Wispr raises $280 million at $2B valuation in funding round
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Wispr, the team behind the popular voice tool Wispr Flow, just raised $280 million in fresh funding, pushing its valuation to $2 billion.
The round brought in some big names, including athletes Klay Thompson and Shaun White, alongside top investors like Menlo Ventures and Peak XV.
Wispr launches Canto and meeting notetaker
Wispr Flow is everywhere right now, used by people at nearly all Fortune 500 companies and over 10,000 businesses. It's already processed more than 60 billion words!
Wispr recently rolled out an AI meeting notetaker and a new speech model called Canto that handles noisy rooms and even mixes languages like Hinglish.
India has become a major focus too, with new hires and an Advanced Interfaces Lab led by an Amazon Alexa veteran to push what voice tech can do next.