4
Funding Rounds
$68.4m
Money raised
PolyAI is a company building an enterprise conversational platform with AI-generated voice assistants to improve customer experience.
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Key people:
- Tsung-Hsien Wen ***********@poly.ai
- Nikola Mrkšić ******@poly.ai
- Pei-Hao Su *******@poly.ai
7
Funding Rounds
$91.2m
Money raised
Unbabel is a company providing a translation as a service platform that allows enterprises to understand and be understood by their customers. It participated in the W14 cohort of Y Combinator.
Location:
Key people:
- Hugo Silva ****@unbabel.com
- Bruno Prezado linkedin
- João Graça ****@unbabel.com
5
Funding Rounds
$8.4m
Money raised
Speech recognition software that provides voice-enabled experiences for kids of all ages, accents, and dialects while prioritizing privacy.
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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.
4
Funding Rounds
$160.0m
Money raised
Suki is a Redwood City, California-based technology company developing AI-powered administrative tools for the healthcare industry.
Location:
Key people:
- Punit Soni *****@suki.ai
7
Funding Rounds
$169.8m
Money raised
An artificial intelligence company offering a call tracking and conversational analytics for marketers.
Key people:
- Robert Duva *****@finandfield.com
6
Funding Rounds
$23.7m
Money raised
Symbl is an API platform for businesses looking to deploy conversational intelligence.
Location:
Key people:
- Toshish Jawale *******.******@symbl.ai
- Surbhi Rathore ******.*******@symbl.ai
1
Funding Rounds
$500.0k
Money raised
Univerbal provides a language-learning app with a chatbot AI that simulates the experience of conversing with a foreign speaker.
Location:
Key people:
- Philipp Hadjimina *******@univerbal.app
- Samuel Bissegger ******.*********@student.unisg.ch
- David Niederberger *****.*@bluewin.ch
6
Funding Rounds
$214.0m
Money raised
Observe.AI is the creator of an AI platform for call centers.
Location:
Key people:
- Akash Singh (entrepreneur) *****@sellermate.ai
- Sharath Keshavanarayana *******@observe.ai
- Swapnil Jain (entrepreneur) *******@observe.ai
12
Funding Rounds
$1.3b
Money raised
An Indian artificial intelligence company creating conversational AI technology
5
Funding Rounds
$108.1m
Money raised
AssemblyAI is a speech AI company developing AI models capable of transcribing and understanding human speech.
Location:
Key people:
- Dylan Fox (entrepreneur) *****@assemblyai.com
4
Funding Rounds
$35.0m
Money raised
Hyro uses AI technologies to facilitate text and voice conversations between healthcare organizations and their clients.
Location:
Key people:
- Israel Krush ******@hyro.ai
4
Funding Rounds
$100.0m
Money raised
A technology company utilizing artificial intelligence for image searches that can in turn be used in mobile applications. It is located in New York City, New York and was founded in 2013.
1
Funding Rounds
$300.0m
Money raised
DeepL is a company that develops technology for language translation purposes.
3
Funding Rounds
$2.9m
Money raised
Speechly is a Helsinki-based developer of a voice interface API for web and mobile applications.
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Location:
Key people:
- Hannes Heikinheimo ******@speechly.com
- Otto Soderlund ****.*********@supercell.com
- Otto Söderlund ****@speechly.com
9
Funding Rounds
$582.7m
Money raised
Synthesia is an AI-powered video platform founded in 2017 by Victor Riparbelli, Lourdes Agapito, Matthias Niessner and Steffen Tjerrild.
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Key people:
- Victor Riparbelli ******@synthesia.io
- Lourdes Agapito *.*******@cs.ucl.ac.uk
- Matthias Niessner ********.********@cs.fau.de
9
Funding Rounds
$117.5m
Money raised
Cogito is an enterprise cloud computing and software development company making software to provide AI-driven coaching to phone professionals.
3
Funding Rounds
$106.0m
Money raised
Lokalise is a web-based translation system
Location:
Key people:
- Nick Ustinov ****.*******@lokalise.com
- Petr Antropov ****.********@lokalise.com
1
Funding Rounds
Audio technology company using artificial vocal recognition for music creation
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3
Funding Rounds
$28.2m
Money raised
A company that has created a platform where voice speakers, like Alexa or Siri, can be designed and launched without the user needing knowledge of coding. It was founded in 2018 and is located in San Francisco, California.
Location:
Key people:
- Michael Hood *******.****@voiceflow.com
- Braden Ream ******.****@voiceflow.com
- Tyler Han *****.***@voiceflow.com
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.
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2
Funding Rounds
$68.0m
Money raised
A digital communication company that has software to allow healthcare providers interact with their patients. It is located in Sunnyvale, California and was founded in 2016.
