Changing the way we interact with digital media through audio and voice tech.
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market players defining the landscape:
Providing Black communities with the tools to connect in a space that prioritizes our needs
Stage
n/a
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
n/a
Location
United States
Founded
2020
Stage
Seed
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
$157.7K
Location
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2019
Stage
Series Unknown
Company Size
51-200
Total Raised
$41.8M
Location
Palo Alto, United States
Founded
2014
Alitu will help your record, edit and publish your podcast so you can focus on creating fantastic content to grow your audience.
Stage
Seed
Company Size
11-50
Total Raised
β¬500K
Location
Edinburgh, Scotland
Founded
2018
Stage
Seed
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
n/a
Location
n/a
Founded
2020
Stage
Acquired
Company Size
11-50
Total Raised
$14.4M
Location
New York, United States
Founded
2015
Stage
Pre-Seed
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
n/a
Location
Zurich, Switzerland
Founded
2020
Stage
Seed
Company Size
11-50
Total Raised
$6M
Location
Barcelona, Spain
Founded
2020
Frictionless text-to-speech publishing. Enhance your publishing workflow with our all-in-one audio CMS and AI voicesβ or create a custom voice.
Stage
Pre-Seed
Company Size
11-50
Total Raised
$195.6K
Location
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2018
CallCast makes podcasting simple by turning your phone calls into podcasts.
Stage
n/a
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
n/a
Location
Santa Monica, United States
Founded
2019
Stage
Seed
Company Size
n/a
Total Raised
n/a
Location
New York, United States
Founded
2019
Podcast hosting and analytics designed to grow your audience and establish a voice for your brand.
Stage
n/a
Company Size
11-50
Total Raised
n/a
Location
Winter Garden, United States
Founded
2017
Clubhouse is a new type of social product based on voice. It allows people everywhere to talk, tell stories, develop ideas, deepen friendships, and meet interesting new people around the world.
Stage
Series C
Company Size
11-50
Total Raised
$110M
Location
San Francisco, United States
Founded
2020
Stage
n/a
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
n/a
Location
n/a
Founded
2020
Stage
Series B
Company Size
51-200
Total Raised
$50M
Location
San Francisco, United States
Founded
2017
Stage
Private
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
n/a
Location
San Francisco, United States
Founded
2018
Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests - from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more.
Stage
Private
Company Size
501-1,000
Total Raised
$984.6M
Location
San Francisco, United States
Founded
2015
Stage
Public
Company Size
10,001+
Total Raised
$16.1B
Location
Menlo Park, United States
Founded
2004
Where the world's greatest creators go to bring the audience into the story through live, interactive, virtual shows.
Stage
Series A
Company Size
11-50
Total Raised
$35M
Location
n/a
Founded
n/a
Stage
Acquired
Company Size
11-50
Total Raised
$7.4M
Location
New York, United States
Founded
2017
HearMeCheer to provide audio experiences with thousands of people contributing at the same time, with live microphone input, β all with only one audio stream coming in and out of each clientβs device.
Stage
Series Unknown
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
$1.7M
Location
Toronto, Canada
Founded
2018
Add immersive, high quality, real-time voice chat to any application using our simple-to-use Spatial Audio API.
Stage
Series D
Company Size
11-50
Total Raised
$72.9M
Location
San Francisco, United States
Founded
2013
Himalaya is an audio-first educational platform featuring courses taught by world class experts and industry leaders. With concise, insightful audio lessons, our platform transforms commutes and chore time into a valuable opportunity to learn how to get ahead in your career, personal life, and more.
Stage
Series Unknown
Company Size
11-50
Total Raised
$100M
Location
San Francisco, United States
Founded
2018
KakaoTalk is a messaging and video calling app. Itβs fast, fun, simple, and reliable.
Stage
Public
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Total Raised
$1.6B
Location
Jeju-si, South Korea
Founded
2014
Learn todayβs most in-demand skills with actionable, podcast-style lessons from top experts.
