Synthesia
Series D in 2025
Founded in London in 2017, Synthesia Ltd. specializes in AI-driven video generation platforms. Its technology transforms text into professional videos with customizable avatars and voiceovers in over 140 languages, enabling efficient creation of personalized advertising, corporate communications, e-learning content, and more.
Vocode is a developer of an open-source library that focuses on creating voice-based applications using voice artificial intelligence. The company's platform facilitates the development of voice interfaces by providing essential features such as real-time speech recognition, natural language understanding, and speech synthesis. By emphasizing composability, Vocode equips developers with out-of-the-box tools tailored for common workflows, allowing them to seamlessly create realistic and production-ready conversational voice interfaces. This innovative approach positions Vocode as a key player in the evolution of voice technology, enabling a new generation of applications that leverage voice interactions.
Essential AI
Series A in 2023
Essential AI develops AI solutions that automate labor-intensive tasks, enhancing efficiency. Its Large Language Models empower users to handle complex tasks, unlocking essential skills and amplifying organizational impact.
AI21 Labs
Series C in 2023
AI21 Labs is an Israeli artificial intelligence company that develops generative AI and large language models along with tools to understand and generate natural language. Founded in 2017 and based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, it provides AI-based writing and reading assistance that understands context and meaning, including a writing companion that can rephrase text to convey the intended message and generate summaries. The company's tools help users read more efficiently, analyze and visualize complex knowledge structures, and apply deep learning and NLP to transform writing and comprehension for businesses and individuals.
Deepset is a technology company that specializes in natural language processing (NLP) solutions, providing tools and frameworks for enterprise AI teams. Established in 2018, the company is known for its Haystack open-source framework, which facilitates the development of NLP applications. Deepset's software leverages advancements in machine learning and transfer learning to enable users to extract value from diverse text sources and create customized models with reduced training data requirements. Through its offerings, deepset has supported numerous AI teams worldwide in applying cutting-edge NLP technologies to practical, real-world challenges. Additionally, the company provides deepset Cloud, an LLM platform that enhances collaboration and efficiency for enterprises focused on AI development.
Synthesia
Series C in 2023
Founded in London in 2017, Synthesia Ltd. specializes in AI-driven video generation platforms. Its technology transforms text into professional videos with customizable avatars and voiceovers in over 140 languages, enabling efficient creation of personalized advertising, corporate communications, e-learning content, and more.
Sanas operates as a real-time speech understanding platform, specializing in accent modulation technology. Its core product enables multilingual speakers to communicate effectively by correcting accents while preserving voice and emotional nuances. This innovation benefits contact centers and enterprises by enhancing communication, boosting customer satisfaction, and minimizing misunderstandings due to language barriers.
Deepset is a technology company that specializes in natural language processing (NLP) solutions, providing tools and frameworks for enterprise AI teams. Established in 2018, the company is known for its Haystack open-source framework, which facilitates the development of NLP applications. Deepset's software leverages advancements in machine learning and transfer learning to enable users to extract value from diverse text sources and create customized models with reduced training data requirements. Through its offerings, deepset has supported numerous AI teams worldwide in applying cutting-edge NLP technologies to practical, real-world challenges. Additionally, the company provides deepset Cloud, an LLM platform that enhances collaboration and efficiency for enterprises focused on AI development.
Agolo is a technology company that builds an artificial intelligence driven platform to create real-time summaries from unstructured information. The platform leverages machine learning and natural language processing to convert messy data into a clean entity-graph based data store, powering enterprise use cases such as GenAI applications, large language models, RAG pipelines, business intelligence dashboards, support-site augmentation, and enterprise search. By providing concise, contextual summaries, the solution helps improve product quality, reduce support costs, and enable faster detection of emerging issues. The company, originally known as Ninoh, is based in New York.
Synthesia
Series B in 2021
Founded in London in 2017, Synthesia Ltd. specializes in AI-driven video generation platforms. Its technology transforms text into professional videos with customizable avatars and voiceovers in over 140 languages, enabling efficient creation of personalized advertising, corporate communications, e-learning content, and more.
Agolo
Venture Round in 2019
Agolo is a technology company that builds an artificial intelligence driven platform to create real-time summaries from unstructured information. The platform leverages machine learning and natural language processing to convert messy data into a clean entity-graph based data store, powering enterprise use cases such as GenAI applications, large language models, RAG pipelines, business intelligence dashboards, support-site augmentation, and enterprise search. By providing concise, contextual summaries, the solution helps improve product quality, reduce support costs, and enable faster detection of emerging issues. The company, originally known as Ninoh, is based in New York.
TalkingPoints
Grant in 2019
TalkingPoints facilitates meaningful communication between educators, parents, and students by offering an AI-powered translation platform. This enables parents to engage with their children's education regardless of language barriers.
Dialogflow
Acquisition in 2016
Dialogflow is a platform that specializes in creating conversational user experiences, allowing brands to engage in natural language interactions across various devices, applications, and services. The company offers tools for speech recognition, natural language processing, and conversation management, which help developers enhance customer satisfaction and streamline business processes without extensive coding. Dialogflow's technology can understand a wide range of user requests by leveraging pre-built knowledge packages derived from billions of user queries, making it accessible for users to interact with mobile phones and tablets in a conversational manner.