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5
Funding Rounds
$64.7m
Money raised
DefinedAI is an AI training data marketplace to buy, sell, or commission AI training data, tools, and models.
1
Funding Rounds
$3.0m
Money raised
U.S-based company developing interactive mobile application for children book readings.
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Key people:
- Melissa Hammersley ***********@noveleffect.com
- Matthew Hammersley ***********@noveleffect.com
- Melody Furze
1
Funding Rounds
$2.3m
Money raised
Orai is an company that utilizes artificial intelligence to coach people into becoming more effective and confident communicators
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Key people:
- Paritosh Gupta ********@orai.com
- Aasim Sani *****@orai.com
- Danish Dhamani ******@orai.com
6
Funding Rounds
$32.5m
Money raised
Ava is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2014 by Thibault Duchemin.
Location:
Key people:
- Skinner Cheng *******@ava.me
- Thibault Duchemin ********@ava.me
13
Funding Rounds
$818.0m
Money raised
Verbit uses smart AI technology to disrupt captioning and transcription with speed and automation.
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Key people:
- Tom Livne ***.*****@verbit.ai
- Eric Shellef ****@verbit.ai
- Iris Getz ****.****@scopiolabs.com
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
$12.0m
Money raised
Avoma is an AI meeting assistant, collaboration, and intelligence platform for sales, implementation, and customer success teams.
Location:
Key people:
- Albert Lai ******@avoma.com
- Aditya Kothadiya linkedin
- Devendra Laulkar ********@avoma.com
2
Funding Rounds
$11.5m
Money raised
Murf.AI hosts an artifical intelligence-based text-to-speech platform for use in the creation of humanlike voiceovers.
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Location:
Key people:
- Ankur Edkie *****.*****@murf.ai
- Sneha Roy *****.***@murf.ai
- Divyanshu Pandey *********.******@murf.ai
1
Funding Rounds
$7.3m
Money raised
A company that creates voice software and speech processing system to clarify and elevate business communication.
Location:
Key people:
- Anthony Scodary *******@gridspace.com
- Nico Benitez ****@gridspace.com
- Evan Macmillan ****@gridspace.com
6
Funding Rounds
$112.6m
Money raised
ecobee is a Toronto-based developer of WiFi enabled thermostats for residential and commercial applications.
Key people:
- John Metselaar
- Stuart Lombard ******@mile12.ca
- Mark Malchiondo
5
Funding Rounds
$132.7m
Money raised
Notable Health is an artificial intelligence-powered health start up in California that focuses on automating and digitizing physician-patient interactions.
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Key people:
- Justin White (entrepreneur) ******@notablehealth.com
- Adam Ting ****@notablehealth.com
- Pranay Kapadia ******@notablehealth.com
4
Funding Rounds
$29.7m
Money raised
ELSA is an artificial intelligence assisted language learning platform for pronunciation training and accent reduction.
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Key people:
- Vu Van (entrepreneur) linkedin
- Xavier Anguera ******@elscompany.nl
- Andy Bromberg linkedin
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
1
Funding Rounds
$15.0m
Money raised
Ello is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence and educational technology company developing an AI reading coach designed to help children learn how to read in a personalized manner.
Location:
Key people:
- Catalin Voss *******@ello.com
- Elizabeth Adams *********@ello.com
- Tom Sayer ***@ello.com
5
Funding Rounds
$162.0m
Money raised
Sense is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based developer and distributor of energy tracking and automation solutions. Sense specializes in tracking devices and home automation solutions for its customers.
Industries:
Key people:
- Christopher Micali
- Ryan Houlette
- Mike Phillips ****.********@sense.com
4
Funding Rounds
$1.6m
Money raised
Ivee is a company founded by Jonathon Nostrant, Ben Silver and Jim Cortez.
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- Jonathon Nostrant *********@helloivee.com
- Ben Silver
- Jim Cortez linkedin
1
Funding Rounds
$11.0m
Money raised
Josh.ai is a company developing automated systems for households.
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Key people:
- Alex Capecelatro ****@atthepool.com
- Tim Gill (entrepreneur) ***@josh.ai
4
Funding Rounds
$21.0m
Money raised
Snips is a voice platform that uses artificial intelligence founded in 2013 by Rand Hindi.
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1
Funding Rounds
$12.0m
Money raised
Artificial intelligence company providing AI-powered chatbots and semantic search to boost self-service and e-commerce conversions.
Industries:
Key people:
- Melissa Solis *******.*****@inbenta.com
- Jordi Prats *****.*****@inbenta.com
4
Funding Rounds
$100.3m
Money raised
Chorus.ai is a developer of artificially intelligent conversation cloud platform for sales team that turn conversations into data and offer analytics of that data.
