GGV Capital IX

GGV Capital IX is a venture capital fund managed by GGV Capital, a global firm founded in 2000 that focuses on investing in local founders across various sectors. The firm specializes in seed-to-growth stage investments, targeting industries such as Consumer/New Retail, Social/Digital & Internet, Enterprise/Cloud, and Frontier Tech. GGV Capital manages a total of $6.2 billion across 13 funds and has a diversified portfolio that includes notable companies like Airbnb, Alibaba, and Peloton. With offices in key locations such as Beijing, San Francisco, and Shanghai, GGV Capital aims to provide expansion capital ranging from $5 to $25 million for initial investments in both the United States and China. The firm's approach is to support innovative entrepreneurs and emerging technologies that can shape the future of their respective industries.

Jixun Foo

Global Managing Partner

Jenny Lee

Managing Partner

Haojun Li

Partner

Joshua Wu

Partner

Eric Xu

Managing Partner

Past deals in Speech Recognition

StellarRover

Seed Round in 2023
StellarRover is working on creating an AI assistant that might perhaps comprehend human language better in order to assist users in financial and photo-editing software like a genuine human would.

Xiaoice

Series A in 2021
Xiaoice is an AI company that develops a chatbot that acts as a digital assistant with the capability to understand human conversations. Xiaoice allows cross-platform interactions, enabling users to enjoy the convenience of artificial intelligence. Xiaoice is designed as a teenage girl and is touted as an empathic computing framework focusing on longer back-and-forth conversations with humans instead of simply answering questions or obeying commands like most bots. Its technology covers natural language processing, computer voice, computer vision, and AI content generation.

Otter.ai

Series B in 2021
Otter.ai creates technologies and products that make important information from voice conversations including meetings, interviews, and lectures instantly accessible and actionable. The company's award winning product, Otter Voice Notes, is used by business professionals, journalists and students to generate rich notes that can be easily searched and shared. Otter is based on proprietary technologies for speech recognition, speaker separation, speaker ID, and keyword / topic extraction. The company was founded by successful repeat entrepreneur Sam Liang and fellow engineering PhD Yun Fu. Investors We are proud to be supported by some of Silicon Valley’s top venture capitalists who were early investors in Tesla, SpaceX, Slack, and Twitter. Additionally, we are backed by legendary angel investor David Cheriton, who provided the initial capital to Larry Page and Sergey Brin to start Google.

Otter.ai

Series B in 2021
Otter.ai creates technologies and products that make important information from voice conversations including meetings, interviews, and lectures instantly accessible and actionable. The company's award winning product, Otter Voice Notes, is used by business professionals, journalists and students to generate rich notes that can be easily searched and shared. Otter is based on proprietary technologies for speech recognition, speaker separation, speaker ID, and keyword / topic extraction. The company was founded by successful repeat entrepreneur Sam Liang and fellow engineering PhD Yun Fu. Investors We are proud to be supported by some of Silicon Valley’s top venture capitalists who were early investors in Tesla, SpaceX, Slack, and Twitter. Additionally, we are backed by legendary angel investor David Cheriton, who provided the initial capital to Larry Page and Sergey Brin to start Google.

Kuaidian Yuedu

Series C in 2020
Kuaidian Yuedu offers a story reading app.

Otter.ai

Convertible Note in 2020
Otter.ai creates technologies and products that make important information from voice conversations including meetings, interviews, and lectures instantly accessible and actionable. The company's award winning product, Otter Voice Notes, is used by business professionals, journalists and students to generate rich notes that can be easily searched and shared. Otter is based on proprietary technologies for speech recognition, speaker separation, speaker ID, and keyword / topic extraction. The company was founded by successful repeat entrepreneur Sam Liang and fellow engineering PhD Yun Fu. Investors We are proud to be supported by some of Silicon Valley’s top venture capitalists who were early investors in Tesla, SpaceX, Slack, and Twitter. Additionally, we are backed by legendary angel investor David Cheriton, who provided the initial capital to Larry Page and Sergey Brin to start Google.

