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Nuance Communications
Speech, imaging, and keypad solutions for businesses, organizations, and consumers worldwide
At a glance
- Founded
- 1992
- Headquarters
- Burlington, United States
- Listing
- IPO 1995
- Sector
- Health
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Knowledge graph
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Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed2 investors entered at this stage
F-Prime- SCSAIC Capital
Series B and later3 investors entered at this stage
- SUStanford University
- VIVisa
- SISRI International
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Nuance Communications employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
NANablaEst. 2018
Alexandre LebrunFrance
ZEZegoEst. 2016
Stuart KellyUnited Kingdom
Sharon ZhangUnited States
TITinyFishEst. 2024
Shuhao ZhangUnited States
XEXealthEst. 2017
Sundar BalasubramanianUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
531 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Nuance Communications was the backer or acquirer, 2000–2021. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
57 deals across Nuance Communications's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Nuance Communications deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
Nuance Communications's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Nuance Communications on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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