Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 16, 2026
Otter.ai is a Mountain View-based AI productivity company that pioneered the AI meeting-assistant category. Its platform records and transcribes meetings, generates summaries and action items, and increasingly connects conversational data to enterprise workflows and AI agents.
Primary product
Otter Meeting Agent and Conversational Knowledge Engine: AI-powered transcription, meeting summaries, searchable conversation intelligence, AI chat, action items, and voice-activated meeting agents.
Founded
2016
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Team size
200-300
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
AI meeting productivity, speech recognition, conversation intelligence, and enterprise workflow software
Offices
Business model
Stage
Private, growth-stage / post-Series B
Total raised
$73M
Latest round
Series B plus convertible note · Feb 2021
Latest amount
$50M
Feb 2021 · Spectrum Equity and Omega Venture Partners
Feb 2021
Jan 2020
Nov 2017 · Horizons Ventures
Sep 2016 · Draper Associates and DFJ DragonFund
Leadership
Co-Founder and CEO
Co-Founder and CTO
VP of Finance
Kenny Scannell
Chief Revenue Officer
Alex Gay
Chief Marketing Officer
VP of Product
Head of Partnerships & Alliances
Engineering Manager; speech technology lead
Director of Product Management
Director of Sales Operations & Strategy
Public signals point to a technically oriented, product-led AI company with a distributed international workforce, in-house speech and machine-learning expertise, and a strong enterprise-growth focus. Public employer-review data surfaced by Exa reports relatively favorable overall ratings, with work-life balance and career development scoring higher than compensation.
Compensation
No reliable public Otter.ai salary bands or equity details were found in the researched sources. Exa/LinkedIn-derived company data places annual revenue in the $10M-$20M range, while Otter's own 2025 announcements claim more than $100M in ARR; these figures are inconsistent and should not be treated as audited financial statements.
Pricing
Freemium and subscription SaaS. Publicly surfaced pricing includes a free plan, individual paid plans around $16.99 per user per month, a business plan around $30 per user per month, and custom enterprise pricing.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$100M-$120M annual recurring revenue, based on Otter's March and December 2025 claims of more than $100M ARR; third-party Exa data separately estimates $12.9M annual revenue, so the figure is uncertain and unaudited.
Estimated monthly visits
7M
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
A proposed federal class-action lawsuit alleged that Otter.ai recorded meeting participants without adequate consent and used recordings or voices for AI training. Otter said users are responsible for obtaining required permissions and that it is committed to privacy. The allegations create privacy, consent, litigation, and enterprise-adoption risk.
SourceThe Washington Post reported an incident in which an Otter-generated transcript reportedly included conversation occurring after a participant had left a meeting, highlighting risks around meeting-bot controls and confidential information exposure.
SourceOtter.ai · Apr 2026
Otter announced a Conversational Knowledge Engine positioning that connects conversations across teams and time, with expanded MCP connectivity, AI Chat, desktop capture, and integrations with systems such as Gmail, Google Drive, Notion, Jira, and Salesforce.
Otter.ai · Dec 2025
Otter reported exceeding $100M ARR, more than 35M users, over 1B meetings processed, and expansion from meeting transcription into a corporate knowledge base with Meeting, Sales, and SDR Agents.
Otter.ai · Oct 2025
Otter launched an enterprise suite with public API plans, MCP Server support, agentic AI Chat, CRM and document integrations, advanced admin controls, HIPAA compliance claims, and bot-free desktop recording.
TechCrunch · Oct 2025
TechCrunch covered Otter's strategic shift toward a corporate meeting knowledge base, including integrations with Jira and HubSpot and an MCP server for connecting meeting data to external AI models.
NPR · Aug 2025
NPR reported on a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that Otter's meeting notetaker recorded private conversations without adequate participant consent and used the resulting data for AI training.
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