Observe.AI acquired $8 million in Series A funding led by Nexus Venture Partners with participation from MGV, Liquid 2 Ventures, Hack VC, Emergent Ventures, and Y Combinator. Observe.AI also announced its agent-first voice AI platform, which is designed to provide agents with real-time feedback on
Waggl, a platform for real-time employee voice feedback designed to help organizations to create actionable ideas, collect feedback, and meet performance goals, closed a $7 million round of Series A funding led by First Analysis, along with Labora, Funder’s Club, and Rob Bernshteyn. According to
Voice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technology company SoundHound Inc.®, closed $100 million in new funding. Participants in the round include Tencent Holdings Limited, Daimler AG, Hyundai Motor Company, Midea Group, and Orange S.A. The company plans to use the funding to drive adoption and distribution of
Voicera today announced that it has closed $20 million in Series A financing led by e.ventures, with participation from Battery Ventures, Cisco Investments, GGV Capital, Greycroft, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Microsoft Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Workday Ventures. Voicera is the creator of Eva, an in-meeting
After pricing its IPO at the bottom of the expected range at $20 per share, Bandwidth debuted on the Nasdaq, closing at $21.19 (up about six percent) on its first day of trading. Bandwidth, founded in 1999, allows businesses to develop products with intelligent voice, messaging,
StoneCalibre announced that it has completed the acquisition of Applied Voice & Speech Technologies Inc. ("AVST"), a developer of software-based unified communications (UC) solutions for businesses of all sizes. The company was merged with XMedius Solutions Inc. as of October 31st. [bg_collapse view="link" color="#4a4949" icon="arrow"
Storyline is a developer tool that allows users to create voice apps and bots without coding. The platform makes it easy for non-tech people to create, test, and publish complex voice applications in minutes by using templates and visual mind-map interface. There’s no need to
MessageBird is a developer tool that adds programmatic call capabilities to any app or service. The new voice API allows developers to place and receive calls from the cloud. It enables use cases like anonymous calling, 2FA voice prompts and global call forwarding. MessageBird Voice
Sarcastic Samantha is an iPhone product that reads ideas back to users in a sarcastic patronizing voice. The app comes with four voices: Sarcastic Samantha, Condescending Kyle, Cranky Karen, and Mean Moira. Samantha will even add her own little sarcastic remarks. According to the maker,
Artificial intelligence startup TalkIQ closed $14 million in Series A financing led by Scale Venture Partners. Aspect Ventures, Danhua Capital, Felicis Ventures and Salesforce Ventures also participated in the funding. TalkIQ is a voice analytics platform that seeks to help businesses increase revenue by aggregating