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SoundHound

AI · Santa Clara, United States · Founded 2005 · Public via SPAC 2021

Voice recognition tool that companies can bake into any platform

Valuation $2.47B
Revenue $232M

Investors

20 investors on SoundHound's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 1 investor entered at this stage
Series A 4 investors entered at this stage
Felicis
Global Catalyst Partners
Pejman Nozad
Bobby Yazdani
Series B+ 15 investors entered at this stage
Daimler Technology and Venture
Tencent
TransLink Capital
Hyundai Motor Company
SharesPost
Midea Group
Samsung Catalyst Fund
Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance
Orange
Nomura
Walden Venture Capital
Samsung Strategy & Innovation Center
Kleiner Perkins
Nvidia
Recruit

Global footprint

Where SoundHound has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
26 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States52.5%
🇮🇳 India12.5%
🇨🇦 Canada11%
🇩🇪 Germany6.9%
🇫🇷 France5.1%
Top 5 of 26 shown
Web traffic by country
560K monthly visits
across markets
🇨🇳 China12.2%
🇺🇸 United States11.3%
🇮🇳 India9.9%
🇻🇳 Vietnam4.4%
🏳️ Russian Federation4.2%
Top 5 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of SoundHound's talent

Dealroom maps SoundHound's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

38 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org
40 AI specialistsincl. 24 core researchers
778 employees mappedperson by person
DimensionScore
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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.

Patent intelligence

$49M patent portfolio · 125 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$49M
2.0% of market cap · 8.8× larger than top peer Verbit.ai ($6M)
125 active patent families
Where SoundHound innovates Audio frequencyAutomatic speechData miningData scienceHuman–computer interaction

Where SoundHound concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across SoundHound and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

SoundHound's 6 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where SoundHound appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2023–2026. 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.

Portfolio analysis

6 deals across SoundHound's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        Where SoundHound 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.

        Compare against

        02 · Portfolio market map

        SoundHound'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”.

        Stage
        Period
        6 of 6 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about SoundHound

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about SoundHound on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

        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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