SV Angel

Founded in 2009, SV Angel is a San Francisco-based angel investment firm and service organization that backs early-stage startups, particularly in software and technology, by providing business development support, financing, strategic guidance on mergers and acquisitions, and other resources. It leverages a broad network to assist founders at critical inflection points, helping with market strategy, partnerships, and access to capital to build durable companies across the United States.

Topher Conway

Partner

Ronald Conway Sr.

Managing Partner

Ron Conway

Managing Partner

Sourav Gupta

Principal

Steven Lee

Partner

Robert Pollak

Partner

Beth Turner

General Partner

Past deals in Speech Recognition

Reflection.Ai

Series A in 2025
Reflection.AI is a start-up that develops artificial intelligence solutions, focusing on computer vision. The company provides tools to create personalized AIs that can interact and chat just like real people, using cutting-edge technology.

Character.ai

Venture Round in 2023
Character.ai develops an open-ended conversational platform where users can create characters and engage in dialogues. The company focuses on neural language models to power these interactions, facilitating creativity, learning, and entertainment.

Character.ai

Seed Round in 2023
Character.ai develops an open-ended conversational platform where users can create characters and engage in dialogues. The company focuses on neural language models to power these interactions, facilitating creativity, learning, and entertainment.

Spell

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Spell is an artificial intelligence and deep learning infrastructure company that provides an end-to-end ML platform to prepare, train, deploy, and manage machine learning projects. The platform combines command-line tools and a web console to run code and experiments on remote hardware, streamline data science workflows, and support team collaboration, project monitoring, and experiment reproducibility. It handles environment setup, code and data management, and resource orchestration to simplify DevOps tasks and accelerate ML development across applications such as natural language processing, computer vision, and speech recognition. Founded in 2017 and based in New York City, Spell aims to make advanced AI tooling accessible to teams of any size.

TalkIQ

Seed Round in 2016
TalkIQ is a technology company that specializes in voice-to-text transcription and analytics, offering its services to a diverse range of industries since its inception in 2014. The company's innovative platform utilizes advanced deep-learning algorithms and proprietary speech recognition technology to provide businesses with insights derived from customer conversations. Through a user-friendly dashboard, TalkIQ synthesizes these interactions, enabling clients to access actionable data and recommendations in real-time. This functionality helps organizations optimize sales, enhance customer service, ensure compliance, and improve overall productivity by recognizing key moments in customer interactions, such as purchase intent and objection handling. With a leadership team experienced in speech and language recognition, TalkIQ is positioned to transform how businesses learn from and respond to their customer conversations.

&Ava

Seed Round in 2016
Ava is a company that specializes in live captioning technology, utilizing artificial intelligence to transcribe spoken language into text. Its innovative platform is designed to enhance accessibility for the 466 million individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing worldwide. By providing instant captions and color-coded text, Ava's application facilitates seamless communication in group conversations, allowing users to actively participate in discussions and stay informed about their surroundings. This approach not only empowers deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals but also fosters improved connections among all participants in various social settings.

&Ava

Venture Round in 2015
Ava is a company that specializes in live captioning technology, utilizing artificial intelligence to transcribe spoken language into text. Its innovative platform is designed to enhance accessibility for the 466 million individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing worldwide. By providing instant captions and color-coded text, Ava's application facilitates seamless communication in group conversations, allowing users to actively participate in discussions and stay informed about their surroundings. This approach not only empowers deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals but also fosters improved connections among all participants in various social settings.

Wit.AI

Seed Round in 2014
Wit.AI, Inc. is a natural language solutions provider based in Palo Alto, California, incorporated in 2013. The company offers an application programming interface that enables developers to integrate natural language interfaces into their applications and devices. Wit.AI's platform facilitates the creation of voice interfaces that allow users to interact through speech or messages, transforming this input into actionable data. It employs machine learning to enhance its understanding of human language from each interaction, benefiting from contributions made by its community. In 2015, Wit.AI became a subsidiary of Facebook, Inc., further expanding its reach and capabilities in the field of natural language processing.

Babelverse

Seed Round in 2013
Babelverse is a San Francisco-based company that operates an online platform specializing in speech translation services. Founded in 2010, it is recognized as the first and only human-powered universal translator, offering on-demand interpretation in real-time across various languages. Babelverse's technology enables remote bilinguals and professional linguists to provide translation services during live interactions, whether for mobile conversations, conferences, or video content. The platform facilitates global communication by allowing users to engage in conversations seamlessly, leveraging both online technology and mobile applications.

Babelverse

Seed Round in 2012
Babelverse is a San Francisco-based company that operates an online platform specializing in speech translation services. Founded in 2010, it is recognized as the first and only human-powered universal translator, offering on-demand interpretation in real-time across various languages. Babelverse's technology enables remote bilinguals and professional linguists to provide translation services during live interactions, whether for mobile conversations, conferences, or video content. The platform facilitates global communication by allowing users to engage in conversations seamlessly, leveraging both online technology and mobile applications.

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 Networks specializes in voice recognition technology, enhancing how individuals access information via their phones. By integrating Internet data with a voice interface, Tellme enables users to verbally request information, simplifying the search process. The company's platform supports a variety of services, including business and information searches, as well as customer service solutions for major clients such as American Airlines, Merrill Lynch, and FedEx. Tellme's interactive voice response system provides users with access to real-time information on topics like movies, sports, news, stock quotes, and weather. The company caters to diverse industries, including airlines, financial services, healthcare, travel, hospitality, retail, and logistics. Acquired by Microsoft in 2007, Tellme's technology is now incorporated into various Microsoft products, including Windows Phone and Xbox voice recognition systems.
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