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Wispr startup funding profile

Wispr Flow turns speech into formatted text across apps — a voice interface company expanding into meeting notes and its own speech model (Canto).

Stage

series b

Status

private

Coverage

full

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)

Fundraising history

Series B

2026-08 $280M Valuation: $2B

Menlo Ventures (lead)
Notable Capital (participant)
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) (participant)
8VC (participant)
Together Fund (participant)
Peak XV (participant)

Source: https://wisprflow.ai/post/series-b

Investors in our directory

Funds linked from Wispr's profile — open a fund page for stage focus and related deal articles.

Menlo Ventures 8VC New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Together Fund

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.

Granola / Fireflies / Read AI adjacent

Meeting intelligence; overlapping as Wispr ships Notetaker.
Apple / Google / Microsoft voice incumbent

Free assistants and dictation with OS distribution.
Desktop Whisper wrappers direct

Local or API dictation without Wispr’s multi-app formatting layer.

Industries

AI & Machine Learning Developer Tools Enterprise SaaS

FAQs about Wispr

Practical answers founders, operators, and investors typically search for.

Wispr Flow is an AI voice app that dictates and formats text across other applications. The company is adding meeting Notetaker and a proprietary speech model, Canto.

Series B led by Menlo Ventures (/fund/menlo-ventures). Directory participants include 8VC (/fund/8vc), NEA (/fund/new-enterprise-associates), and Together Fund (/fund/together-fund).

Private, Series B as of August 17, 2026 ($280M at $2B).

This round’s company post does not list Y Combinator.

Fireflies is a meeting notetaker. Wispr’s core product is replacing typing in any app; Notetaker is an expansion of the same speech stack.

No. That is a company usage statistic, not ARR.

Tanay Kothari, CEO and co-founder, authored the Series B post.

Private as of August 2026.

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Last updated: 2026-08-18