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Wispr funding, valuation and investors
Wispr Flow turns speech into formatted text across apps — a voice interface company expanding into meeting notes and its own speech model (Canto).
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Series B
$280M · August 2026
Latest known valuation
$2B
Series B · August 2026
Total disclosed equity funding
$280M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
private
series b · San Francisco, California, USA
Investors in latest funding
Lead: Menlo Ventures
Other: Notable Capital , NEA , 8VC , Together Fund , Peak XV
Overview
Wispr (product: Wispr Flow) is a San Francisco company building voice as a computer interface. CEO and co-founder Tanay Kothari announced a $280 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation on August 17, 2026, led by long-time investor Menlo Ventures. Total capital raised: $361 million. Existing investors: Notable Capital, NEA, Neo Ventures, 8VC, and MVP Ventures. New investors include Acrew, Activate, Forerunner, Goodwater, Peak XV, Together Fund, and PLUS Capital. Company-reported usage: more than 60 billion words written with Flow; people at almost all Fortune 500 companies; over 10,000 enterprises. Product: Flow dictation, Notetaker for meetings, preview of proprietary speech model Canto (company: noisy-condition word error from 30%+ to 5–10%).
Why Wispr is interesting
August 17, 2026 Series B: $280M at $2B led by Menlo Ventures with 8VC, NEA, and Together Fund in the syndicate — financing zero-edit dictation in noisy, multilingual conditions, not another meeting-bot demo.
Product & use cases
Cross-app AI dictation (Flow) plus meeting notes and a proprietary speech model (Canto) aimed at noisy, multilingual real-world audio.
- Replacing keyboard input in email, docs, and chat
- Meeting notes (Notetaker)
- Multilingual / code-switching dictation (e.g. Hinglish — company example)
Key facts
- Series B (Aug 17, 2026): $280M at $2B led by Menlo Ventures; $361M total (company)
- Directory investors: Menlo (/fund/menlo-ventures), 8VC (/fund/8vc), NEA (/fund/new-enterprise-associates), Together Fund (/fund/together-fund)
- Company: 60B+ words; 10,000+ enterprises; Canto model preview; Notetaker launched the prior week
- Prior round less than 10 months earlier at a $700M valuation (TechCrunch)
Funding history (newest first)
Series B
2026-08 $280M Valuation: $2B- Menlo Ventures (lead)
- Notable Capital (participant)
- NEA (participant)
- 8VC (participant)
- Together Fund (participant)
- Peak XV (participant)
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Competitive landscape
Edge: Usage loop (billions of words) plus an explicit zero-edit-rate goal in messy audio — OS incumbents remain the existential risk.
Voice UX commoditizes quickly. Wispr has to win on accuracy in real conditions and habit across apps. Meeting AI is a crowded add-on, not the original wedge.
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Granola / Fireflies / Read AI adjacent
Meeting intelligence; overlapping as Wispr ships Notetaker.
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Apple / Google / Microsoft voice incumbent
Free assistants and dictation with OS distribution.
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Desktop Whisper wrappers direct
Local or API dictation without Wispr’s multi-app formatting layer.
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