Deepgram History

Deepgram, Inc

Deepgram is founded on August 18, 2015 at 12:52pm EST

Y Combinator & other seed funding

• Funding begins

• Deepgram wins their first customer, iCracked

R&D Phase

English ASR phase

Sales-led funnel launch

First customers won:

• New Zealand Parliament

• Smart Rhino/Randall Reilly

Series A

Deepgram raised $12 million to solve speech recognition in the Enterprise

Series B

• Deepgram raised Series B $25M

• Team expansion begins

• First non-English language launch (Spanish, Turkish, Hindi)

Console launch and PLG-funnel launched

• Deepgram launched console to build with voice AI

• PLG-funnel swings into motion

• Streaming (re-)launch

Series B extension

• Deepgram completes $72M Series B round to define the future of Speech Understanding

• Language Expansion

• Speech understanding launch

• Deepgram reaches 100 employees

LLMs research expands and new product announcements

• LLMs research for improved understanding and generation AI

• Deepgram's API Playground has launched

• Deepgram introduces Nova-2 speech-to-text API

Voice AI era and acquisition

• Deepgram introduces Aura, text-to-speech for voice AI agents

• Deepgram acquires Poised

• Deepgram announces Nova-2 speech-to-text now supports 36 languages and counting

• New audio intelligence models for sentiment, intent, and topic detection

• New Nova-2 medical model

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