Startup Deepgram – Ventures Media

Company Information

Deepgram was founded on January 2015. The company is based in San Francisco, CA, USA . The number of employees in Deepgram is less than 50. Deepgram helps enterprises unlock the potential of their audio data with custom trained speech recognition for accuracy and scale.

Here is how Deepgram describes itself: "We’ve reinvented ASR with 100% deep learning that allows companies to continuously improve accuracy. Start training your speech model and reaping the benefits in weeks, not months or years."

Deepgram was founded by Scott Stephenson. It is part of Y Combinator W16 cohort. Here is how its founder(s) describe the company - "Deepgram has reinvented Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) with a complete, deep learning model that allows companies to get faster, more accurate transcription, resulting in more reliable data sets ' on-prem or in the cloud. And we do it all with lower hardware and usage costs so we're a hell of a lot more scalable than big tech players. Deepgram is an NVIDIA partner and a Y Combinator company."

Funding & investors

Deepgram has received 6 rounds of venture funding. The total funding amount is around $38.9M. Last venture funding round was $25M, announced on February, 2021.

Wing Venture Capital (Venture capital)
SAP.iO (Accelerator)
Y Combinator (Accelerator)
Nvidia GPU Ventures (Venture capital)
Compound (Venture capital)
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