Fact · Dictation software
$2 millionUS 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.
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In the source's own words
“We’re excited to announce that Omi has raised $2 million from ... Tim Draper ... with participation from the Dropbox co-founder, 468 Capital, Embedding VC, and a strong group of angel investors.”
Omi Raises $2M to Build the Future of AI Wearables, Nik Shevchenko, Omi (Based Hardware), 2025, Article body, dated January 30th, 2025.
Open the original- What it measures
- Blog post by Omi's founder, Nik Shevchenko, on the company's own site. Omi is the AI wearable made by Based Hardware, a San Francisco company. The post says the raise goes into hiring and the next-generation AI wearable.
- What it does not show
- The post does not name the round's stage, so the stage is left as the unlabeled round. Its amount is a rounded announcement figure. Trackers list the same raise as pre-seed or as a $700,000 seed, which this company page does not support.
In the data
A row of Voice AI Funding: Speech and Dictation Startup Rounds, as Omi, January 2025 round: 2 million US dollars.
- Company
- Based Hardware
- Deal
- Growth or unlabeled round
- What the company makes
- Voice agents and voice AI
- Led by or buyer
- Tim Draper
- Announced
- 2025-01-30
- Year
- 2025
- Note
- The announcement does not label the stage, so the round is filed as unlabeled. The segment is a judgment call: Omi is an AI wearable that records what is said and answers to voice (its home page says it captures what was said and turns it into summaries, tasks and searchable memory).
Source
Used to calculate
- In the funding rounds and acquisitions in speech recognition and dictation dataset, the 11 published figures for “Voice agents and voice AI” have a median of 30 million US dollars, ranging from 2 to 580.7.
- The funding rounds and acquisitions in speech recognition and dictation dataset holds 50 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.
- The funding rounds and acquisitions in speech recognition and dictation dataset draws on 46 distinct sources.