# AssemblyAI: robot AI company

Canonical ID: `9598e15b-b666-4702-8442-5e86b3c2ed0d`

## Key facts

- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, CA, USA
- **Founded:** 2017
- **Status:** private
- **Type:** brain
- **CEO & Founder:** [Dylan Fox](/people/dylan-fox.md) (former Cisco ML engineer, GWU grad)
- **Founded:** 2017, [Y Combinator](/investors/y-combinator.md) S17 batch
- **HQ:** San Francisco / New York
- **Total Funding:** [~$115M (Series A $28M + Series B $30M + Series C $50M)](/investors.md) ([see investors](/investors.md))
- **Key Investors:** [Accel](/investors/accel.md) (led A+C), [Insight Partners](/investors/insight-partners.md) (led B), [Y Combinator](/investors/y-combinator.md), [Nat Friedman](/investors/nat-friedman.md), [Daniel Gross](/investors/daniel-gross.md)
- **Products:** Pre-recorded & real-time speech-to-text APIs, speech understanding, voice agent API, guardrails, LLM gateway
- **Languages:** 99 languages supported
- **Robotics Application:** Voice interaction for [humanoid robots](/humanoids), AI agents, and embodied AI systems

- **Slug:** assemblyai
- **Status:** private
- **Founded:** 2017
- **HQ:** San Francisco, CA, USA
- **Funding total (USD):** 115000000

## Models

_No models registered._

## Current leadership (2)

- [Dylan Fox](/people/dylan-fox.md) Founder & CEO (secondary-verified)
- [Dylan Fox](/people/dylan-fox.md) Founder & CEO (secondary-verified)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

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## Common questions

### What is AssemblyAI?

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.

### What does AssemblyAI make?

AssemblyAI has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. AssemblyAI builds robot foundation models or autonomy software.

### Is AssemblyAI publicly traded?

No. AssemblyAI is privately held and not publicly traded, per the DEPLOY registry.

### How can I invest in AssemblyAI?

AssemblyAI is a private company; its shares are not available on public markets, so retail investors cannot buy the stock today. It has raised $115M in disclosed funding.

### Where is AssemblyAI headquartered?

AssemblyAI is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, USA.

### How much funding has AssemblyAI raised?

AssemblyAI has raised approximately $115M in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.

### Who owns AssemblyAI?

AssemblyAI is privately held and venture-backed ($115M raised); ownership sits with its founders and private investors.

### Is AssemblyAI a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, AssemblyAI ranks in roughly the top 98% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was AssemblyAI founded?

AssemblyAI was founded in 2017.


## Sources (1)

1. https://www.assemblyai.com

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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