The assistant takes requests by text, phone call or WhatsApp and then uses a phone and a computer much as a person would, handling email, calendars, bookings, grocery orders and other everyday tasks. Access has been invite-only since a private beta that began in February 2026, and the company has about 14 employees. It raised a seed round at a $50 million valuation, a $75 million Series A led by Kleiner Perkins at $500 million, a $250 million Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at $2.5 billion in August 2026, and a $1 billion Series C from Sequoia Capital, Benchmark and Coatue at $10 billion in September 2026. No acquisition or investment made by the company itself is documented.

Talkdesk is a cloud contact center platform integrating AI for customer service across sales, support, and operations. The company deploys Industry Experience Clouds for verticals like retail and healthcare, enhanced by generative AI for agent empowerment and personalization. Talkdesk serves global enterprises with pre-built solutions deployed in multiple languages.

Dropbox provides cloud storage and content collaboration tools, focusing on individuals and small to midsize businesses. Founded in 2007, Dropbox was a pioneer in the file sync and share market. In recent years, the firm has been emphasizing its Dash product, which facilitates AI-powered universal search across unstructured cloud data.

Gong is a San Francisco-headquartered revenue intelligence company, with its main research and development centre in Israel, whose platform captures and analyses sales calls, emails and web meetings. Its software uses artificial intelligence to transcribe customer conversations, flag deal risks, forecast pipeline and coach sales representatives, and it integrates with CRM systems such as Salesforce. Gong serves business-to-business revenue teams; its customers include half of the Fortune 10 as well as Anthropic, Cisco, DocuSign, Google, ADP and Thomson Reuters. The company sells its platform on a subscription basis and announced in May 2026 that its annual recurring revenue run rate had reached USD 500 million, growing more than 55 percent year over year. Gong raised USD 584 million of venture funding, most recently a USD 250 million Series E in 2021 led by Franklin Templeton at a USD 7.25 billion valuation, with Sequoia Capital, Coatue, Thrive Capital, Tiger Global and Salesforce Ventures among its investors. A secondary sale for employees and investors at about USD 4.5 billion was reported in late 2025. Gong was founded in 2015 by Amit Bendov, its chief executive, and Eilon Reshef.

Attentive is a New York City-based provider of AI-powered text-message and email marketing software for retail and e-commerce brands. Its platform lets brands collect subscribers through sign-up units, send personalized campaigns and automated journeys, and hold two-way conversations over SMS, email and RCS business messaging. Brian Long and Andrew Jones, who earlier founded the mobile advertising start-up TapCommerce, which Twitter acquired, started the company in 2016, and it has offices in San Francisco, London and Sydney. Attentive serves more than 8,000 brands, reported $500 million in annual recurring revenue in 2024, and says customer campaigns generated about $1.8 billion of online sales over Cyber Week 2023. It sells the platform as software as a service. Funding includes a $230 million Series D led by Coatue at a $2.2 billion valuation in September 2020 and a $470 million Series E in March 2021. Amit Jhawar, formerly chief executive of Venmo, became chief executive in June 2023, and the company had about 1,500 employees in March 2025.

RingCentral is a unified communications as a service, or UCaaS, provider. Its software helps users communicate and collaborate via voice, video, and messaging across all device types and all from one platform. RingCentral helps customers modernize and move from legacy on-premises systems to modern, cloud-based systems. Beyond its core RingCentral MVP solution, RingCentral also offers a cloud-based contact center solution, a stand-alone video meetings solution, and webinars.

Box is a cloud-based content management platform that provides storage and workflow collaboration services for enterprise customers. The firm was founded in 2005 as a file, sync, and share provider. Over time, it built out and acquired workflow and security tools to evolve the pure-play FSS business into a content management business. Most recently, Box has been pursuing an AI-powered, intelligent content management strategy that can allow for metadata extraction and workflow automation.

NICE Ltd. is an Israeli public enterprise-software company founded in 1986 and headquartered in Ra'anana. The company develops cloud and on-premises software for customer engagement and for financial crime and compliance management. Its CXone platform provides contact-center routing, digital self-service, workforce engagement and related customer-experience applications. Through NICE Actimize, it supplies fraud prevention, anti-money-laundering, trading surveillance and investigation software to financial institutions and regulators. NICE serves businesses and public-sector organizations through subscriptions, licenses and associated services. The 2007 purchase of Actimize expanded NICE from interaction analytics into enterprise financial crime and compliance analytics, and Actimize remains a named part of its product portfolio.

Tata Communications Ltd is the primary provider of international and national voice and data transmission long-distance services, internet dial-up and broadband services and other value-added services. The company’s reportable segments are Voice Solutions (VS), Data and Managed Services (DMS) and Real Estate (RE). It generates maximum revenue from Data and Managed Services (DMS) segment.

Lumine Group Inc acquires, strengthens, and grows vertical market software businesses in the Communications and Media industry. The company's software solutions are designed to enable customers to boost productivity and operate more cost effectively, innovate more rapidly to address rapidly changing market needs and opportunities, grow top-line sales, improve customer service, and reduce customer churn.

Wonderful is a Dutch/Israeli enterprise AI platform for deploying conversational agents across voice, chat, and email channels. The system handles multilingual customer interactions, integrates with CRM and ERP tools like Salesforce and SAP, and executes actions such as booking or refunds. Oversight tools provide real-time supervision, audit logs, and performance comparisons between AI and human agents. Wonderful serves global enterprises ensuring compliance with GDPR and SOC 2 standards through granular permissions and analytics dashboards.