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SoundHound
Voice recognition tool that companies can bake into any platform
At a glance
- Founded
- 2005
- Headquarters
- Santa Clara, United States
- Listing
- Public via SPAC 2021
- Sector
- AI
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning SoundHound.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed1 investor entered at this stage
Series A4 investors entered at this stage
Felicis- GPGlobal Catalyst Partners
Pejman Nozad- BYBobby Yazdani
Series B and later15 investors entered at this stage
- DVDaimler Technology and Venture
Tencent- TCTransLink Capital
- HCHyundai Motor Company
- SHSharesPost
- MGMidea Group
- SFSamsung Catalyst Fund
- SISompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance
- OROrange
- NONomura
- WCWalden Venture Capital
- SCSamsung Strategy & Innovation Center
Kleiner Perkins
Nvidia- RERecruit
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former SoundHound employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Eric BallUnited States
Tahem VermaUnited States
Filip RejmusGermanyGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
125 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 SoundHound was the 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.
6 deals across SoundHound's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
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.
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”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about SoundHound 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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