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Best Communication Apps Companies in New York City, United States

The 90 best Communication Apps companies in New York City, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Geneva.

90companies tracked
$130.3Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
38have raised

Ranked: Best Communication Apps companies in New York City

#CompanyApp-install YoYDisclosed fundingLast roundEmployeesFounderTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1ChatSpin
Mobile application for video chatting
+35%———Allen Fox
Co-Founder
Proton MailFirebaseFacebook Login+13——
2iSharingSoft
Real-time location sharing app for family safety and peace of mind
+26%$40K125 mo ago5Yongjae Chuh
Co-Founder & CTO
WordPress Block EditorElementorWordPress+404 patents
Optimizing bandwidth for geofencing-based location tracking systems
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3Paltalk
Worlds leading online enterprise video chat application
+9%$6M266 mo ago19—DrupalPHPBootstrap+2037 patents
Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics
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4Keybase
Provider of identity mapping and secure messaging solutions with public keys
+8%$11M99 mo ago23—BootstrapAmazon Web ServicesMoment.js+6——
5Sending Labs
Platform building the web3 communications stack
—$12M36 mo ago4Jameel Lee
Co-Founder & Technology VP
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6HearMe
Mobile application to chat with anonymous users
—$1M41 mo ago11Adam Lippin
Founder & CEO
Webflow EcommerceWebflowcore-js+12——
7Geneva
Provider of an application for connecting people with shared interests
—$27M65 mo ago52—WebflowVimeoAmazon Web Services+184 patents
Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation
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8Emogi
Emotion driven creatives for consumer engagement
—$16M96 mo ago30————
9Teckst
Text messaging software for enterprises
—$8M87 mo ago1————
10Zebra
App-based platform for sharing photos and audio clips
—$1M59 mo ago2——143 patents
Advanced barcode imaging and scanning hardware with automated focus, lighting, and power management
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11Here
Limited information available
—$3M68 mo ago20Seth Harris
Co-Founder
WordPressTumblrMySQL+1494 patents
AI-driven dynamic object detection and multimodal location-based mapping technologies
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12muze
Tools provider to create, edit & share visual contents
—$5M75 mo ago—Grant Davis
Co-Founder
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13GroupMe
Provider of group messaging application
—$11M185 mo ago10—KaTeXFacebook LoginAngularJS+18——
14Tawkers
mobile messaging app
—$1M87 mo ago3Rachael Workman
Co-Founder and Director Brand Strategy
—2 patents
Integration of text messaging into social networking platforms
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15Wiper
Mobile phone cybersecurity tutorials and app for privacy and security
—$4M124 mo ago16——2 patents
Network traffic filtering and communication blocking for security and denial‑of‑service mitigation.
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16Confide
Secure, encrypted messaging app ensuring confidential digital communication and data privacy
—$4M123 mo ago2—Animate.cssBootstrapEnvoy+96 patents
Encrypted messaging platforms with anti‑screenshot content protection
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17Fade
Ephemeral messenger app
—$2M122 mo ago3————
18NGHBR
Mobile app for messaging and connecting with people
—$20K48 mo ago10————
19Toymail
Voice messaging app to connect with kids
—$2M123 mo ago10——10 patents
Networked interactive toys enabling communication with external devices and platforms
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20Bindle Chat
Group chat platform
—$3M129 mo ago—Chris Toy
Founder & CEO
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21Ditto
Event Planning app
—$1M176 mo ago—Jyri Engestrom
Founder & CEO
—34 patents
Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation
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22Piictu
Mobile app for photo conversations
—$2M169 mo ago—Jonathan Slimak
ex-CEO and Co-Founder
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23Zyptonite
Secure mobile communication app
—$2M115 mo ago12Antti Uusiheimala
Founder & CEO
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24Dynamite Labs
Face masking video chat app
—$2M130 mo ago8————
25Bababoo
Free and low cost international calling app
—$2M181 mo ago—Dan Lane
Co-founder
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26Tag App
Location sharing and messaging app
—$1M135 mo ago—Aneel Ranadive
Co-Founder & CEO
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27LiveProfile
Mobile messaging app
—$1M180 mo ago—Phil Karl
Co-Founder
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28Context App
Text on photo messaging service
—$1M150 mo ago—Ben Broca
Founder & CEO
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29Wuu
Ephemeral photo and artwork messaging app
—$275K104 mo ago—Paul Budnitz
Founder
———
30Jargon
Intelligent video calling platform
—$338K110 mo ago—Romanos Fessas
Co-Founder & CEO
—4 patents
Cross‑platform local network device discovery and communication protocols
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31Chumkee
Website troubleshooting assistance for URL errors and content upload issues
—$750K185 mo ago—David Aumonier
Co-Founder & CEO
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32Chatwala
Reaction based app for messages
—$625K147 mo ago6Tejpaul Bhatia
Co-Founder
———
33Whatt
Photo sharing and chat app
—$600K144 mo ago—Simon Berger-Perrin
Founder & CEO
———
34Fast Society
Group messaging app
—$275K187 mo ago—Michael Constantiner
Co-Founder
———
35Jigglist
Discovery and planning app
—$120K149 mo ago4————

