General Catalyst

Founded in 2000, General Catalyst is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage and growth equity investments. It focuses on accelerating ideas, careers, and companies towards success by providing ongoing momentum and mentorship based on deep experience.

Adrian Abeijon

Investor

Mark Allen

CFO

Samuel Beyer

Investor

Marc Bhargava

Managing Director

Chris Bischoff

Managing Director

Past deals in Speech Recognition

Sanas

Series A in 2022
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.

Viva Translate

Seed Round in 2022
Viva Translate is a developer of an advanced web-based translation platform that facilitates real-time communication in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. The company's innovative multilingual audio transcription and translation technology enables users to engage in live video calls while breaking down language barriers. By providing real-time translation, transcriptions, and summaries of meeting notes, Viva Translate enhances collaboration among stakeholders from diverse linguistic backgrounds, making effective communication more accessible globally.

Sanas

Seed Round in 2021
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.

Edwin

Seed Round in 2018
Edwin Technology Corp., founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, operated as an education technology company specializing in personalized English language learning. The company utilized natural language processing, machine learning, and speech technology to create adaptive learning plans tailored to individual student needs. In early 2020, Edwin merged with Buddy.ai, forming a new entity that continued to focus on developing a virtual English conversation partner aimed at helping over 500 million children globally achieve fluency in English. The combined efforts led to the enhancement of their mobile app, Buddy, which serves as a voice-based English tutor for children. Edwin's platform offered personalized study plans, integrating adaptive learning with on-demand human instructors to ensure students received comprehensive support. The company garnered significant investment from prominent firms, helping over 800,000 students improve their English skills through its innovative educational solutions.

Semantic Machines

Series B in 2015
Semantic Machines develops advanced artificial intelligence technology focused on conversational AI. Based in Newton, Massachusetts, with additional offices in Berkeley and Boston, the company specializes in creating systems that enable computers to understand, communicate, and collaborate effectively with humans. Their technology includes components like a Conversation Engine for modeling human discourse, neural network systems for semantic analysis and dialog state management, speech recognition and synthesis platforms, and reinforcement learning technologies. Semantic Machines aims to revolutionize human-computer interaction by making conversational computing scalable and viable, thereby enhancing customer service and home automation experiences.

EveryZing

Series B in 2007
EveryZing is a media merchandising platform that helps content producers and web publishers dynamically increase the volume of consumable online multimedia content while simultaneously enhancing its monetary value. Unlike other general web search and aggregation services that work only on meta data and tags, EveryZing leverages its unique speech to text, search, and optimization technologies to unlock the content within multimedia and automatically process and organize it to power a compelling ecosystem which easily connects media companies with publishers, consumers, and advertisers.

Parloa

Parloa offers a Conversational AI platform for automating customer dialogues. It enables large enterprises like ERGO and Decathlon to identify customer concerns swiftly across multiple channels, reducing repetitive tasks. Instead of creating data silos, Parloa optimizes service channels simultaneously using unified training data.
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