SV Angel

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based angel investment group founded in 1992 that focuses on supporting entrepreneurs in the software-centric consumer and enterprise sectors across the United States. The organization assists founders at crucial stages of their business development by providing strategic advice, financing, and support for mergers and acquisitions. Unlike traditional venture capital firms that typically invest in a limited number of companies annually, SV Angel is known for its high volume of investments, often exceeding 100 companies each year. By leveraging its extensive network, SV Angel aims to help startups build sustainable and enduring companies.

Ashvin Bachireddy

Managing Partner

Topher Conway

Managing Partner

Robert Pollak

Partner

Past deals in Speech Recognition

David AI

Seed Round in 2025
We transform audio into intelligence — building proprietary data and cutting-edge audio analytics to fuel the next generation of AI.

ElevenLabs

Series B in 2024
ElevenLabs researching and deploying novel methods in voice AI to make content enjoyable in any language and voice to benefit new audiences and viewers. The company's mission is to make content universally accessible in any language and voice.

ElevenLabs

Venture Round in 2023
ElevenLabs researching and deploying novel methods in voice AI to make content enjoyable in any language and voice to benefit new audiences and viewers. The company's mission is to make content universally accessible in any language and voice.

Character.ai

Venture Round in 2023
Character.ai provides open-ended conversational applications in which users create characters and converse with them. The company aims to create dialogue agents with a broad range of uses in entertainment, instruction, general question-answering, and other areas. The business specializes in neural language models, which can be used as tools for creativity, idea generation, language learning, and a variety of other tasks. Users can access dialogue agents that are propelled by in-house technology.

Character.ai

Seed Round in 2023
Character.ai provides open-ended conversational applications in which users create characters and converse with them. The company aims to create dialogue agents with a broad range of uses in entertainment, instruction, general question-answering, and other areas. The business specializes in neural language models, which can be used as tools for creativity, idea generation, language learning, and a variety of other tasks. Users can access dialogue agents that are propelled by in-house technology.

TalkIQ

Seed Round in 2016
Since 2014, TalkIQ has offered voice‐to‐text transcription and analytics for clients across a wide variety of industries. Using cutting edge deep‐learning algorithms, proprietary speech recognition and predictive analytics technology, we give our clients visibility into all of their phone conversations, extracting insights for uses ranging from sales optimization, to customer service, compliance, and more. Our recommendations enable teams to save time and maximize productivity, though quick access to action-oriented data & analysis. TalkIQ is backed by prominent Silicon Valley VC firms and is helmed by an advisory board with decades of experience in the speech and language recognition fields.

&Ava

Seed Round in 2016
Ava is a company that specializes in a live captioning platform utilizing artificial intelligence to transcribe spoken language into text. This application aims to enhance accessibility for the 466 million individuals worldwide who are deaf or hard of hearing. By translating conversations into color-coded text and providing instant captions, Ava facilitates seamless engagement in group discussions and other social interactions. The platform not only empowers deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals to participate more fully in their environments but also fosters improved communication and connection among all participants.

&Ava

Venture Round in 2015
Ava is a company that specializes in a live captioning platform utilizing artificial intelligence to transcribe spoken language into text. This application aims to enhance accessibility for the 466 million individuals worldwide who are deaf or hard of hearing. By translating conversations into color-coded text and providing instant captions, Ava facilitates seamless engagement in group discussions and other social interactions. The platform not only empowers deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals to participate more fully in their environments but also fosters improved communication and connection among all participants.

Wit.AI

Seed Round in 2014
Wit.ai, Inc. is a company based in Palo Alto, California, that specializes in natural language processing solutions. Founded in 2013, it offers an application programming interface (API) that allows developers to integrate natural language interfaces into their applications and devices, facilitating interactions through speech or text. Wit.ai enables the creation of voice interfaces that learn from user interactions, continuously improving their understanding of human language. As of January 2015, Wit.ai operates as a subsidiary of Facebook, Inc. The platform empowers developers to build conversational applications, leveraging community contributions to enhance its capabilities.

Vocal Point

Venture Round in 2000
Vocal Point's mission is to provide the most effective voice solutions for delivering web content and commerce over any phone. The company was incorporated in 1997 and has been awarded several SBIR grants for speech recognition in various high noise environments, such as within the cockpits of F16 fighter planes.

Tellme Networks

Series A in 1999
Tellme specializes in voice recognition and instruction technology that enhances how individuals access information via telephone. By integrating Internet data with a voice interface, Tellme allows users to simply voice their queries to receive relevant answers. The company's platform supports various services, including business search, customer service, and ordering solutions for prominent companies such as American Airlines, Merrill Lynch, and FedEx. Tellme's interactive voice response system provides information on movies, sports, news, stock quotes, and weather, catering to multiple sectors including airlines, financial services, healthcare, travel, retail, and logistics. Acquired by Microsoft in 2007, Tellme's technology is now utilized across Microsoft products, including Windows Phone, Bing voice search, and Xbox voice recognition.
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