Top 12 Communication Apps companies in New York City

#1
Seed · New York City, New York · founded 2021 · 4 employees
$12.5Mraised
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Platform building the web3 communications stack. It is the web3 native community chat app you need to engage, transact with, and reward your community. It also offers an open, secure web3 social infrastructure that powers decentralized user interactions.

Funding rounds
  • 2023Seed$250K
  • Feb 2023Seed$12.5M
Founders & team
Jameel LeeCo-Founder & Technology VPMason YangCo-FounderJoeyz YuCo-Founder
Investors
Insignia Ventures Partners, Mindworks Capital, Signum Capital, K3, Lingfeng Capital, UpHonest Capital
#2
Seed · New York City, New York · founded 2018 · 11 employees
$1Mraised
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HearMe is a mobile application which allows users to chat with someone anonymously. It connects the users with HearMe listeners and users can share and discuss their work & productivity, school, relationships, LGBTQIA and Identity. It allows users to have 20 minutes of conversation with listeners.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2023Seed$302.5K
  • Sep 2022Seed$718.9K
Founders & team
Adam LippinFounder & CEO
Investors
TCV, Gaingels
Tech stack
CloudflareCore-JsGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiGoogle Hosted LibrariesGoogle Workspace
#3
Series B · New York City, New York · founded 2019 · 52 employees
$26.5Mraised
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Provider of an application for connecting people with shared interests. The application enables users to discover groups, chat, meet new people, and plan events. It offers communication tools, including chat rooms, audio rooms, forum rooms, broadcast rooms, and video rooms.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2021Series B$12.3M
  • Aug 2020Series B$14.2M
  • Mar 2020Seed—
Investors
Base Partners, CASSIUS, G9 Ventures, HOF Capital
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsFacebook Pixel
#4
Deadpooled · New York City, New York · founded 2011 · 30 employees
$15.7Mraised
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Emogi builds emotion driven advertising solutions that helps in consumer engagement through the use of emojis. Brands run Emogi enabled ad units on any inventory. Emotion Engine combines this data with emotional, cognitive and behavioral sciences for meaningful insights in real time. The technology platform combines emoji, big data, machine learning to provide brands with emotional intelligence about consumers. Provides dashboard to view A/B splits and monitor trends, compare Emotion Index, Relevancy Index, dwell time against benchmarks.

Funding rounds
  • May 2018Series A$12.6M
  • Jan 2017Seed$2.5M
  • Aug 2014Seed$570K
Investors
Hatzimemos / Libby, KDC
#5
Acqui-Hired · New York City, New York · founded 2014 · 1 employees
$8.1Mraised
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Eckst is a cloud-based texting platform. Businesses of all sizes can use Teckst to communicate with their customers from confirming a reservation to texting with an airline to reschedule a flight. Charges businesses for usage. Small businesses can log in from any device with internet (no apps needed). Enterprise solutions are directly incorporated into CRM software platforms. Supports integartion with Salesforce, Desk, Helpscout.

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2019Series A$3.1M
  • Apr 2016Seed$2.5M
  • Jun 2015Seed$110K
Investors
Zelkova Ventures, Kernel Capital, Gaingels
#6
Deadpooled · New York City, New York · founded 2019 · 2 employees
$1.1Mraised
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App-based platform for sharing photos and audio clips. Users can add voice messages to the photos snapped and connect in real-time with friends. The app will be available for iOS users.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2021Seed$1.1M
Investors
Seven Seven Six
#7
Seed · New York City, New York · founded 2020 · 20 employees
$2.9Mraised
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Developer of a web-based video communication platform designed to enable teams and communities to hang out together online in customized and personalized rooms. The company's platform offers a real-time shared space where people meet up to video chat, write, draw, upload pics and gifs, decorate, and move around, enabling users to connect and collaborate with each other over virtual video on a real-time basis.

