Speak helps you get better at speaking english.
People spend $90 billion a year on human english teachers that are expensive and ineffective. Speak offers a mobile app where you can have english conversations with your phone about real world scenarios like interviewing for a job or asking for directions. It uses speech recognition to identify english words through thick accents and teach people to speak more clearly. Meanwhile, it’s building a massive database of accented-english speech, which can be used to improve its system and other speech recognition systems. Speak’s team formerly built accent detection systems and sold Flashcards+ to Chegg. Though AI translation might reduce the need for people to know other languages, speaking English remains a valuable skill people are willing to pay for.
Announced Date | Round | Money Raised | Number of Investors | Lead Investors | Post Valuation | |
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Nov 17, 2022 | Series B | $27M | 6 | OpenAI Startup Fund | — | Detail |
Aug 1, 2020 | Series A | $11M | 2 | JAM Fund Justin Mateen | — | Detail |
Mar 20, 2017 | Seed | — | 4 | Khosla Ventures | — | Detail |
Investor Name | Lead Investor | Funding Round |
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OpenAI Startup Fund | Yes | Series B |
JAM Fund | Yes | Series A |
Khosla Ventures | Yes | Seed |
Founders Fund | — | Series B |
Gokul Rajaram | — | Series B |
Josh Buckley | — | Series B |
Justin Mateen | — | Series B |
Lachy Groom | — | Series B |
Investo | — | Seed |
Y Combinator | — | Seed |