Stage
Acquired
Company Size
11-50
Total Raised
$4M
Location
Los Angeles, United States
Founded
2019
LinkedIn is launching interactive, Clubhouse-style audio events this month in beta
Stage
Acquired
Company Size
10,001+
Total Raised
$154.8M
Location
Sunnyvale, United States
Founded
2002
Stage
Private
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
n/a
Location
Haryana, India
Founded
2020
Listenable is an audio-based learning platform that helps you learn new things while doing something else.
Stage
Private
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
n/a
Location
Redwood City, United States
Founded
2020
Stage
Pre-Seed
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
n/a
Location
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2019
Generate realistic Text to Speech voice over online with AI. Convert text to audio and download as MP3 & WAV files.
Stage
Private
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
n/a
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Founded
2016
Podcast hosting and monetization chosen by over 500,000 podcasters and global corporations.
Stage
Private
Company Size
11-50
Total Raised
n/a
Location
New York, United States
Founded
2007
Podcastle is an AI-powered, collaborative audio content creation platform that helps professional and amateur creators make, edit and distribute production-quality audio in seconds.
Stage
Series A
Company Size
11-50
Total Raised
$8.8M
Location
Middletown, United States
Founded
2020
The platform for independent podcasters since 2005. Easily create and share your podcast with the world for free!
Stage
Private
Company Size
11-50
Total Raised
n/a
Location
San Francisco, United States
Founded
2005
Stage
Shutdown
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
$125K
Location
San Francisco, United States
Founded
2021
Social wellness space to connect, share, and learn with others through daily conversations. β We believe that community is the greatest form of self-care. Because journaling and meditating alone can only do so much.
Stage
Seed
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
$8.3M
Location
Los Angeles, United States
Founded
2016
Stage
Seed
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
$3M
Location
Los Angeles, United States
Founded
2021
Resoundly is a podcast creation, hosting and analytics platform that lets you publish high quality podcasts.
Stage
Private
Company Size
0-1
Total Raised
n/a
Location
Brisbane, Australia
Founded
2019
Stage
Seed
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
$1.5M
Location
n/a
Founded
2020
Riverside.fm makes it easy for podcasters and media companies to record remote interviews in studio quality. End result? 4k video and WAV audio content.
Stage
Series A
Company Size
11-50
Total Raised
$12M
Location
Tel Aviv, Israel
Founded
2019
Stage
n/a
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
n/a
Location
New York, United States
Founded
n/a
Rodeo is the easiest way to talk to your friends, and their friends. Simply hop on the app, start a room & your friends will know youβre free to talk. Friends of the friends youβre talking to can join too, an easy way to meet new friends!
Stage
n/a
Company Size
n/a
Total Raised
n/a
Location
Palo Alto, United States
Founded
2021
Informal discussions youβd have in the office right in Slack. You can start a huddle in any channel or direct message (DM), invite specific people to join, and share your screen to work side-by-side with your team.
Stage
Public
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Total Raised
$1.4B
Location
San Francisco, United States
Founded
2009
Stage
n/a
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
n/a
Location
San Francisco, United States
Founded
2020
An open audio platform, powered by a connected community of creators, listeners, and curators on the pulse of what's new, now and next in culture.
Stage
Private
Company Size
201-500
Total Raised
$542.8M
Location
Berlin, Germany
Founded
2007
Power through docs, articles, PDFs, email β anything you read β by listening with our leading text-to-speech reader.
Stage
n/a
Company Size
51-200
Total Raised
n/a
Location
Kentfield, United States
Founded
2017
Spext looks like a doc but makes audio editing & publishing as easy as text. Edit audio by editing the auto-generated transcript & add music or voices.
Stage
Seed
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
n/a
Location
Berkeley, United States
Founded
2017
Listen and talk live. Talk about the music you love. Debate fantasy sports picks. Create rooms for your friends. Be heard on your favorite topics.