Funding rounds
  • Oct 2020Seed$2.9M
  • Aug 2020Seed—
Founders & team
Seth HarrisCo-FounderJesse BoyesCTO and Co-Founder
Investors
Y Combinator, FirstMark, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, Uncommon Projects, Company Ventures
Tech stack
AirtableBackbone.JsComscoreCore-JsFacebook PixelFirebase
#8
Series A · New York City, New York · founded 2019
$4.9Mraised
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Tools provider to create, edit & share visual contents

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2020Series A$4.9M
Founders & team
Grant DavisCo-Founder
Investors
Village Global, True Ventures, BoxGroup, Tribe Capital, Uncommon Denominator, Banana Capital
#9
Acquired · New York City, New York · founded 2013 · 23 employees
$10.8Mraised
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Provider of identity mapping and secure messaging solutions with public keys. The platform provides a protocol for people to sign statements and announce them to the public. They claim to help make using keys more secure and understandable by providing a public key infrastructure for cryptography. The platform provides a tool that protects user identity via encryption using the public key associated with the user while the user may try to access a plethora of applications.

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2018Series A—
  • Jul 2015Series A$10.8M
Investors
Andreessen Horowitz, Corazon Capital, Stellar
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesBootstrapGoogle WorkspaceHsts
#10
Acquired · New York City, New York · founded 2010 · 10 employees
$11.4Mraised
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Provider of group messaging application. The app allows users to attach and send pictures, send private messages, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 100.0% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2011Series B$10.6M
  • Aug 2010Series A$850K
Investors
Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Lerer Hippeau, General Catalyst, SV Angel, Founder Collective
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApple Sign-InAzureAzure Monitor
#11
Deadpooled · New York City, New York · founded 2011 · 3 employees
$1.4Mraised
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Tawkers is a mobile messaging app that lets users capture and share moments from text conversations. It allows users to read the open conversations, lets them capture and share the favourite conversations with their friends and relatives. Users can also share the conversations posted on Tawkers with social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. As of June 2016, this app was released for only iOS platform.

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2019Conventional Debt$140K
  • Sep 2012Seed$1M
  • Nov 2011Seed$360K
Founders & team
Rachael WorkmanCo-Founder and Director Brand StrategyBlake IanCEO and Co-Founder
#12
Seed · New York City, New York · founded 2014 · 16 employees
$4.5Mraised
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Mobile phone cybersecurity tutorials and app for privacy and security. This platform provides educational resources and tools focused on enhancing mobile device protection against online threats and hacking attacks. It offers tutorials on various cybersecurity topics, including securing smartphones, protecting personal information, and understanding vulnerabilities in mobile operating systems. The platform also features an innovative end-to-end encrypted application designed to provide users with secure communication options, such as private chatting and calling. Key features include message deletion capabilities and screenshot notifications. The goal is to empower users with the knowledge and resources needed to safeguard their mobile devices and maintain privacy in an increasingly interconnected world. This is a B2C tech company offering software and tutorials.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2016Seed$2M
  • Jul 2014Seed$2.5M
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpBootstrapContact Form 7Wp Fastest Cache

Funding & investor landscape

$130.3Mtotal disclosed funding
37companies funded
58disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Betaworks5 rounds
BoxGroup4 rounds
Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator3 rounds
SV Angel3 rounds
Techstars3 rounds
First Round Capital2 rounds
Gaingels2 rounds
Lerer Hippeau2 rounds
Lifeline Ventures2 rounds
SoftBank Capital2 rounds

Notable founders

Jameel Lee
Co-Founder & Technology VP · Sending Labs
Mason Yang
Co-Founder · Sending Labs
Adam Lippin
Founder & CEO · HearMe
Seth Harris
Co-Founder · Here
Jesse Boyes
CTO and Co-Founder · Here
Grant Davis
Co-Founder · muze
Rachael Workman
Co-Founder and Director Brand Strategy · Tawkers
Blake Ian
CEO and Co-Founder · Tawkers
Chris Toy
Founder & CEO · Bindle Chat
Jyri Engestrom
Founder & CEO · Ditto
Jonathan Slimak
ex-CEO and Co-Founder · Piictu
Antti Uusiheimala
Founder & CEO · Zyptonite
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 11,423,205 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Communication Apps coverage by sub-theme.

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Funding & growth over time

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Common questions

How many Communication Apps companies are there in New York City, United States?
Radar tracks 90 indexable Communication Apps companies headquartered in New York City, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Communication Apps companies in New York City, United States?
The Communication Apps companies in New York City, United States on this list have raised a combined $130.3M in disclosed equity funding across 37 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Communication Apps company in New York City, United States?
Geneva is the highest-funded Communication Apps company in New York City, United States, with $26.5M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Communication Apps companies in New York City, United States are funded?
37 of the 90 Communication Apps companies in New York City, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Communication Apps unicorns are there in New York City, United States?
None of the Communication Apps companies in New York City, United States on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in New York City, United States Communication Apps companies?
The most active investors in New York City, United States Communication Apps companies on this list include Betaworks, BoxGroup, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, SV Angel, Techstars.
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