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Willow

The voice interface replacing your keyboard

willowvoice.com
HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA
1-10
Consumer

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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Overview

Willow Care, Inc. (Willow Voice) is an AI speech-to-text and writing assistant that replaces typing with voice across Mac, Windows, and iPhone, adding context-aware formatting, style matching, and enterprise privacy controls.

Primary product

Willow Dictation / Willow Scribe

Founded

2025

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Team size

11-50

Work style

Onsite

Industry

Software Development

Sub-industry

Productivity software (AI voice dictation)

Offices

San Francisco, California, United States

Business model

freemium
subscription SaaS
enterprise sales

Funding

Stage

Seed

Total raised

$5M

Latest round

Seed · Nov 2025

People & investors

Leadership

Allan Guo

Co-founder & CEO

Lawrence Liu

Co-founder & CTO

Founders

Ian Ye

Co-founder

Investors

Alexis Ohanian
Ankur Nagpal
BoxGroup
Burst Capital
Daniel Reid Cahn
Dharmesh Shah
Geoff Donaker
Goodwater Capital
JJ Fliegelman
John Andrew Entwistle
Kaz Nejatian
Liquid 2 Ventures
Max Mullen
Mercedes Bent
Steven Zhou
Tomer London
Y Combinator

Work & culture

Early-stage, mission-driven team focused on speed, ownership, and user-centric product design; public hiring is on-site in San Francisco and the company frames its mission as building a voice operating system.

Work style

Onsite

Compensation

Public job postings show six-figure salary bands: Growth & Content Lead $130k-$170k, Product Designer $140k-$200k, ML Engineer $150k-$250k, and Founding Account Executive $200k-$300k plus equity.

Product & market

Pricing

Freemium with paid Pro and Business subscriptions plus custom Enterprise pricing.

Differentiators

  • —context-aware formatting
  • —auto-learning dictionary
  • —style matching over time
  • —100+ supported languages
  • —whisper/background-noise mode
  • —offline mode
  • —cross-device support (Mac, Windows, iPhone)
  • —low-latency transcription (claimed as fast as 200ms)
  • —SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance
  • —zero data retention

Technology

HubSpot
Webflow
Shopify
GitHub
Canva
LinkedIn
Reddit
Teachable
Meta Llama models
end-to-end encryption
zero data retention

Customers

100,000+ professionals
executives, founders, and managers
developers
enterprise teams
Uber
Heidi Health
Zego
HubSpot
Reddit
Gusto
Yelp
Instacart
Canva
Webflow

Competitors

Wispr Flow
Monologue
Aqua
Talktastic
Superwhisper
Betterdictation

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Estimated at about $1.6M-$12.8M annually (StartupHub point estimate: $2.8M; 64% confidence).

Estimated monthly visits

180.9K

Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026

support@seewillow.com

Latest news

Last week Willow Voice 2.0 blew up on the App Store as the best dictation tool on mobile.

LinkedIn (Lawrence Liu) · Jun 2026

Follow-up product traction post describing strong App Store momentum for Willow Voice 2.0.

Today, we're launching a new brand and website

LinkedIn (Willow) · Jun 2026

Company launch post for a new brand and website, claiming 100,000+ users and highlighting enterprise adoption and a distributed workforce.

Today we’re launching Willow iOS 2.0. A complete voice writing system for iPhone.

LinkedIn (Lawrence Liu) · Jun 2026

Launch post for Willow iOS 2.0 and the Scribe feature, emphasizing voice writing and tone-aware drafting on iPhone.

Willow's voice keyboard lets you type across all your iOS apps — and actually edit what you said

TechCrunch · Nov 2025

TechCrunch covered Willow’s iOS expansion, noted enterprise customers such as Uber, Heidi Health, and Zego, and reported the company’s then-public funding/investor list and competitor set.

Willow raises $4.2M to revolutionize voice-first interfaces

LinkedIn (Allan Guo) · Jul 2025

Founder announcement of Willow’s $4.2M seed round led by BoxGroup with participation from Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, Burst Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures, and multiple angel investors.

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