Fact · Dictation software
14million US dollars
In the funding rounds and acquisitions in speech recognition and dictation dataset, the 15 published figures for “Meeting notes” have a median of 14 million US dollars, ranging from 0.3 to 125.
Calculated from 15 data points on October 19, 2026
- What it measures
- Each figure is one row of the dataset: a published measurement for a stated group, traced to its source. The median is the middle value of the 15 figures for this group.
- How it is calculated
- Median of 15 values (0.3, 2.5, 3.4, 4.2, 4.7, 5, 10, 14, 17, 20, 21, 43, 50, 50, 125) = 14.
- What it does not show
- Only disclosed deals appear, and announcements round amounts. Rounds labeled differently by different sources are filed under the company's own label.
A statistic of the dataset Voice AI Funding: Speech and Dictation Startup Rounds, calculated by code from its published rows.
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- Circleback announced on November 26, 2024 that it had raised $2.5 million in seed funding from Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, Pioneer Fund and Transpose Platform, along with angel investors.
- Fathom announced on January 24, 2022 that its launch came with $4.7 million in seed funding from a coalition of early Zoom investors.
- Fathom announced on September 19, 2024 that it had raised $17 million in Series A funding led by Telescope Partners.
- Fireflies.ai announced on October 29, 2019 a $5 million seed round led by Canaan Partners.
- Fireflies.ai announced on May 24, 2021 a $14m Series A round led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from its seed investor Canaan Partners.
- Implicator reported that Lightspeed, betaworks and FirstMinute seeded Granola with $4.25 million in May 2023.
- Granola announced on October 23, 2024 that it had raised a $20 million Series A led by Spark Capital, for its AI notepad for meetings.
- Forward Future reported on May 14, 2025 that Granola had secured $43 million in a Series B funding round led by NFDG, the venture firm of Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross.
- Granola announced on March 25, 2026 that it had raised a $125M Series C, led by Danny Rimer at Index Ventures, for its AI notepad.
- Noota, a Paris company that makes an AI assistant for meeting notes, says it raised 3 million euros in 2025 in a round led by Blast Club, with Sharpstone and Bpifrance. Converted at the ECB rate for 27 May 2025, that is about 3.4 million US dollars.
- Otter.ai, then named AISense, announced on November 20, 2017 that it had raised a $10 million Series A to power ambient voice intelligence.
- Otter.ai announced on February 25, 2021 that it had raised a $50 million Series B led by Spectrum Equity.
- Read AI announced on April 2, 2024 a $21 million Series A financing led by Goodwater Capital, with existing investor Madrona Venture Group.
- Read AI announced on October 28, 2024 the close of a $50 million Series B funding round led by Smash Capital.
- Tech.eu reported on October 26, 2023 that Wudpecker, a Helsinki AI company, had secured €330,000 in pre-seed funding in a round that included investment from Trind VC, Accelerace and Sofokus Ventures. At the ECB reference rate of 1.0540 US dollars per euro that day, the amount is about $0.348 million.