Deepgram History

Our path to pioneering Voice AI solutions.

2015

Deepgram, Inc

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

2016

Y Combinator & other seed funding

  • Funding begins
  • Deepgram wins their first customer, iCracked
2017

R&D Phase

English ASR phase

2018

Sales-led funnel launch

First customers won:

  • New Zealand Parliament
  • Smart Rhino/Randall Reilly
2019

Series A

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

2020

Series B

  • Deepgram raised Series B $25M
  • Team expansion begins
  • First non-English language launch (Spanish, Turkish, Hindi)
2021

Console launch and PLG-funnel launched

2022

Series B extension

2023

LLMs research expands and new product announcements

2024

Voice AI era and acquisition

2025

Deepgram became the default API for the Voice AI economy

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