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Deepgram

Deepgram provides a real-time API platform for voice AI, offering speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice agent APIs to developers and enterprises.

deepgram.com · San Francisco

CALL NO.CS·DEEPGRAM·26
StageSeries CJanuary 2026 · led by AVP[1][2][3][6][8]
Raised$235Mdisclosed rounds[7]
Headcount257as of Jun 2026[7]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2015[7][9]
Money

Raised $235M across disclosed rounds.[7]

Series C closed January 2026, led by AVP.[1][2][3][6][8]

post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include AVP, Alkeon, In-Q-Tel, Madrona, Tiger Global, Wing, Y Combinator, BlackRock, Alumni Ventures, Princeville Capital, Twilio, ServiceNow Ventures, SAP, Citi Ventures, University of Michigan, Columbia University, Stanford University, Boost VC, Compound.[1][3][4][6][7][8]

People

Scott Stephenson, Co-Founder, CEO[1][9][13]

Adam Sypniewski, Chief Technology Officer[7][13]

Jason Rubinstein, VP Finance[7][13]

Holly Hogan, General Counsel[7][13]

Abe Pursell, VP, Global Business Development and EMEA Sales[7][13]

Ralphie White, VP of Customer Success[7][13]

Signals
Jul 21 2026launchDeepgram Delivers Real-Time Voice AI at the Edge for Use with Snapdragon company claim, not independently confirmed[7][8]
Apr 29 2026launchDeepgram Launches Flux Multilingual company claim, not independently confirmed[8]
Mar 22 2026newsPenguin Solutions partners with Deepgram on AI voice infrastructure company claim, not independently confirmed[7]
Jan 13 2026fundingDeepgram raises $130M Series C at $1.3B valuation, acquires OfOne[1][2][3][4][5][6][8]
Aug 28 2025newsDeepgram Named Winner of 2025 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award company claim, not independently confirmed[7]
Aug 19 2025newsDeepgram Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS company claim, not independently confirmed[7]
Comps

ElevenLabs · elevenlabs.io · Same buyer (developers and enterprises building voice AI) and overlapping product category (text-to-speech and voice agents), named together in funding round context.[1]

AssemblyAI · assemblyai.com · Same buyer (developers building voice AI applications) and same workflow (API-based speech recognition), named together in competitive market maps.[7][9]

Rev AI · rev.ai · Same buyer (developers needing speech-to-text APIs) and same workflow (API-based transcription and voice understanding), directly compared in Deepgram's own benchmarks.[6]

OpenAI (Realtime API) · openai.com · Same buyer (developers building voice agents) and same workflow (real-time conversational AI API), directly compared in Deepgram's own technical content.[6]

Risk

The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[7][8]

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CALL NO.CS·DEEPGRAM·26

Deepgram provides a real-time API platform for voice AI, offering speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice agent APIs to developers and enterprises.

deepgram.com · San Francisco

StageSeries C
Raised$235M
Headcount257
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2015
CompsElevenLabs +3

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