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Text input technology enabling users to type words with one continuous finger motion across an on-screen keyboard

Seattle, United StatesFounded 2002Consumer Services
Valuation $100–250M Last recorded · 2011
Revenue <$1M Latest reported FY
Total funding $10–50M Disclosed equity funding
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At a glance

Status
Acquired
Founded
2002
Headquarters
Seattle, United States
Open positions
None listed
Dealroom signal
23.0/100
Industry
Gaming
Sector
Consumer Services, Predictive Analytics, Game Development, Hard Tech, DT and LS
Technology
Big Data, Deep Tech

Funding history

7 recorded events

Company financing events and reported valuations.

Deal typeDateAmountValuationInvestorsSource
ACQUISITION✓Exit Oct 2011 $100M $100M Nuance Communications ↗
SERIES C✓Equity / VC Jul 2011 $2.5M $10M Samsung Ventures · Ignition Partners · Benaroya Capital · DoCoMo Capital —
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Financials

Revenue over time

Revenue, earnings and other financial measures where available. Years marked “E” are estimates.

YearRevenueGrowth
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020 —
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Growth signals

Swype website traffic

Latest recorded traffic for Swype is 1.8K monthly website visits, down 10% over the last three months.

Latest monthly visits1.8K 3-month web change-10%
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Investments and acquisitions

Capital deployed

Recent portfolio relationships for companies that also act as investors or acquirers.

Investors

8 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Seed1 investor entered at this stage

  • Don Dodge

Series B and later5 investors entered at this stage

  • Ignition Partners
  • NGP Capital
  • Samsung Ventures
  • DoCoMo Capital
  • Benaroya Capital

Other known investors2 additional known investors

  • Nuance Communications
  • Sood Ventures
Team profiled 8 named & role-tagged
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Key operators 2 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
🇺🇸 United States · Seattle HQ
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Market sentiment

Posts on X, past 7 days

An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Swype 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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