5
Funding Rounds
$18.0m
Money raised
Krisp is a technology company developing an AI-powered app designed to eliminate background noise during online communications.
2
Funding Rounds
$34.7m
Money raised
Mixhalo is a San Francisco-based technology company that has created a closed Wi-Fi network capable of transmitting audio in near real time from a sound source to an app on a smartphone.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Mike Einziger *******@motherscience.com
- Ann Marie Simpson-Einziger ********@mixhalo.com
- Vikram Singh ***@mixhalo.com
4
Funding Rounds
$20.0m
Money raised
A company offering an audio word processing platform that enables editor and producers to edit sound files while a writer would edit its lyrics.
3
Funding Rounds
$12.0m
Money raised
WellSaid Labs is a Seattle-based synthetic media company developing text-to-speech technology for the creation of life-like synthetic voice overs.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Matt Hocking ****@wellsaidlabs.com
- Michael Petrochuk *******@wellsaidlabs.com
1
Funding Rounds
$9.0m
Money raised
Curio Labs is a developer of an application allowing users to listen to stories from top journalistic outlets.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
1
Funding Rounds
SoundFocus is a company developing and building a hardware product that processes and tunes audio based on hearing pattern and compensates to sound frequencies users do not hear well. It is available for iPhone or iPod Touch users.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
4
Funding Rounds
A company focusing on artificial intelligence applied to video search.
Key people:
4
Funding Rounds
$53.2m
Money raised
An artificial Intelligence company with software that can translate voice tracks on videos. It is located in London, England and was founded in 2017.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
2
Funding Rounds
$1.2m
Money raised
Blokur is a UK-based music rights administration platform for music creators and publishers.
1
Funding Rounds
$120.0k
Money raised
Lyrebird is a Montreal-based company founded by Alexandre de Brébisson, Kundan Kumar and Jose Sotelo. It was acquired by Descript in September 2019.
2
Funding Rounds
$10.5m
Money raised
LISNR develop sultrasonic data-over-sound technology for proximity verification and contactless transactions.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Rodney Williams ******@solofunds.com
- Chris Ostoich *****@lisnr.com
- Josh Glick ****@lisnr.com
1
Funding Rounds
$15.0m
Money raised
A manufacturing company making headphones that adjust sound based on a users hearing.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
8
Funding Rounds
$68.9m
Money raised
Deepgram is an AI Speech Platform that provides developers with a simple to use Speech-to-Text API
Location:
Key people:
- Scott Stephenson *****@deepgram.com
- Noah Shutty ****@deepgram.com
2
Funding Rounds
$14.0m
Money raised
Neurofenix invented the NeuroBall, an intelligent controller for special video games, aimed at making stroke rehabilitation fun.
6
Funding Rounds
$99.5m
Money raised
Smule is a company that helps develop music creation applications that connect peo
7
Funding Rounds
$408.6m
Money raised
Jawbone is a San Francisco-based company founded in 1997 by Alexander Asseily.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
6
Funding Rounds
$1.7m
Money raised
An online platform for podcast and radio station management focused on serving enterprises.
Industries:
Location:
4
Funding Rounds
$33.0m
Money raised
Jajah is a Mountain View, California-based company founded in 2005.
Location:
4
Funding Rounds
$442.0m
Money raised
Arrival is a London based company developing and manufacturing zero-emission, public transportation vehicles.
4
Funding Rounds
$34.5m
Money raised
Provider of AI-driven audio advertising solutions for applications and games.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Christian Facey *********@audiomob.io
- Wilfrid Obeng *******@audiomob.io
$13.0m
Money raised
SOUNDBOKS is a company creating and marketing battery-driven speakers founded in 2015 by Jesper Theil Thomsen.
3
Funding Rounds
$45.8m
Money raised
Julep beauty, inc. is a privately held seattle, wa based cosmetics company.
Industries:
Location:
5
Funding Rounds
$4.7m
Money raised
Dotterel Technologies creates and distributes noise reduction and audio recording technologies for UAVs.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Shaun Edlin *****.*****@dotterel.com
- Matthew Rowe ***@outset.ventures
2
Funding Rounds
$33.5m
Money raised
Platform for recording, transcribing, and analyzing calls and meetings in real-time to capture important data points.