Location:
Key people:
- Roy Raanani linkedin
- Micha Y. Breakstone *****@somite.ai
8
Funding Rounds
$299.0m
Money raised
Unisound, or Beijing Yunzhisheng Information Technology, is a company developing intelligent voice and speech processing technologies.
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4
Funding Rounds
$18.9m
Money raised
A company offering a voice first care management platform that is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and was founded in 2014 by Dr. Aiden Feng, Emanuele Musini, and James Wyman.
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Key people:
2
Funding Rounds
$23.0m
Money raised
Sensely is a San Francisco-based company offering an avatar and chatbot-based platform to assist insurance for insurance providers and plan members.
Location:
Key people:
- Ivana Schnur linkedin
- Adam Odessky ****@sensely.com
1
Funding Rounds
$600.0k
Money raised
AMAI develops ultra-realistic text-to-speech engine
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Location:
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.
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Key people:
- Fernando Bosch ********@voicemod.net
- Juan Bosch (entrepreneur) ****@voicemod.net
- Jaime Bosch (entrepreneur) *****@voicemod.net
5
Funding Rounds
$223.1m
Money raised
Smartling is a company founded in 2009 by Jack Welde.
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4
Funding Rounds
$140.3m
Money raised
Software offering autonomous speech and voice recognition for live and recorded media.
3
Funding Rounds
$114.0m
Money raised
Corti is an artificial Neural Networks company founded in 2016 by Anders Friis.
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3
Funding Rounds
$12.9m
Money raised
Yseop is a Dallas-based artificial intelligence company offering artificial intelligence-based content generation around business reporting.
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Key people:
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
3
Funding Rounds
$12.0m
Money raised
Voiceitt is a company founded in 2012 by Danny Weissberg, Sara Smolley and Stas Tiomkin.
Key people:
- Stas Tiomkin ****@voiceitt.com
- Sara Smolley ****@voiceitt.com
- Danny Weissberg *****@voiceitt.com
6
Funding Rounds
$51.9m
Money raised
Balto is a real-time guidance platform that increases conversions and decreases ramp time for contact centers.
Industries:
Key people:
- Davidson Girard ********.******@balto.ai
- Marc Bernstein ****.*********@balto.ai
- Chris Kontes linkedin
4
Funding Rounds
$46.5m
Money raised
1Kosmos provide Digital Identity and Passwordless Authentication for workforce and customers. Powered by advanced biometrics and blockchain technology.
Key people:
- Hemen Vimadalal *****.*********@1kosmos.com
- Rohan Pinto *****.*****@1kosmos.com
8
Funding Rounds
$30.2m
Money raised
ObEN is a Pasadena, California-based artificial intelligence company.
Location:
Key people:
- Nikhil R Jain ******.****.****@marshall.usc.edu
- Adam Zheng ****@obenaufauctionsonline.com
1
Funding Rounds
$4.5m
Money raised
Rev is a company founded in 2010 by Josh Breinlinger, Jason Chicola, David Abrameto, Dan Kokotov, Mark Chen and Paul Huck.
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Key people:
- Mark Chen (entrepreneur) ****@cnaught.com
- Josh Breinlinger ****@pillowfight.coffee
- Jason Chicola *****@rev.com
3
Funding Rounds
$3.3m
Money raised
Blue Canoe is an educational technology company.
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Key people:
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:
1
Funding Rounds
$3.6m
Money raised
Platform delivering AI solutions for business communication needs.
Location:
Key people:
- Alexey Popov ******@spitch.ai
1
Funding Rounds
$4.2m
Money raised
A company making voice recognition products capable of detecting cognitive decline and cognitive impairment based on samples of speech.
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Key people:
1
Funding Rounds
$4.6m
Money raised
fireflies.ai is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2016 by Krishna Ramineni, Sam Udotong and Krish Ramineni.
Industries:
Key people:
- Krish Ramineni *****@fireflies.ai
- Sam Udotong
- Krishna Ramineni
3
Funding Rounds
$165.7m
Money raised
Linktree is a company founded by Alex Zaccaria.
4
Funding Rounds
$16.5m
Money raised
Oto is a Zürich, Switzerland-based artificial intelligence company building conversational tech solutions.
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Location:
2
Funding Rounds
$8.8m
Money raised
Podcastle converts news and articles to podcasts.
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6
Funding Rounds
$3.5m
Money raised
Sopris Health is a Denver-based company founded in 2017 by Patrick Leonard.
1
Funding Rounds
Artificial Intelligence company
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Key people:
3
Funding Rounds
$1.9m
Money raised
A company providing optical microscopy and micro-spectroscopy imaging system technology
Key people:
3
Funding Rounds
$1.4m
Money raised
CardioCube is a company founded in 2018 by Oskar Kiwic, Tom Jadczyk and Przemysław Magaczewski.