Clickatell

AI-powered chat commerce platform — SMS, WhatsApp & payments since 2000

Founded in Cape Town in 2000, Clickatell made history as the first company to connect internet-based businesses with mobile consumers via SMS. Now headquartered in Redwood City, CA, it serves 10,000+ customers across 230+ countries with an AI-enabled Chat Commerce Platform spanning banking, retail, telecoms, airlines, and healthcare. Clickatell's platform combines enterprise SMS (Connect), AI-driven chatbot conversations (Interact), and in-chat payment processing (Transact), including the world-first tokenized WhatsApp payments via its Visa-partnered Chat 2 Pay product. It holds top Meta BSP status in South Africa and is PCI-DSS, ISO27001, and SOC2 Type 2 certified. Backed by $113M in Series C funding, the company reported 224% Chat Commerce growth in 2024.