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The funding rounds and acquisitions in speech recognition and dictation dataset draws on 46 distinct sources.
Calculated from 50 data points on October 19, 2026
- How it is calculated
- Count of the distinct sources behind the dataset's 50 rows: 46.
A statistic of the dataset Voice AI Funding: Speech and Dictation Startup Rounds, calculated by code from its published rows.
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- Amberscript, the AI speech recognition company, announced on 4 November 2021 that it had raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Endeit Capital.
- Ambience Healthcare, an ambient AI documentation company, closed a $243 million Series C round in July 2025, co-led by Oak HC/FT and Andreessen Horowitz.
- AssemblyAI announced that it had raised a $28 million Series A led by Accel.
- SiliconANGLE reported on December 4, 2023 that the speech AI company AssemblyAI had raised $50 million in a Series C round led by Accel.
- In July 2024, Bee, the maker of a wearable AI assistant, raised $7 million in a round led by Exor, according to TechCrunch. The announced amount includes $1.5 million of pre-seed funding raised earlier.
- 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.
- Deepgram announced a $12 million Series A round led by Wing VC.
- Deepgram announced that it had raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Tiger Global.
- TechCrunch reported that Deepgram had raised $47 million in new funding led by Madrona Venture Group.
- Deepgram announced that it had raised $130 million in Series C funding at a $1.3 billion valuation.
- ElevenLabs announced on 20 June 2023 that it had raised a $19 million Series A round led by Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross and Andreessen Horowitz.
- ElevenLabs announced on 22 January 2024 that it had raised an $80 million Series B round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross.
- ElevenLabs announced on 30 January 2025 that it had raised $180 million in a Series C round co-led by a16z and ICONIQ Growth.
- ElevenLabs announced on 4 February 2026 that it had raised $500 million in a Series D round led by Sequoia Capital.
- 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.
- Freed announced in March 2025 that it had raised $30 million in Series A funding, led by Sequoia Capital.
- Gladia announced on 15 October 2024 that it had completed a $16 million Series A funding round led by XAnge.
- On July 8, 2026, Gradium said it had extended its funding to $100 million, seven months after its launch, as an extension of its seed financing. The $100 million is the total after the extension; the announcement does not say how much the extension itself raised.
- 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.
- In April 2026 iFlytek issued 90,232,348 shares to 14 specific investors and raised a gross total of 3,999,999,986.84 yuan, about 580.7 million US dollars at 6.8880 yuan per dollar.
- Microsoft announced on 12 April 2021 that it would acquire Nuance Communications in an all-cash transaction valued at $19.7 billion, including Nuance's net debt.
- Modulate announced on 16 August 2022 a $30 million Series A round, led by Lakestar and supported by investors such as Hyperplane, Everblue and Galaxy.
- Modulate announced on 28 September 2026 that it had raised $25 million in new funding, led by Future Ventures, with participation from Hyperplane and Lakestar. The company says the round brings its total funding to $60 million.
- 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.
- Omi's own announcement dated January 30, 2025 says it raised $2 million from Tim Draper, with participation from the Dropbox co-founder, 468 Capital, Embedding VC and angel investors.
- 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.
- Smallest AI announced on its blog, with the page dated 5 October 2026, that it had raised $13 million in a Series A round led by Seligman Ventures.
- Speechmatics announced on June 28, 2022 that it had raised $62 million in a Series B round led by Susquehanna Growth Equity, with existing investors AlbionVC and IQ Capital.
- Tandem Health announced on 19 June 2024 that it raised $9.5 million to scale its healthcare co-pilot.
- Tandem Health announced on 30 June 2025 that it secured $50 million to build an AI-native operating system for clinical workflows across Europe.
- Tandem Health announced on 14 September 2026 that it raised $100 million, led by the Scaleup Europe Fund managed by EQT.
- 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.
- In February 2024, the UK healthtech company TORTUS announced $4.2 million in seed funding, led by Khosla Ventures.
- Trint announced on June 8, 2017 that it had closed US$3.1 million in Pre-Series A funding from a global roster of investors and tech leaders, with Horizons Labs leading the round.
- Trint announced on April 11, 2019 that it had closed a $4.5 million Series A funding round, led by private and institutional investors including Horizons Labs, TechNexus and Associated Press.
- VoyagerX, the maker of the Vrew video editor, raised $26.5 million in a Series A round in 2021 from Altos Ventures, SBVA (formerly SoftBank Ventures Asia) and Yellowdog, according to its own news section, which dates the report to 23 June 2021.
- VoyagerX announced on 10 October 2024 that it had attracted $12.2 million in investment, with InterVest and Murex Partners newly participating.
- Wispr announced on September 30, 2024 a new $12 million investment, led by Matt Kraning with participation from NEA, 8VC, Tim Junio and Alumni Ventures, to help fuel the launch of Wispr Flow.
- TechCrunch reported on June 24, 2025 that the dictation app Wispr Flow was raising $30 million in Series A funding led by Menlo Ventures.
- Speech Technology reported that Wispr had raised $25 million from Notable Capital and Flight Fund, months after its $30 million Series A.
- Wispr announced $280 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion valuation, led by Menlo Ventures, with Notable Capital as a returning investor.