Is Alexa spawning companies in the same way that Slack/Facebook Messenger are?

[cmaury]

It seems like there has been an explosion of companies creating text bots for messaging platforms. Amazon's Alexa/Echo platform is similar in concept (Natural Language interface into a streamlined service), but I haven't a similar explosion. Am I missing something? Does anyone know of any companies building specifically for Alexa (the Alexa fund companies I've seen are all hardware focused)?

[ruthienachmany]

Check out some of the companies that have presented at the NYC Amazon Alexa meetup - www.meetup.com/NYC-Amazon-Alexa-Meetup/

Often, it's not that companies are building only for Alexa, but that the Alexa integration is powering a new product offering they weren't able to fully provide previously.