Location:
Key people:
- James Graham *****.******@jiminny.com
- Shelley Lavery linkedin
- Tom Lavery ***.******@jiminny.com
10
Funding Rounds
$31.0m
Money raised
The leader in immersive and expressive audio technologies that help you be heard the way you want to be heard.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Fernando Bosch ********@voicemod.net
- Juan Bosch (entrepreneur) ****@voicemod.net
- Jaime Bosch (entrepreneur) *****@voicemod.net
12
Funding Rounds
$133.7m
Money raised
Acast is an audio-on-demand and podcast platform that hosts, monetizes, and distributes audio content globally.
Industries:
Location:
4
Funding Rounds
$140.3m
Money raised
Software offering autonomous speech and voice recognition for live and recorded media.
6
Funding Rounds
$28.3m
Money raised
Sound simulation platform and synthetic audio data generation platform.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Finnur Pind **@treble.tech
- Jesper Pedersen **@treble.tech
- Ingimar Andersen **@treble.tech
2
Funding Rounds
$10.0m
Money raised
Amberscript is building SaaS solutions that enable users to automatically transform audio and video into text and subtitles using speech recognition.
Location:
Key people:
- Timo Behrens
- Peter-Paul de Leeuw *********@amberscript.com
- Thomas Dieste
7
Funding Rounds
$325.8m
Money raised
DICE is a music ticketing platform founded in 2014 by Phil Hutcheon.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
4
Funding Rounds
$6.9m
Money raised
LOVO is a Berkeley, California-based synthetic media company developing a text-to-speech platform using machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms.
Location:
Key people:
- Charlie Choi *******@lovo.ai
1
Funding Rounds
$30.0m
Money raised
Koo App is a social networking platform headquartered in India that allows users to post audio and video.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Aprameya Radhakrishna linkedin
- Mayank Bidawatka ******.*********@billionhearts.co
7
Funding Rounds
$41.1m
Money raised
Endel is a Berlin-based synthetic media and music company developing personalized sound environments to help users reduce stress, increase focus, and improve sleep.
Industries:
Location:
2
Funding Rounds
$7.0m
Money raised
Sonantic is a company that is developing expressive artificial voices for the entertainment industry.
Industries:
Location:
10
Funding Rounds
$541.9m
Money raised
Developer of a royalty-free music library to provide production music for films, TV and YouTube.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
4
Funding Rounds
$32.6m
Money raised
Humanising Autonomy is building the global standard for human machine interactions.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Raunaq Bose ******@humanisingautonomy.com
- Leslie Nooteboom ******@humanisingautonomy.com
- Maya Pindeus ****@humanisingautonomy.com
1
Funding Rounds
$23.4m
Money raised
Hume is the tech and music company behind virtual “metastar” angelbaby.
Location:
3
Funding Rounds
$14.2m
Money raised
Veritonic is an audio intelligence company. It aims to quantify the value of sound by measuring, scoring, and benchmarking audio creative to produce fast, robust evidence around the ads, sonic brand elements, voices, music and scripts that influence audiences.
Industries:
Location:
1
Funding Rounds
$372.0k
Money raised
SpokenLayer is a company founded in 2012 by Will Mayo.
1
Funding Rounds
$4.5m
Money raised
Developer of a psychedelic therapy application designed to auto-generate soothing and individualized soundtracks for drug-free therapy. The company's application combines immersive media with advances in intelligent technologies and psychedelic science to develop mobile tools and physical spaces that re-connect with the user's inner resources.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Yash Zaveri
- Mendel Kaelen ******@wavepaths.com
- Anna Rickman linkedin
4
Funding Rounds
$3.4m
Money raised
Respeecher is a Kiev-based artificial intelligence company developing deep learning for speech processing for voice cloning for content creators.
Industries:
4
Funding Rounds
$10.0m
Money raised
Emjoy is a womens sexuality and body positivity app.
Industries:
Location:
5
Funding Rounds
$26.2m
Money raised
Neosapience, Inc. is a Seoul-based company founded in 2017 by Juncheol Cho.
