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LimeChat builds and runs AI agents that handle customer conversations across chat and voice, taking enterprises from AI pilot to production, with agents that get better as they scale.

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Owner: Nikhil Gupta · Kept fresh by Anoushka Bhatia (Founder's Office) · Last reviewed: 13 Oct 2026 · Questions: #general

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Founded 2020

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Y Combinator W21

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Chat + voice AI agents

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HQ: Bengaluru

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Mission

Build AI agents that run the full customer lifecycle, across chat and voice, reliably in production.

Vision

An AI workforce across every customer conversation.

Read more in Vision, mission and values.

What we do

Businesses talk to millions of customers on WhatsApp, phone calls, web chat, Instagram, email and SMS. LimeChat's AI agents handle those conversations across the whole customer lifecycle:

Qualify leads → Convert → Onboard → Support → Retain

Customers build and change their agents in Agentic Studio, our agent-building platform. It combines predictable, step-by-step flows with LLM reasoning, so agents stay reliable in production. Around it sit our Voice AI, CRM Helpdesk, Marketing platform, Knowledge Base, Test Benches & Audits and Web Chat widget.

Two things make us different:

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We get agents into production, not just pilots.

Our forward-deployed teams scope, build and take agents live with the customer.

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Our agents keep improving as they scale.

Every build is tested, audited and traced, so quality goes up with usage instead of down.

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See ‣ for the full product picture.

Who we serve

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Our story

Year Milestone
2020–2022 Starting with commerce on WhatsApp
Mar 2020 LimeChat founded by Nikhil Gupta and Aniket Bajpai, backed early by Titan Capital.
Aug–Oct 2020 First customer, and our first chatbot launched.
Nov 2020 Selected for Y Combinator (W21 batch).
2021 Pre-seed and seed rounds from pi Ventures, Stellaris Venture Partners and others. HQ moved to Bengaluru, and the team crossed 25 people.
2022 First international customers in Malaysia, Singapore and South Africa.
2023–2024 The GenAI shift
2023 First US customers (e.g. True Classic). First GPT-powered question answering (Wow Skin Science).
2024 India's first GPT-powered end-to-end pre- and post-purchase bot for e-commerce (Kapiva). 20+ GPT bots in production by December.
2025 From D2C to enterprise AI agents
Jan–Feb 2025 Our first BFSI proof of concept and the start of our enterprise push. Gurugram (Delhi NCR) office opened.
May 2025 New AI-agent positioning and website.
Aug 2025 Voice AI launched. Company hackathon and offsite, where we reorganised into Enterprise and Mid-Market teams and adopted our updated values.
4 Sep 2025 Bot Builder went live in production. It is the foundation of Agentic Studio.
Oct–Dec 2025 WhatsApp calling, inbound and outbound, went live on our CRM. LimeChat was featured by Reuters and named in LinkedIn's Top Startups India 2025.
2026 Enterprise scale
Jan 2026 LimeChat AI Evaluations v1 (audits and test benches) and full WhatsApp voice calling.
Mar 2026 LimeChat turned 6.
5 May 2026 Agentic Studio launched, our biggest launch yet.
Jun–Aug 2026 Major enterprise wins across BFSI, telecom, consumer and education.
Jul 2026 Meta's "Excellence in Messaging Innovation" award at the WhatsApp Business Summit. Knowledge Base launched.
Jul–Aug 2026 LimeChat became a Meta Business Solution Partner.
Sep 2026 Test Benches live for every build. Times of India "AI in Customer Experience in India" award. Our annual offsite.