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Deepgram

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Founded 2015Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Deepgram is a foundational AI company on a mission to understand human language. We give any developer access to the most advanced speech AI transcription and understanding with just an API call.

Our models deliver the fastest, most accurate transcription alongside contextual features like summarization, sentiment analysis, and topic detection. Beyond that, developers can:

🔊 Process live-streaming or pre-recorded audio

🌎 Transcribe in dozens of languages

⚙️ Train custom models for unique use cases

🔑 Access deep NLU with a unified API

💻 Build in any programming language with our SDKs

✅ Deploy on-prem or on DG’s managed cloud

📈 Get scalable GPU infra for training and inference

Deepgram is a proud NVIDIA partner and Y Combinator company, and we recently completed a $72M Series B to define the future of AI Speech Understanding, making us the most-funded speech AI company at its stage.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Product & workflow

Resource Hub AI Glossary AI Voice Generator Tool Introducing Deepgram's Voice Agent API Deepgram and Amazon Connect Integration

Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-17

Founders & team

No directly sourced team information is available yet.

115team members reported
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Founded 2015 · Source

Origins

Deepgram was founded in 2015 by Scott Stephenson, Adam Sypniewski, and Noah Shutty—all former physicists at the University of Michigan. Fascinated with the idea of life-streaming, Scott and Noah built wearable recording devices, on which they recorded hundreds of hours of their voice notes, conversations, and chance interactions as they went about their days. This presented a problem: how to sift through all that audio data. Translating his research work on “listening” for signatures of dark matter interactions using end-to-end deep learning, Scott built a deep learning model capable of searching through voice data. The three founders left academia to move to the Bay Area and start Deepgram.

Founder account As recorded 2026-09-15

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Y Combinator

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Pricing evidenceA pricing page was detected
Maturity: Operating · 3 of 6 areas documented

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