Tuesday, January 31, 2017

SoundHound Finds $75M

Santa Clara-based SoundHound, a developer of voice recognition and artificial intelligence software, said this morning that it has raised $75M in a funding round. The funding came from NVIDIA GPU Ventures, Samsung Catalyst Fund, Nomura Holdings, Inc., Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Inc., and RSI Fund I (a VC arm of Recruit Holdings) along with Kleiner Perkins, SharesPost 100 Fund, and MKaNN plus prior investors Global Catalyst Partners, Walden Venture Capital, and TransLink Capital. The company said it has now raised a total of $115M. Keyvan Mohajer is co-founder and CEO of SoundHound. More information »