Wispr Scores $25 Million Series A Extension

<p><strong><span class&equals;"legendSpanClass">SAN FRANCISCO<&sol;span> <&sol;strong>&&num;8212&semi; Wispr&comma; the voice-to-text AI that turns speech into clear&comma; polished writing in every app&comma; has secured a &dollar;25 million Series A Extension led by <u><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;edge&period;prnewswire&period;com&sol;c&sol;link&sol;&quest;t&equals;0&amp&semi;l&equals;en&amp&semi;o&equals;4563621-1&amp&semi;h&equals;3838339813&amp&semi;u&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;notablecap&period;com&percnt;2F&amp&semi;a&equals;Notable&plus;Capital" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Notable Capital<&sol;a><&sol;u>&comma; with participation from <u><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;edge&period;prnewswire&period;com&sol;c&sol;link&sol;&quest;t&equals;0&amp&semi;l&equals;en&amp&semi;o&equals;4563621-1&amp&semi;h&equals;2703636189&amp&semi;u&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fstevenbartlett&period;com&percnt;2Fflight-fund&amp&semi;a&equals;Flight&plus;Fund" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Flight Fund<&sol;a><&sol;u>&comma; the investment arm of entrepreneur and <u><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;edge&period;prnewswire&period;com&sol;c&sol;link&sol;&quest;t&equals;0&amp&semi;l&equals;en&amp&semi;o&equals;4563621-1&amp&semi;h&equals;3108152432&amp&semi;u&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fstevenbartlett&period;com&percnt;2Fdoac&percnt;2F&amp&semi;a&equals;Diary&plus;of&plus;a&plus;CEO" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Diary of a CEO<&sol;a><&sol;u> host Steven Bartlett&period; The round comes just months after Wispr&&num;8217&semi;s &dollar;30 million Series A&comma; follows 40 percent month-over-month growth in both users and ARR&comma; and brings Wispr&&num;8217&semi;s total funding to &dollar;81 million&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Wispr is building its own voice-first foundation models as the basis of an operating system that makes speech the primary way people interact with technology&period; The vision goes beyond traditional dictation tools and forms the early layers of a voice-native computing system&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The company&&num;8217&semi;s flagship product&comma; Flow&comma; is used daily across more than 25&comma;000 apps and websites&comma; helping hundreds of thousands of people move from thought to text seamlessly&period; It cleans up filler words&comma; formats text based on context&comma; and turns natural speech into clear&comma; ready-to-use writing&period; Ninety percent of what users say with Flow requires no edits at all&comma; compared with about ten percent for traditional dictation tools like Siri&period; After six months&comma; the average user writes 72 percent of their characters with Flow&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Big tech has made little recent progress in voice&comma; and even the newest voice features from general-purpose LLMs still struggle with reliability and consistency across apps&period; This gap has kept voice from becoming a daily habit for most users&period; Wispr is closing that gap and rapidly changing expectations for what this near-future could look like&period; The new funding will fuel hiring across engineering and product to support this work and to help the company continue developing new features and expanding Flow&&num;8217&semi;s capabilities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Voice never reached its potential because the industry treated it as a feature instead of an interface&period; We&&num;8217&semi;re picking up where others left off&comma; and the growing migration of users to Wispr reinforces how much demand there is for a dependable voice interface&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Tanay Kothari&comma; co-founder and CEO of Wispr&period; &&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;re building a system designed to make speech a primary mode of computing so that people can work at the speed of thought&comma; on any platform&period; The strong inbound interest from investors just a few short months since our last raise shows how powerful this vision has become and gives us the ability to scale it faster&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The round was led by Hans Tung&comma; Managing Partner at Notable Capital&comma; who joins as a board observer&period; A 13-time Forbes Midas Lister&comma; Hans and the Notable team have been early investors in category-defining companies&comma; including Affirm&comma; Airbnb&comma; Slack&comma; Coinbase&comma; Anthropic&comma; and TikTok&comma; each of which went on to redefine its industry&period; Their deep experience across commerce&comma; consumer&comma; and prosumer markets makes Notable a strong strategic partner as Wispr scales its voice-first technology worldwide&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Wispr is tackling one of the most ambitious challenges in technology&colon; reimagining the primary interface between humans and machines&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Hans Tung&comma; Managing Partner at Notable Capital&period; &&num;8220&semi;The founders&&num;8217&semi; vision&comma; speed&comma; and craftsmanship stand out even among the best teams we&&num;8217&semi;ve seen&period; My colleague Chelcie Taylor and I believe Wispr is building the foundation for a new generation of AI-driven interfaces – and we&&num;8217&semi;re proud to partner with them in that mission&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

Editor

Numeric Dials Up $51 Million Series B

SAN FRANCISCO -- Numeric, an AI accounting automation platform, has raised a $51 million Series…

1 day

Apple Names 45 Finalists for App Store of the Year Awards

Apple has announced 45 finalists for this year’s App Store Awards, recognizing the best apps…

2 days

UC Reaches Agreement With Nurses, Strike Canceled

The University of California (UC) and the California Nurses Association (CNA) have reached a tentative…

4 days

HouseRX Rakes In $55 Million Series B

SAN FRANCISCO -- House Rx, a health tech company focused on making specialty medications more accessible and…

4 days

King Charles Honors NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang

Britain's King has given an award to the King of NVIDIA! NVIDIA founder and CEO…

4 days

Cursor Secures $2.3 Billion Funding

SAN FRANCISCO -- Cursor, an AI development platform, announced the closing of a massive $2.3…

4 days