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SoundHound
AI · Santa Clara, United States · Founded 2005 Unicorn
SoundHound mafia
Startups founded by SoundHound alumni
Former SoundHound employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Global footprint
Where SoundHound has talent and traffic
(40 of 750 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$79M patent portfolio · 218 active families
Where SoundHound concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across SoundHound and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
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.
6 deals across SoundHound's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
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.
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”.
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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