3
Funding Rounds
$31.8m
Money raised
Bilt is a Texas-based company providing 3D instructions for assembly & installation
Location:
5
Funding Rounds
$1.1m
Money raised
VoiceVibes is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2016 by Debra Bond Cancro.
Industries:
Key people:
1
Funding Rounds
$347.4k
Money raised
An online platform for creating, hosting, distributing, and monetizing podcasts.
Industries:
Location:
6
Funding Rounds
$178.5m
Money raised
AISpeech is a Jiangshan-based synthetic media company offering computer speech recognition, analysis, and generation.
Industries:
6
Funding Rounds
$39.4m
Money raised
Vibenomics powers audio out-of-home advertising and experiences for brands and location-based organizations.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
3
Funding Rounds
$2.6m
Money raised
AdTonos is a full-stack digital audio advertising platform founded in 1998 by Michal Marcinik.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
2
Funding Rounds
$4.1m
Money raised
Empowering guitarists to become better musicians through holistic learning.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Florian Lettner *******@fretello.com
- Wolfgang Damm ********@fretello.com
3
Funding Rounds
$11.1m
Money raised
Podcast publishing solutions for both enterprises and consumer
Industries:
Location:
2
Funding Rounds
$60.0m
Money raised
Interact.io is a video conferencing company.
Industries:
Location:
1
Funding Rounds
$2.0m
Money raised
Booktrack is a company founded in 2010.
Industries:
Location:
3
Funding Rounds
$9.9m
Money raised
Groover is a music promotion platform founded in 2018 by Rafael Cohen, Romain Palmieri, Dorian Perron and Jonas Landman.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Jonas Landman *****@groover.co
- Rafael Cohen ******@groover.co
- Dorian Perron ******@groover.co
1
Funding Rounds
$2.3m
Money raised
NumberEight is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2018 by Abhishek Sen.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
4
Funding Rounds
$12.0m
Money raised
Resemble AI is a Toronto-based artificial intelligence company providing synthetic media tools for the production of realistic speech synthesis.
Industries:
4
Funding Rounds
$3.9m
Money raised
MatchTune (formerly known as Muzeek) is a software that uses artificial intelligence to solve a problem that’s unique to the 21st century: YouTube soundtracks.
4
Funding Rounds
$196.0k
Money raised
BeyondWords (formerly SpeechKit) is a London-based artificial intelligence company developing synthetic voices, tools, and integrations for publishers and companies audio.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Konstantinos Vaggelakos
- Patrick O'Flaherty (entrepreneur) *******@beyondwords.io
2
Funding Rounds
$5.4m
Money raised
Replica is a company developing an AI that can replicate the human voice with text-to-speech software to produce expressive speech.
Industries:
Location:
2
Funding Rounds
$7.5m
Money raised
ai|coustics was founded and is led by two machine learning and audio experts, Corvin Jaedicke and Fabian Seipel. After their studies in audio technology, they worked for several years as Data Scientists for Machine Learning projects in the industry and teaching the Deep Learning for Audio Event Detection course at TU Berlin. ai|ocustics' mission is bringing better speech quality and intelligibility to digital communication and online media content by licensing AI Speech Enhancement Algorithms for speech products.
Location:
Key people:
- Fabian Seipel ******.******@ai-coustics.com
- Corvin Jaedicke ******.********@ai-coustics.com
3
Funding Rounds
$120.0k
Money raised
Voicery is a San Francisco-based synthetic media company developing text-to-speech systems offering realistic human-like voices.
3
Funding Rounds
$4.6m
Money raised
Tempow
Industries:
Key people:
- Vincent Nallatamby *******@tempow.com
- Thomas Girardier ******@tempow.com
- Julien Goupy linkedin
4
Funding Rounds
$2.0m
Money raised
Modulate is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based synthetic media company offering voice skins for games and systems for making voice completely customizable.
Industries:
Location:
4
Funding Rounds
$16.9m
Money raised
Liberate yourself from zombie subscriptions. Pay only for the content you want. Consume on any app or device.
Location:
Key people:
- Mans Ulvestam ****@sesamy.com
- Karl Rosander linkedin
- Markus Ahlstrand ******@sesamy.com
2
Funding Rounds
$19.5m
Money raised
IZotope is an AI-assisted music production company.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
2
Funding Rounds
$11.6m
Money raised