Voicea

Venture Round in 2019
Voicea is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based enterprise voice assistant software designed to enhance meeting productivity. Its flagship product, the Enterprise Voice Assistant (EVA), functions as an intelligent meeting facilitator by listening, taking notes, and identifying key decisions and action items during meetings. This capability allows users to make meetings searchable and ensures that discussions translate into actionable initiatives. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Voicea was formerly known as Voicera until its rebranding in December 2018. The company operates as a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc., and is led by professionals with experience from major technology firms.

Kuaidian Yuedu

Venture Round in 2019
Kuaidian Yuedu offers a story reading app.

Voicea

Convertible Note in 2019
Voicea is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based enterprise voice assistant software designed to enhance meeting productivity. Its flagship product, the Enterprise Voice Assistant (EVA), functions as an intelligent meeting facilitator by listening, taking notes, and identifying key decisions and action items during meetings. This capability allows users to make meetings searchable and ensures that discussions translate into actionable initiatives. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Voicea was formerly known as Voicera until its rebranding in December 2018. The company operates as a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc., and is led by professionals with experience from major technology firms.

Kuaidian Yuedu

Series B in 2018
Kuaidian Yuedu offers a story reading app.

Kezhiyin

Series A in 2018
Developer of customer relationship management (CRM) software designed to assist telephone representatives and customer service agents to better serve clients. The company offers automatic speech recognition, natural language processing technology in house, enabling call-center agents to improve efficiency and increase customer satisfaction.

Voicea

Series A in 2018
Voicea is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based enterprise voice assistant software designed to enhance meeting productivity. Its flagship product, the Enterprise Voice Assistant (EVA), functions as an intelligent meeting facilitator by listening, taking notes, and identifying key decisions and action items during meetings. This capability allows users to make meetings searchable and ensures that discussions translate into actionable initiatives. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Voicea was formerly known as Voicera until its rebranding in December 2018. The company operates as a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc., and is led by professionals with experience from major technology firms.

Voicea

Series A in 2018
Voicea is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based enterprise voice assistant software designed to enhance meeting productivity. Its flagship product, the Enterprise Voice Assistant (EVA), functions as an intelligent meeting facilitator by listening, taking notes, and identifying key decisions and action items during meetings. This capability allows users to make meetings searchable and ensures that discussions translate into actionable initiatives. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Voicea was formerly known as Voicera until its rebranding in December 2018. The company operates as a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc., and is led by professionals with experience from major technology firms.

Melo

Seed Round in 2018
melo.ai is building a new way to automatically taking meeting notes and let every meeting become more efficient and actionable. The 1st-gen product includes 6 camera + 6 microphone array which will be placed on the table inside the meeting room. It will record the voice and video for each speaker automatically without any touch or operations. Meanwhile it will transcript the voice of each speaker, then index topics and action items to relative voice/video/transcription in cloud. The product will allow users to check, follow up, share the meeting content efficiently. It also allows user to share with colleagues or partners who cannot participate that meeting due to location or time challenge, in order to 'let everyone in the loop’, more productive and better coordination. It’s a new type of service for business combining technology(vision+speech) with great user experience. The revenue model will be: annual fee for hardware rent + service fee charged by meeting hours.

Kuaidian Yuedu

Series A in 2017
Kuaidian Yuedu offers a story reading app.

Liulishuo

Series C in 2017
Shanghai Liulishuo Information Technology Co., Ltd. is an educational technology company established in 2012, specializing in language learning applications that leverage artificial intelligence and speech recognition technologies. Founded by Dr. Wang Wei, Dr. Hu Zhe, and Dr. Lin Hui, the company has developed an AI-driven English teacher capable of offering personalized and adaptive learning experiences. Liulishuo serves approximately 50 million learners across 379 cities in China and more than 175 countries globally. The company's innovative approach to language education focuses on tailoring courses to meet the individual needs of users, enhancing their learning journeys through advanced deep learning techniques. With its headquarters in Shanghai and an additional location in San Mateo, California, Liulishuo continues to expand its impact in the field of language learning.

