Speak

company

About

Speak helps you get better at speaking english.

Details

Last Funding Type
Series B
Last Funding Money Raised
$27M
Industries
Artificial Intelligence,E-Learning,Speech Recognition
Founded date
Jan 1, 2016
Number Of Employee
11 - 50
Operating Status
Active

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.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds
Total Funding Amount
3
$38M
Speak has raised a total of $38M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Nov 17, 2022 from a Series B round.
Announced Date Round Money Raised Number of Investors Lead Investors Post Valuation
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

Investors

Number of Lead Investors
Number of Investors
4
10
Speak is funded by 10 investors. OpenAI Startup Fund and JAM Fund are the most recent investors.
Investor Name Lead Investor Funding Round
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

Employee Profiles

Number of Employee Profiles
2
Speak has 2 current employee profiles, including Executive Connor Zwick
Executive
Employee