Speak

Edtech · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2016

Offers an AI-powered language learning app that provides personalized tutoring and instant feedback to help users achieve fluency through spoken practice

Valuation $1–2.5B

Revenue $100–500M

Headcount 100–500

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Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Talent graph

Speak's talent

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Employees mapped 312 incl. 7 AI specialists

Founders /100 quality score

Key operators 9 quality /100

Potential founders likely future founders

Startup mafia alumni-founded startups

Talent movements in · out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

15 investors on Speak's cap table

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

Seed 4 investors entered at this stage

Justin Martin

Y Combinator

Khosla Ventures

Founders Fund

Series A 3 investors entered at this stage

Josh Berkeley

Sam Altman

Lachy Groom

Series B+ 8 investors entered at this stage

Paul Graham

Buckley Ventures

OpenAI Startup Fund

Gokul Rajaram

Ownership

Who owns Speak

Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (2026). Percentages are indicative.

25% Founders

Khosla Ventures 14%

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Global footprint

Where Speak has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

21 countries with
team presence

🇺🇸 United States57.8%

🇰🇷 South Korea16.2%

🇯🇵 Japan6.4%

🇹🇼 Taiwan3.8%

🇮🇱 Israel1.9%

Top 5 of 21 shown

Web traffic by country

680K monthly visits
across markets

🏳️ Korea33.3%

🏳️ Republic of6.6%

🇺🇸 United States5.6%

🇯🇵 Japan4.7%

🇮🇩 Indonesia4.6%

Top 5 markets shown

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Speak

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Speak 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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