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
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
- Deepgram launched console to build with voice AI
- PLG-funnel swings into motion
- Streaming (re-)launch
2022
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
2023
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
2024
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
2025
Deepgram became the default API for the Voice AI economy
- Nova-3 Speech to Text launched in 30+ languages
- Announced Flux: The world's first conversational speech recognition built for voice agents
- Deepgram launched Aura-2 Text to Speech model with 50+ natural voices
- Voice Agent API GA launched, powering human-like conversations in real-time
- Deepgram Saga arrived, pioneering the Voice OS for productivity
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