Fact · Dictation software
12million US dollars
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.
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In the source's own words
“today announced a new $12 million investment that will help fuel the launch of Wispr Flow”
Wispr Raises $12M and Launches Wispr Flow to Replace Keyboards With Voice, Silicon UK (press release distributed by Business Wire), 2024, Press release, first and second paragraphs.
Open the original- What it measures
- The company's own press release, distributed by Business Wire and carried by Silicon UK. The release says the investment was led by Matt Kraning, CTO of Cortex at Palo Alto Networks, and states that total funding to date is $26 million.
- What it does not show
- The release calls the money an investment and does not name a stage, so the row is filed as an unlabeled round. Some databases describe it as a seed round, which the release does not say.
In the data
A row of Voice AI Funding: Speech and Dictation Startup Rounds, as Wispr Flow 2024 investment: 12 million US dollars.
- Company
- Wispr Flow
- Deal
- Growth or unlabeled round
- What the company makes
- Dictation app
- Led by or buyer
- Matt Kraning
- Announced
- 2024-09-30
- Year
- 2024
A row of History of Dictation Software: A Dated Timeline, as Wispr $12M investment (Wispr Flow): 2,024 year.
- Event
- Other
- Product
- Wispr Flow
- Maker
- Wispr
- Date
- 2024-09-30
- Kind
- Dictation app
- Note
- The row is the dated event, so num is the year 2024 from the announcement date September 30, 2024 stated in the claim; the quoted sentence itself has no date. The $12 million amount is the investment size, not the dataset measure. event is Other because the dataset has no funding value; the release does not name a round stage, so none is recorded.
Source
Used to calculate
- The timeline of dictation and speech recognition products dataset holds 39 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.
- The timeline of dictation and speech recognition products dataset draws on 35 distinct sources.
- In the funding rounds and acquisitions in speech recognition and dictation dataset, the 4 published figures for “Dictation app” have a median of 27.5 million US dollars, ranging from 12 to 280.
- 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.