Aqua Voice Blog · Jul 2026
Official announcement that Aqua Voice became ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified after a third-party audit; it references prior SOC 2 Type II compliance and says the company is hiring a Security Engineer.
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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Aqua Voice is a San Francisco-based AI voice-input company building a system-wide dictation app and its proprietary Avalon speech model to turn speech into clean, formatted text across desktop, mobile, terminals, and developer tools.
Primary product
Aqua Voice, a system-wide AI voice dictation app for Mac, Windows, and iOS
Founded
2023
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI voice dictation / speech recognition / text editor
Offices
Business model
Stage
pre-seed
Total raised
$2.8M
Latest round
Convertible Note · Apr 2024
Latest amount
$500K
Apr 2024 · Y Combinator
Mar 2024
Feb 2024 · Y Combinator
Investors
Small, product-focused team emphasizing speed, accuracy, deep OS integration, and security/compliance; hiring appears hands-on and engineering-heavy.
Work style
Onsite
Compensation
Public job postings show Full Stack Engineer pay of $130K–$210K plus equity and bonus, and iOS Engineer pay of $130K–$230K plus equity and bonus.
Pricing
Freemium subscription with monthly/annual plans; team and enterprise tiers; Avalon API priced separately by audio usage.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
~$300k–$500k ARR (third-party estimates; GetLatka estimates about $330k as of 2025-09-02)
Estimated monthly visits
66.7K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2025
Aqua Voice Blog · Jul 2026
Official announcement that Aqua Voice became ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified after a third-party audit; it references prior SOC 2 Type II compliance and says the company is hiring a Security Engineer.
Aqua Voice Blog · Jun 2026
Explains Aqua as a system-wide push-to-talk layer for AI-coding workflows, with details on Deep Context, pricing, and how it works across Cursor, Claude Code, terminal, and other apps.
9to5Mac · Apr 2026
External coverage of the iPhone launch describing Aqua Voice as a keyboard-based dictation app for iPhone and noting the single subscription covers Mac and iPhone.
Aqua Voice Blog · Apr 2026
Launch of Aqua Voice for iOS, including a new voice keyboard, Voice Edit Mode, and Avalon 1.5; the post says the app writes and edits text using voice anywhere.
Aqua Voice Blog · Oct 2025
Announces Avalon ranking #6 overall and #1 commercial model on OpenASR, with reported 6.24 WER and strong AISpeak technical-jargon performance.