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    SoundHound is an innovator in sound recognition and search technologies. The Company's Houndify is the first independent AI platform that enables developers and business owners to deploy it anywhere and retain control of their brand and users, while differentiating and innovating. Houndify provides all the technology ingredients necessary for voice and AI integration, including the world’s fastest speech recognition, the most sophisticated natural language understanding, easy to use developer tools, knowledge graphs and a large and rapidly growing number of domains. SoundHound's voice search and assistant app, Hound, leverages its Speech-to-Meaning and Deep Meaning Understanding technologies on a consumer app experience. The Company's music recognition app applies the technology to the listening experience, enabling people to discover, explore and share the music around them.

    Market valuation(2017-11-06)
    $1 B
    Total Funding
    $225 M
    Type
    Private
    HQ
    Santa Clara, US
    Founded
    2005
    Size (employees)
    216 (est)+3%
    Website
    soundhound.com
    SoundHound was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, US
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    Key People/Management at SoundHound

    Keyvan Mohajer

    Keyvan Mohajer

    Founder & CEO
    Majid Emami

    Majid Emami

    Co-Founder & VP Engineering
    James Hom

    James Hom

    Co-Founder & VP Products
    Katie McMahon

    Katie McMahon

    VP & General Manager
    Tim Stonehocker

    Tim Stonehocker

    CTO
    Kamyar Mohajer

    Kamyar Mohajer

    VP Corporate Strategy and International Expansion
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    SoundHound Office Locations

    SoundHound has offices in Santa Clara, Tokyo, Toronto and San Francisco
    Santa Clara, US (HQ)
    5400 Betsy Ross Dr
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    SoundHound Financials and Metrics

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    Founding Date

    		2005

    Total Funding

    		$225 m

    Latest funding size

    		$100 m

    Time since last funding

    		2 months ago

    Investors

    		Hyundai, Global Catalyst Partners, Orange S.A., Translink Capital Partners, Tencent, Walden Venture Capital, Nvidia, Midea Group, Daimler AG., KPBC
    SoundHound's latest funding round in May 2018 was reported to be $100 m. In total, SoundHound has raised $225 m. SoundHound's latest valuation is reported to be $1 b.
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    SoundHound Financials

    Market valuation

    		1 b
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    SoundHound Operating Metrics

    Jan, 2017

    Downloads

    		300 m
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    Competitors

    Entertainment One
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    Audio Network
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    AudioMicro
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    Focusrite
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    SoundHound News and Updates

    May 03, 2018

    SoundHound takes in $100M to challenge Alexa and Google Assistant

    A surprisingly large proportion of the voice-activated devices out there don’t rely on Alexa, Google Assistant or Siri to power their conversational interfaces. Many hardware makers are instead opting to use technology from a startup called SoundHound Inc. that today announced it has raised $100 mil…
    May 03, 2018

    SoundHound raises $100 million from Tencent, Hyundai, other strategic investors

    SoundHound today announced it has closed a $100 million funding round to accelerate the international growth of its Houndify voice AI platform, adopt new languages, open additional offices, and put its Hound voice assistant in devices from home appliances to cars. Investors in the round include Tenc…
    May 03, 2018

    SoundHound has raised a big $100M round to take on Alexa and Google Assistant

    As SoundHound looks to leverage its ten-plus years of experience and data to create a voice recognition tool that companies can bake into any platform, it’s raising another big $100 million round of funding to try to make its Houndify platform a third neutral option compared to Alexa and Google Assi…
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