Deepgram

Building foundational AI for speech transcription and understanding.

deepgram.com

HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA

B2B

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 16, 2026

Overview

Deepgram is a real-time voice AI platform that provides enterprise speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and speech-to-speech APIs for developers and businesses building voice-enabled products, agents, and workflows.

Primary product

Voice AI API platform (STT, TTS, STS, and Voice Agent APIs)

Founded

2015

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Team size

201-500

Work style

Remote

Industry

Software Development

Sub-industry

Voice AI / Speech AI / Conversational AI infrastructure

Offices

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Business model

API usage-based SaaS

enterprise software

self-hosted / on-prem licensing

platform subscriptions

Funding

Stage

Series C

Total raised

$235.1M

Latest round

Series C · Jan 2026

Latest amount

$130M

Series C

Jan 2026

$130M

Venture Round

Mar 2018

Seed Round

Sep 2016 · Y Combinator, Compound

$1.8M

Pre Seed Round

Nov 2015 · Boost VC

Corporate Round

Jan 2015

People & investors

Leadership

Scott Stephenson

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Adam Sypniewski

CTO / Executive Officer / Director

Zach DeWitt

Director

Dave Wilner

Director

Elizabeth de Saint-Aignan

Director

Holly Hogan

General Counsel

Lauren Mirkovich Taft

Head of Talent

Jason Rubinstein

VP Finance

Ralphie White

VP of Customer Success

Abe Pursell

VP, Global Business Development and EMEA Sales

Founders

Noah Shutty

Co-Founder

Investors

Work & culture

Careers page emphasizes a collaborative culture with cross-functional teamwork, help-seeking across teams, flexible schedules, and support for learning and well-being.

Work style

Remote

Compensation

Public careers materials surfaced benefits and many open roles, but no explicit salary bands were found in the searched sources.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Annual wellness stipend

Mental health support

Life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Flexible schedule

12 paid US company holidays

Quarterly productivity stipend

One-time office upgrade stipend

401(k) with company match

Tax savings programs

Learning / education stipend

Participation in talks and conferences

Employee resource groups

Product & market

Pricing

Usage-based API pricing with enterprise/self-hosted/on-prem options; exact public pricing details were not fully captured in search results.

Differentiators

—Real-time, low-latency voice AI infrastructure
—Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and speech-to-speech in one platform
—Cloud, private cloud, and on-prem deployment flexibility
—Enterprise-grade runtime and self-hosted options
—Strong accuracy/pricing positioning
—Large-scale voice experience with 50,000+ years of audio processed and 1T+ words transcribed

Technology

Azure Databricks

Stripe

PostgreSQL

GitHub

SQS

Salesforce

HubSpot

Okta

OpenAI

Grafana

React

GitLab

Ansible

Terraform

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Datadog

Amplitude

Snowflake

Python

Customers

200,000+ developers

1,300+ organizations

Technology ISVs building voice products or platforms

Large enterprise customers via co-sell partners

Enterprises using internal voice AI use cases

IBM watsonx Orchestrate customers

AWS ecosystem customers

Restaurant/QSR operators via Deepgram for Restaurants

Competitors

AssemblyAI

Google Cloud Speech-to-Text

Amazon Transcribe

OpenAI speech/voice offerings

Speechmatics

Azure AI Speech

Rev AI

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

$10M-$50M ARR (estimated from Exa company profile showing $24.2M annual revenue; not independently audited)

Estimated monthly visits

740.4K

Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026

Signals & risks

Acquisition

Jan 2026

Deepgram announced the acquisition of OfOne to expand into restaurant and drive-thru voice automation.

Source

Other

Jun 2026

Deepgram announced private/on-prem voice AI with Fortanix and NVIDIA Confidential Computing, signaling a continued focus on regulated-industry deployments rather than distress.

Source