Founded in 2012, Mobvoi specializes in artificial intelligence technologies for Chinese language speech recognition, natural language processing, and vertical mobile search. It offers a Chinese Smart Watch Operating System with voice search capabilities across various platforms. The company has a strategic agreement with Volkswagen Group.
Dark Blue Labs
Acquisition in 2014
Dark Blue Labs, headquartered in Hyde, UK, specializes in advanced machine learning techniques, focusing primarily on natural language processing tasks such as translation, summarization, sentiment analysis, and question answering. Their team comprises experts in deep learning for various modalities like images, video, speech, and reinforcement learning. The company aims to develop innovative algorithms to create intelligent AI products, particularly in the realm of natural language understanding.
Emu Messenger
Acquisition in 2014
Emu is texting with a built-in assistant. Schedule lunches, share your location, and set reminders β as easily as sending a photo. Itβs texting, for grown-ups.
Created by veterans of Siri, Apple, Google, TechCrunch, and Yahoo! Messenger, Emu is a messaging product for iPhone that uses artificial intelligence β machine learning and natural language processing β to understand messages, then magically adds relevant information to help you schedule a lunch, reserve a table, buy movie tickets, or share your location in real time.
Emu (http://emu.is) was founded in 2012 by Gummi Hafsteinsson (formerly VP Product Siri, previously at Apple and Google), Dave Feldman (previously with AOL/TechCrunch and Yahoo!), and an experienced team of mobile and machine-learning engineers. The company has received seed funding of $1.5M to date from Kleiner Perkins, TriplePoint Capital, Menlo Ventures, DFJ, and additional angel investors. See our Founder Bios for more information on the founding team.
Unbabel
Seed Round in 2014
Unbabel Inc., established in 2013, specializes in online translation services. Headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in New York, Pittsburgh, and Lisbon, the company combines machine translation with human editing to facilitate global business communication. Unbabel translates user-generated content like emails, wikis, and forums, offering solutions for customer service, tickets, and chat. Its services enable enterprises to serve customers in their native languages, bridging language barriers and fostering multilingual understanding.
Quest Visual
Acquisition in 2014
Quest Visual is a technology company that specializes in mobile applications, most notably known for its innovative product, Word Lens. This application leverages a device's built-in video camera to instantly translate printed text from one language to another in real time. By utilizing augmented reality technology, Word Lens allows users to capture images of text and receive immediate translations, making it a valuable tool for travelers and language learners alike. The company's focus on enhancing communication through technology has positioned it as a notable player in the mobile application market.
MindMeld
Convertible Note in 2013
MindMeld is a cloud-based AI platform that enables developers to build intelligent, human-like conversational interfaces for apps, devices, and websites. It powers voice and text-based assistants with natural language understanding and question-answering capabilities, helping users find and navigate information across music, video, weather, and connected home services. Founded in 2011 in San Francisco as Expect Labs, MindMeld has evolved into a platform that supports conversational experiences across applications, enabling teams to create assistants that understand user intent and respond appropriately. In 2017 it became a subsidiary of Cisco Systems.
Wavii is an online platform that specializes in automatically generating status updates about celebrities, companies, politicians, and various trending topics. Utilizing proprietary Natural Language Processing technology, Wavii scans and analyzes news articles, blogs, and tweets across the internet to distill and de-duplicate information, effectively summarizing significant events such as political victories, relationship changes, acquisitions, or product launches. Users can follow specific topics of interest in a manner similar to how they follow friends on social media, making it easier to stay informed about the subjects that matter to them. Wavii is accessible through both web and smartphone applications, providing a streamlined way to consume news.
MindMeld
Venture Round in 2012
MindMeld is a cloud-based AI platform that enables developers to build intelligent, human-like conversational interfaces for apps, devices, and websites. It powers voice and text-based assistants with natural language understanding and question-answering capabilities, helping users find and navigate information across music, video, weather, and connected home services. Founded in 2011 in San Francisco as Expect Labs, MindMeld has evolved into a platform that supports conversational experiences across applications, enabling teams to create assistants that understand user intent and respond appropriately. In 2017 it became a subsidiary of Cisco Systems.
Phonetic Arts
Acquisition in 2010
Phonetic Arts Limited is a technology company based in Cambridge, United Kingdom, specializing in the generation of natural expressive speech for computer games. Founded in 2006, the company offers a suite of products designed to enhance voice interactions in gaming. Its Phonetic Morpher technology allows speech to be altered to sound as if it originates from different characters, while Phonetic LipSync provides accurate lip sync information for both natural and recorded speech. Additionally, the Phonetic Synthesizer transforms the application of speech within games, enabling more immersive and engaging experiences for players.
AI21 Labs is an Israeli artificial intelligence company that develops generative AI and large language models along with tools to understand and generate natural language. Founded in 2017 and based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, it provides AI-based writing and reading assistance that understands context and meaning, including a writing companion that can rephrase text to convey the intended message and generate summaries. The company's tools help users read more efficiently, analyze and visualize complex knowledge structures, and apply deep learning and NLP to transform writing and comprehension for businesses and individuals.