GGV Capital

GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm established in 2000, specializing in investments in local founders across various sectors. The firm focuses on seed-to-growth stage investments in areas such as Consumer/New Retail, Social/Digital & Internet, Enterprise/Cloud, and Frontier Tech. GGV manages approximately $6.2 billion in capital across 13 funds, offering expansion capital ranging from $5 to $25 million for initial investments. Its portfolio includes notable companies such as Airbnb, Alibaba, Affirm, ByteDance, and Peloton. GGV Capital operates offices in major tech hubs including Beijing, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Silicon Valley, emphasizing a commitment to supporting innovative businesses in the United States, China, and Southeast Asia.

Lily Cao

Vice President, Marketing

Yusi Chen

Associate

Teck Loon Goh

Head of Investor Relations

Christine Hinton

Vice President Marketing

Terence Jen

Partner and Global CFO

Yinghui Kuang

Vice President

Jenny Lee

Managing Partner

Yatine Lee

Vice President, Investor Relations

Kheng Nam Lee

Venture Partner

Haojun Li

Principal

Chao Luo

Vice President

Denise Peng

Venture Partner

Daniel Qiu

Vice President

Jeff Richards

Managing Partner

Dimitra Taslim

Vice President

Hans Tung

Managing Partner

Joshua Wu

Partner

Eric Xu

Managing Partner

Madhu Yalamarthi

VP

Andy Yu

Vice President

Erica Yu

Principal

Grace Zhou

VP Finance and Administration

Victor Zhu

Associate

Past deals in Speech Recognition

ShadowBot

Series C in 2022
ShadowBot develops a software robot that performs repetitive online tasks. The software robot simulates various operations of humans and performs operations such as mouse clicks, keyboard input, and reading information on any applications, enabling enterprises to improve efficiency and productivity.

WIZ.AI

Series A in 2022
WIZ is a fast growing startup deploying cutting edge conversational voice AI technology into large corporations throughout Southeast Asia. Backed by globally leading venture capital funds, we are rapidly expanding our humanistic AI conversational solutions across industries. With offices in Singapore, Nanjing and Jakarta, our diverse team of scientists, researchers, linguists, dialogue designers have cross-functional expertise, and are constantly pushing the boundaries of humanistic AI conversation for ASEAN languages.

Bombax

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.

ShadowBot

Series A in 2021
ShadowBot develops a software robot that performs repetitive online tasks. The software robot simulates various operations of humans and performs operations such as mouse clicks, keyboard input, and reading information on any applications, enabling enterprises to improve efficiency and productivity.

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.

WIZ.AI

Series A in 2020
WIZ is a fast growing startup deploying cutting edge conversational voice AI technology into large corporations throughout Southeast Asia. Backed by globally leading venture capital funds, we are rapidly expanding our humanistic AI conversational solutions across industries. With offices in Singapore, Nanjing and Jakarta, our diverse team of scientists, researchers, linguists, dialogue designers have cross-functional expertise, and are constantly pushing the boundaries of humanistic AI conversation for ASEAN languages.

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.

People.ai

Series C in 2019
People.ai operates a predictive platform that automates rep training, coaching, and Salesforce sync. The company is based in San Francisco, California.

Rasa

Series A in 2019
Rasa Technologies GmbH specializes in developing machine learning tools for creating conversational software, particularly contextual chatbots and assistants. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Berlin, the company offers a suite of products including Rasa Open Source, a widely used framework for automating text- and voice-based assistants, and Rasa X, a toolset designed to help developers enhance their AI assistants efficiently. Rasa Enterprise serves as the commercial solution, providing robust capabilities for building scalable contextual assistants. The company caters to various industries such as healthcare, insurance, banking, telecommunications, and travel, addressing needs in customer service automation, lead generation, and internal process optimization. With a strong community backing and over 3 million downloads of its open-source software, Rasa is committed to delivering secure and effective conversational AI solutions for businesses of all sizes.

Zhuiyi Technology

Series C in 2019
Zhuiyi Technology is an artificial intelligence company based in Shenzhen, China, specializing in deep learning and natural language processing. The firm develops AI solutions, including a chatbot named YiBot, designed to facilitate interactions between humans and enterprises. Its offerings encompass AI services for semantics, speech, and vision, enabling businesses to enhance customer service, conduct big data analysis, and deliver personalized services. Zhuiyi Technology's AI digital employee intelligence platform can be tailored for various business scenarios, supporting corporate and government functions in marketing, operations, and office tasks. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including finance, Internet, tourism, retail, real estate, and education, positioning itself as a key player in the field of enterprise intelligent services.

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.

People.ai

Series B in 2018
People.ai operates a predictive platform that automates rep training, coaching, and Salesforce sync. The company is based in San Francisco, California.

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.

Streem

Seed Round in 2017
Streem is an award winning technology company that enhances real-time communication and collaboration by creating an intelligent camera. The platform delivers a combination of augmented reality (AR), computer vision, and machine learning. It equips the expert with the capability to remotely capture crucial information by using proprietary spatial mapping, OCR, and object & pose estimation technology.

Zhuiyi Technology

Series B in 2017
Zhuiyi Technology is an artificial intelligence company based in Shenzhen, China, specializing in deep learning and natural language processing. The firm develops AI solutions, including a chatbot named YiBot, designed to facilitate interactions between humans and enterprises. Its offerings encompass AI services for semantics, speech, and vision, enabling businesses to enhance customer service, conduct big data analysis, and deliver personalized services. Zhuiyi Technology's AI digital employee intelligence platform can be tailored for various business scenarios, supporting corporate and government functions in marketing, operations, and office tasks. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including finance, Internet, tourism, retail, real estate, and education, positioning itself as a key player in the field of enterprise intelligent services.

Jovo

Convertible Note in 2017
Jovo is a development framework for cross-platform voice apps like Alexa Skills and Actions for Google Assistant, and Google Home.

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.