The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies AssemblyAI: $108.0M raised. 1 source back the record.
Funding
$108.0M
Employees
115
Overview
AI speech-to-text company providing real-time and pre-recorded transcription, speech understanding, voice agent APIs, and audio intelligence models. Founded 2017 by Dylan Fox. Y Combinator (S17) alum. Used in voice agents, AI notetakers, medical scribes, call analytics, and humanoid robot voice interaction.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Headquarters
Founded
Status
Type
CEO & Founder
Founded
HQ
Key Investors
Products
Languages
Robotics Application
Data & sources
Press releases
1
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Partnerships
Every company AssemblyAI has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Y Combinator1× joint3 total
Most recent
Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Dylan Fox Founder & CEOsecondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Dylan Foxcofounderno longer at company
Safety record
No incidents on record for AssemblyAI.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
AssemblyAI in third-party press
Peers
144 peers across 1 segment. Every AssemblyAI competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
service(144)
113 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 831.3520919269878) · leader Bond at 1957%
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- A&K Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aescapedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Allen Control Systemsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Amazondirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Amity Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Financial state
- Total funding
- $108.0M
- Employees
- 115as of 2023-12-04(reported)
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- unknown
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
1 total · 1 just announced
Every company AssemblyAI has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
Most-frequent partners
- 1Y Combinator1× joint3 total
Funding rounds (3)
AssemblyAI’s 3 disclosed rounds, $108M in total, oldest to newest.
- Series C2023-12-04
$50M(reported)
Investors: Accel (lead), Smith Point Capital, Insight Partners, Daniel Gross, Nat Friedman, Y Combinator
- Series B2022-07-14
$30M(reported)
Investors: Insight Partners (lead), Y Combinator, Accel
- Series A2022-03-04
$28M(reported)
Investors: Accel (lead), Y Combinator, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross
Timeline
Every recorded move in AssemblyAI’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries C funding round
2023-12-04Series C raising $50000000
Funding roundSeries B funding round
2022-07-14Series B raising $30000000
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2022-03-04Series A raising $28000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 9, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (1)
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for AssemblyAI.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning AssemblyAI from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Post-Mortem: AssemblyAI API Key Exposure (Granola)
Granola disclosed a security incident where an AssemblyAI API key was exposed in their iOS TestFlight beta app from Nov 2024 to Mar 2025. 333 beta testers affected. Tenable…
AssemblyAI lands 0M to build and serve AI speech models
AssemblyAI raises 0M Series C led by Accel with participation from Keith Block, Smith Point Capital, Insight Partners, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Y Combinator. Total funding…
Announcing our 0M Series C to build superhuman Voice AI models
AssemblyAI announces 0M Series C led by Accel with participation from Keith Block, Smith Point Capital, Insight Partners, Daniel Gross, Nat Friedman, and Y Combinator. Total…
Flush with new cash, AssemblyAI looks to grow its AI-as-a-service business
AssemblyAI raises 0M Series B led by Insight Partners with Y Combinator and Accel participating. Total raised reaches 4M. Company offers speech-to-text and text analysis APIs in…
AssemblyAI snags 8M for all-in-one API to transcribe, summarize, and moderate audio
AssemblyAI raises 8M Series A led by Accel with participation from Y Combinator, John and Patrick Collison, Nat Friedman, and Daniel Gross. The funding supports development of AI…
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- REST API: /v1/companies/9598e15b-b666-4702-8442-5e86b3c2ed0d
- Revision history: /companies/assemblyai/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Category contender77/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place AssemblyAI against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
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Last computed: Oct 5, 2026