Deepgram

Deepgram is a foundational AI company on a mission to transform human-machine interaction using natural language.

Latest funding

$130M Series B+ · January 13, 2026

Led by AVP · Source: deepgram.com

Total raised: $168.8M across 4 sourced rounds

All 7 rounds ↓

Website: deepgram.com.

X: @DeepgramAI · 11,560 followers.

GitHub: deepgram.

LinkedIn: deepgram.

Categories: Voice and audio AI Developer tools and cloud Education.

Sectors: B2B, Engineering, Product and Design, AI-Enhanced Learning, API, AI.

Stage: Series B+.

Based in: San Francisco, United States.

Founded: 2015.

Total raised: $168.8M in 4 sourced rounds.

Last round: Jan 13, 2026 · 303 days ago.

Team: 115 people on the team page.

On Recent Funding since: Sep 28, 2026.

Signals

X account@DeepgramAI · created Feb 8, 2016 (10 years old) · 11,560 followers

Website registeredJan 28, 2016 (10 years old)

About Deepgram

We give any developer access to the fastest, most powerful voice AI platform including access to models for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and spoken language understanding with just an API call.

TIMELINE · MONEY RAISED

Deepgram | 243 days from website to first raise on record

@DeepgramAI·Raised $169M in 4 sourced rounds·2 signals before the first raise

Money raised, round by round (amounts linked to their source). Pins are dated signals; hover the icons for dates.

Funding rounds

January 13, 2026
Series B+ · $130M
AAVP (lead)
Source: deepgram.com
November 29, 2022
Series B+ · amount undisclosed
MMadrona (lead), BBlackRock, CCiti Ventures, IIQT, NNvidia, SSalesforce Ventures, SSAP.iO, TTiger Global Management, WWing VC, YY Combinator
Source: builtinsf.com
February 3, 2021
Series B+ · $25M
TTiger Global Management (lead), BBossa Invest, CCiti Ventures, NNvidia GPU Ventures, SSAP.iO, WWing VC
Source: venturebeat.com
March 18, 2020
Series A · $12M
WWing VC (lead), CCompound, NNvidia, SSAP.iO, YY Combinator
Source: venturebeat.com
September 27, 2016
Seed · $1.8M
CCompound (lead), YY Combinator (lead), 11517 Fund, FFenox Venture Capital, FFour Cities Capital, LLouis Beryl, LLudlow Ventures, NNKM Capital, ZZillionize
Source: techcrunch.com
February 8, 2016
X account created
January 28, 2016
Website created
Winter 2016
YY Combinator · batch
Source: ycombinator.com
Boost 2015
BBoost VC · batch
Source: boost.vc

Founders and team

SS
Scott Stephenson Co-Founder, CEO

@deepgramscott · LinkedIn · source: foundertrace.com
AS
Adam Sypniewski Founder

LinkedIn
NS
Noah Shutty Founder

LinkedIn
AD
Anoop Dawar CSO
CD
Chris Dyer VP of Sales
PR
Praveen Rangnath CMO
SB
Shadi Baqleh COO
SV
Sriram Ved Vice President and General Manager for APAC
SR
Steven Risch Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Acquisitions

Acquired company	Price	Announced
PPipecat-maker Daily	Not disclosed	Oct 29, 2026 · TechCrunch
OOfOne	Not disclosed	Jan 13, 2026 · Crowdfund Insider
PPoised	Not disclosed publicly	Date not given

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Sources and API

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