Botpress is an AI agent platform that lets developers and businesses build, deploy, and monitor conversational agents powered by large language models. The platform provides a visual builder, integrations across messaging and web channels, a custom inference engine called LLMz for handling multi-step logic, and observability for production deployments.
The company was founded in 2017 in Quebec City, Canada by Sylvain Perron, who serves as chief executive, and Justin Watson. Botpress originally built an open-source conversational AI framework that gained traction with developers, and has since evolved into a commercial platform centred on LLM-native AI agents that can reason, call tools, and integrate with existing business systems.
Botpress raised a US$15 million Series A in April 2021 led by Decibel with participation from Inovia Capital, with Decibel's Jon Sakoda joining the board alongside the founders. The company then announced a US$25 million Series B in June 2025 led by Framework Venture Partners with participation from Deloitte Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, and returning investors Inovia Capital and Decibel. Public reporting also references Andreessen Horowitz support over the company's funding history.
The product targets both developers and enterprise builders. Developers use Botpress to wire up LLMs, tools, and data sources via code-friendly primitives, while less technical teams use the visual studio and templates to deploy agents on websites, WhatsApp, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and other channels. The custom LLMz engine focuses on reliability for multi-step tasks where naive prompting often fails, such as form filling, structured data extraction, and tool orchestration.
Botpress competes with platforms including Microsoft Copilot Studio, Google Dialogflow CX, Voiceflow, and a wave of newer AI agent startups. Its differentiation rests on its open developer heritage, breadth of channels, and focus on production-grade tooling for monitoring, versioning, and improving agents over time.