Wit.ai raises $3 Million led by A16Z to make everything voice-controlled

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▤ Summary

Natural Language Processing startup Wit.ai has raised a $3 Million seed round, led by Andreessen Horowitz (Chris Dixon), with participation from Ignition Partners, NEA, A-Grade, SVAngel, Eric Hahn, Alven Capital, and TenOneTen. The startup, co-founded by Alex Lebrun, Willy Blandin & Laurent Landowski, went through Y-Combinator previous, and also announced LISTEN Conference, taking place on November 6th in San Francisco. As a product, Wit’s API enables end-users to interface via voice command on mobile apps (iOS, Android, etc. Wit.ai is poised to rewrite the voice-layer of the internet, currently fragmented across multiple devices (Siri vs. SAMI vs. Google Voice, …. I spoke yesterday with Luc Julia, who heads up SAMI at Samsung and spoke at the Connected Conference earlier this year, who said that the 200+ devices that he has rigged in his home are all voice-enabled through a connected between Wit & SAMI.

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Amount $3.0M Total raised
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Date October 15, 2014 Announcement date
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Investors - Lead investors
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Company https://wit.ai Funded company

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Web and Content Management

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Natural Language Processing Software Development Artificial Intelligence

▦ Linked Companies

Wit.ai
$1M to $5M