TandemLaunch

TandemLaunch is an accelerator based in Montréal, Canada that scouts, accelerates, and commercializes early-stage technologies from universities, in close partnership with major consumer electronics brands. The program provides entrepreneurs with mentorship, turn-key engineering and business resources, and up to $800k in seed financing. Graduates can pursue additional investment through TandemLaunch Ventures and its network of more than 50 limited partners. Founded in 2010, the company focuses on supporting early-stage technology ventures and aims to bring academic innovations to international markets through collaborative ecosystem partnerships.

Emilie Boutros

Managing Partner

Past deals in Speech Recognition

Waveshaper

Seed Round in 2025
Waveshaper delivers real-time, on-device audio processing powered by AI-driven neural networks. The company's platform enables scalable, low-latency audio enhancement across devices by providing features such as microphone calibration, voice enhancement, denoising, echo cancellation, spectral recovery, de-clipping, and mastering, all optimized for minimal resource use. It supports codeless deployment, making integration easier for manufacturers and developers, and offers online AI models for experimentation and testing. By focusing on real-time processing and on-device execution, Waveshaper enables consumer electronics, automotive, and professional audio applications to deliver improved sound quality without requiring specialized hardware or extensive coding. The company emphasizes accessibility and speed, helping brands incorporate advanced audio enhancements into products while maintaining performance and energy efficiency.

Soundskrit

Seed Round in 2019
Soundskrit is a Montreal-based company that specializes in the development of innovative velocity-based directional microphones designed to enhance audio capture in smart devices. Founded in 2017, the company aims to address the limitations of traditional pressure-based microphones, which pick up sound from all directions and often require multiple units to isolate specific audio sources. Soundskrit's bio-inspired technology measures the velocity of incoming sound, allowing a single microphone to effectively separate and identify sounds from various directions without compromising size or audio quality. This advancement significantly improves speech recognition and sound localization capabilities, enabling a new range of features in consumer electronics, particularly in noisy environments and multi-speaker scenarios.

Soundskrit

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Soundskrit is a Montreal-based company that specializes in the development of innovative velocity-based directional microphones designed to enhance audio capture in smart devices. Founded in 2017, the company aims to address the limitations of traditional pressure-based microphones, which pick up sound from all directions and often require multiple units to isolate specific audio sources. Soundskrit's bio-inspired technology measures the velocity of incoming sound, allowing a single microphone to effectively separate and identify sounds from various directions without compromising size or audio quality. This advancement significantly improves speech recognition and sound localization capabilities, enabling a new range of features in consumer electronics, particularly in noisy environments and multi-speaker scenarios.

Fluent.ai

Seed Round in 2017
Fluent.ai is a Montreal-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in advanced speech recognition solutions. The company employs a unique machine learning approach that enables its technology to understand natural phrases across various languages, accents, and challenging noise environments, such as those found in smart homes and connected vehicles. Fluent.ai's speech recognition engine is designed to provide personalized voice user interfaces that can function both online and offline, making it suitable for a wide range of applications, including wearables and virtual reality headsets. By focusing on understanding the meaning of audible speech rather than converting it to text, Fluent.ai offers a reliable and flexible solution for businesses aiming to enhance user interaction through voice technology.

Fluent.ai

Seed Round in 2017
Fluent.ai is a Montreal-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in advanced speech recognition solutions. The company employs a unique machine learning approach that enables its technology to understand natural phrases across various languages, accents, and challenging noise environments, such as those found in smart homes and connected vehicles. Fluent.ai's speech recognition engine is designed to provide personalized voice user interfaces that can function both online and offline, making it suitable for a wide range of applications, including wearables and virtual reality headsets. By focusing on understanding the meaning of audible speech rather than converting it to text, Fluent.ai offers a reliable and flexible solution for businesses aiming to enhance user interaction through voice technology.

Fluent.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Fluent.ai is a Montreal-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in advanced speech recognition solutions. The company employs a unique machine learning approach that enables its technology to understand natural phrases across various languages, accents, and challenging noise environments, such as those found in smart homes and connected vehicles. Fluent.ai's speech recognition engine is designed to provide personalized voice user interfaces that can function both online and offline, making it suitable for a wide range of applications, including wearables and virtual reality headsets. By focusing on understanding the meaning of audible speech rather than converting it to text, Fluent.ai offers a reliable and flexible solution for businesses aiming to enhance user interaction through voice technology.
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