Speechify

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 5, 2026

Overview

Speechify is a privately held voice-AI and accessibility software company founded in 2017 by brothers Cliff and Tyler Weitzman. It began as a dyslexia-focused text-to-speech reader and has expanded into a cross-platform Voice AI Productivity Assistant combining reading, dictation, AI podcasts, notes, voice agents and developer APIs. Speechify says it serves more than 60 million users; its core monetization is freemium consumer subscriptions supplemented by API usage, creator tools and enterprise/education licensing.

Primary product

Speechify Voice AI Productivity Assistant: a cross-platform text-to-speech reader for PDFs, books, documents and web pages, expanded with voice typing/dictation, AI summaries, AI podcasts, notes and voice workflows.

Founded

2017

Headquarters

Miami, Florida, United States (older company databases); current hiring materials say the company has no physical office and is 100% distributed.

Team size

Approximately 135–200; LinkedIn reports 135, while current job postings say nearly 200 globally. Older databases report 51–100 and are likely stale.

Work style

Remote

Industry

Software development / artificial intelligence

Sub-industry

Text-to-speech, voice AI, accessibility and productivity software

Business model

Freemium consumer subscription

Usage-based developer/API pricing

Enterprise and educational bulk licensing

AI Studio/creator subscriptions

B2B voice-agent and productivity-platform partnerships

Funding

Stage

Private; early-stage/seed funding is publicly documented. A 2024 $10M raise at a $100M valuation is reported by company/secondary sources, but the complete capital history is not consistently disclosed.

Total raised

$4.5M

Latest round

Funding round · Jan 2024

Latest amount

$10M

Funding round

Jan 2024

$10M

Seed VC-II

Jan 2021 · Forerunner Ventures

Seed VC

Jul 2020 · Great Oaks Venture Capital

Seed

Jan 2020

People & investors

Leadership

Cliff Weitzman

Founder & CEO

Tyler Weitzman

Co-Founder, Head of Artificial Intelligence & President

Pankaj Agarwal

Chief Financial Officer

Rohan Pavuluri

Chief Business Officer

Kai Krause

VP of Engineering & AI

Den Chernobai

Head of Growth Engineering

Isaac Setton

Head of B2B and Educational Initiatives

Luke Oliff

Head of Developer Relations

Geffen Weitzman

Creative Director

Julia Gershtun

Creative Marketing Director

Investors

Great Oaks Venture Capital

Streamlined Ventures

Work & culture

Speechify describes a high-performance, fast-shipping, asynchronous culture emphasizing extreme ownership, autonomy, rapid iteration, clarity and a 'founders, not managers' operating style. This is primarily company-reported culture information.

Work style

Remote

Compensation

Public U.S. engineering postings show $140,000–$200,000 annual base salary plus bonus and stock, depending on experience. Other compensation bands are not established from the reviewed evidence.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Bonus and stock/equity for applicable roles

Flexible schedule and asynchronous work

Autonomy and ownership

Work-from-anywhere distributed environment

Mission-driven work supporting people with dyslexia, ADHD and other learning differences

Product & market

Pricing

Freemium: free limited tier; Premium consumer subscription listed at $29/month with annual pricing offered; API usage-based pricing from about $10 per one million characters; custom enterprise and education pricing.

Differentiators

—Accessibility-led origin and product positioning
—Cross-platform reader spanning documents, books, web pages and PDFs
—1,000+ voices and 60+ languages
—Integrated text-to-speech, dictation, AI podcasts, notes and voice workflows
—Proprietary SIMBA voice models and vertically integrated voice research
—Voice cloning, dubbing and creator tooling
—Developer API with streaming, SSML and speech marks
—Large consumer distribution and usage data supporting model iteration

Technology

Proprietary SIMBA TTS, speech-recognition and speech-to-speech models

Python

PyTorch

Google Cloud Platform

Kubernetes

Next.js

Vercel

TypeScript/Node.js

React

PostgreSQL

Firebase

Docker

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Swift/iOS

Kotlin/Android

REST APIs

SSML and streaming audio

OCR/document parsing

Customers

Students and educators

People with dyslexia, ADHD, low vision and other accessibility needs

Professionals and knowledge workers

Creators and publishers

Medium

The Star Tribune

Schools, universities and government organizations

Corgi

Starbridge

Proton AI

UnifyGTM

Juicebox

Microsoft enterprise customers

Competitors

ElevenLabs

Audible

NaturalReader

Google and Apple built-in text-to-speech

Wispr

ChatGPT, Gemini and Microsoft Copilot for voice-first productivity

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Approximately $10M–$25M annual revenue/ARR; GetLatka reports $17.6M 2025 revenue, but this is a third-party estimate and not audited.

Estimated monthly visits

10.3M

Signals & risks

Other

May 2026

Founder commentary indicates rapidly rising AI inference/token costs and unusually demanding performance expectations; this is an operating-risk signal, not evidence of financial distress.

Source

Other

Private-company funding and valuation disclosures are inconsistent across databases; reported totals range from $4.5M through early rounds to substantially higher secondary estimates. Treat financing data as incomplete.

Source

Latest news

Speechify Crosses 500,000 Five-Star Ratings on the iOS App Store

Speechify · Jul 2026

Speechify reported surpassing 500,000 five-star iOS ratings and more than 60 million users across nearly 200 countries.

Speechify's Simba Ranked the Best AI Voice Model on the Artificial Analysis Leaderboard

Speechify · Jul 2026

Speechify announced that its SIMBA 3.2 text-to-speech model ranked first on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard; the claim should be treated as company-reported benchmark news.

Speechify Launches Voice Typing Dictation on iOS and Mac

Speechify · Jun 2026

Speechify launched voice-typing dictation for iOS and Mac, expanding from reading into cross-application voice productivity.

Speechify Partners with Microsoft via Microsoft AppSource

Speechify · May 2026

Speechify made its text-to-speech and AI Studio products available to business customers through Microsoft AppSource and Azure-oriented procurement.

Speechify Launches Partnership with Grammarly

Speechify · Feb 2026

Speechify announced a Grammarly integration through Superhuman Go, embedding text-to-speech into Grammarly's browser ecosystem.

Jobs and careers at Speechify

738 jobs at Speechify

Software Engineer, AI Data - San Francisco, CA, USA

Remote

Engineering

Remote

2w ago

Remote

Full-time