Stage
Public
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Total Raised
$2.1B
Location
Stockholm, Sweden
Founded
2006
You make podcasts. We make it easier for millions of people to find and listen to them. Get your show on Spotify, and see the data and insights you need to grow your audience.
Stage
Public
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Total Raised
$2.1B
Location
Stockholm, Sweden
Founded
2006
Spreaker is a 360-degree podcasting tool, providing solutions to help podcasters of all sizes throughout their journey. With our robust set of tools, podcasters across the globe can create, distribute, access stats and monetize their entire audio catalog, including backlog content.
Stage
Angel
Company Size
11-50
Total Raised
β¬720K
Location
New York, United States
Founded
2009
Create high-quality audio and video content with our in-browser software for premium recordings auto-saved with cloud storage.
Stage
Private
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
n/a
Location
Oakland, United States
Founded
2016
Talk with new people anytime, anywhere. Spark a spontaneous conversation, find people with similar interests, or simply play games.
Stage
Private
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
n/a
Location
Los Angeles, United States
Founded
2020
Swell is a social audio app that lets you quickly and easily talk about anything on your mind. Share ideas, ask questions, tell stories and jokes, discuss experiences, provide perspective and much more. Your listeners can reply with their own audio posts creating a conversation that is social, fun and engaging.
Stage
Series A
Company Size
11-50
Total Raised
$5.4M
Location
San Francisco, United States
Founded
2019
Read&Write is a literacy support tool that offers help with everyday tasks like reading text out loud, understanding unfamiliar words, researching assignments and proofing written work.
Stage
Private
Company Size
51-200
Total Raised
n/a
Location
Antrim, United Kingdom
Founded
1996
Stage
Private
Company Size
n/a
Total Raised
n/a
Location
n/a
Founded
2020
TooDeep is a peer-to-peer support platform, where people can anonymously share their thoughts and feelings thru text & audio recordings.
Stage
Seed
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
$50K
Location
San Francisco, United States
Founded
2018
Stage
Public
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Total Raised
$4.4B
Location
San Francisco, United States
Founded
2006
Stage
Public
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Total Raised
$4.4B
Location
San Francisco, United States
Founded
2006
A voice-based communication and collaboration application for executives, business professionals and salespeople. It combines voice, text and AI to deliver instantaneous communication across multiple systems.
Stage
Pre-Seed
Company Size
11-50
Total Raised
n/a
Location
Redwood City, United States
Founded
2017
Vocal is the first dating app that makes personality the focus by using spontaneous real time voice conversations to match people rather than just pictures and profiles.
Stage
n/a
Company Size
n/a
Total Raised
n/a
Location
Seattle, United States
Founded
n/a
Stage
Private
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
n/a
Location
San Francisco, United States
Founded
2018
Turn your articles to audio. Free, natural sounding voice: *Increase User Engagement *Improve Accessibility *Grow Your Subscribers
Stage
n/a
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
n/a
Location
n/a
Founded
n/a
Listen in real-time and ask questions to experienced people in areas from business to personal finance to fitness.
Stage
Seed
Company Size
11-50
Total Raised
Β£1.5M
Location
n/a
Founded
n/a
Turn any text content into audio with Realistic Voices. Convert your text to 60 natural sounding voices. Free MP3 Download and Audio hosting.
Stage
Private
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
n/a
Location
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2020
Stage
Series A
Company Size
2-10
Total Raised
$11M
Location
Florida, United States
Founded
2019
Live Group Voice Talking and Entertaining Community. Voice Chat and play games with people from nearby or all over the world.
Stage
Public
Company Size
201-500
Total Raised
n/a
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Founded
2016
The best podcasts and audiobooks, unlimited. Thousands of exclusive content, wherever you are, ad-free.
Stage
Series A
Company Size
11-50
Total Raised
$11.2M
Location
Paris, France
Founded
2018