Voicea

Seed Round in 2017
Voicea is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based enterprise voice assistant software designed to enhance meeting productivity. Its flagship product, the Enterprise Voice Assistant (EVA), functions as an intelligent meeting facilitator by listening, taking notes, and identifying key decisions and action items during meetings. This capability allows users to make meetings searchable and ensures that discussions translate into actionable initiatives. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Voicea was formerly known as Voicera until its rebranding in December 2018. The company operates as a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc., and is led by professionals with experience from major technology firms.

Dexer

Seed Round in 2016
AgVoice is a hands-free enabled, voice-interactive mobile technology for food and agriculture professionals to capture insights on the go. Users can improve productivity and workflow management, increase documentation accuracy, and gain valuable insights to optimize the use of resources in crop and animal production for a sustainability and environmental impact, by using proprietary analytics and processing of raw voice files including captured time stamps and location data. AgVoice is designed for use across the food and agriculture ecosystem, including livestock and crop production, agronomy, animal health and wellness, and machinery repair.

Liulishuo

Series B in 2015
Shanghai Liulishuo Information Technology Co., Ltd. is an educational technology company established in 2012, specializing in language learning applications that leverage artificial intelligence and speech recognition technologies. Founded by Dr. Wang Wei, Dr. Hu Zhe, and Dr. Lin Hui, the company has developed an AI-driven English teacher capable of offering personalized and adaptive learning experiences. Liulishuo serves approximately 50 million learners across 379 cities in China and more than 175 countries globally. The company's innovative approach to language education focuses on tailoring courses to meet the individual needs of users, enhancing their learning journeys through advanced deep learning techniques. With its headquarters in Shanghai and an additional location in San Mateo, California, Liulishuo continues to expand its impact in the field of language learning.

Liulishuo

Series A in 2014
Shanghai Liulishuo Information Technology Co., Ltd. is an educational technology company established in 2012, specializing in language learning applications that leverage artificial intelligence and speech recognition technologies. Founded by Dr. Wang Wei, Dr. Hu Zhe, and Dr. Lin Hui, the company has developed an AI-driven English teacher capable of offering personalized and adaptive learning experiences. Liulishuo serves approximately 50 million learners across 379 cities in China and more than 175 countries globally. The company's innovative approach to language education focuses on tailoring courses to meet the individual needs of users, enhancing their learning journeys through advanced deep learning techniques. With its headquarters in Shanghai and an additional location in San Mateo, California, Liulishuo continues to expand its impact in the field of language learning.

Liulishuo

Series A in 2013
Shanghai Liulishuo Information Technology Co., Ltd. is an educational technology company established in 2012, specializing in language learning applications that leverage artificial intelligence and speech recognition technologies. Founded by Dr. Wang Wei, Dr. Hu Zhe, and Dr. Lin Hui, the company has developed an AI-driven English teacher capable of offering personalized and adaptive learning experiences. Liulishuo serves approximately 50 million learners across 379 cities in China and more than 175 countries globally. The company's innovative approach to language education focuses on tailoring courses to meet the individual needs of users, enhancing their learning journeys through advanced deep learning techniques. With its headquarters in Shanghai and an additional location in San Mateo, California, Liulishuo continues to expand its impact in the field of language learning.

Liulishuo

Seed Round in 2013
Shanghai Liulishuo Information Technology Co., Ltd. is an educational technology company established in 2012, specializing in language learning applications that leverage artificial intelligence and speech recognition technologies. Founded by Dr. Wang Wei, Dr. Hu Zhe, and Dr. Lin Hui, the company has developed an AI-driven English teacher capable of offering personalized and adaptive learning experiences. Liulishuo serves approximately 50 million learners across 379 cities in China and more than 175 countries globally. The company's innovative approach to language education focuses on tailoring courses to meet the individual needs of users, enhancing their learning journeys through advanced deep learning techniques. With its headquarters in Shanghai and an additional location in San Mateo, California, Liulishuo continues to expand its impact in the field of language learning.
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