# Deepgram

> Deepgram builds foundational voice AI - speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and full voice-agent APIs - used by more than 1,300 enterprises including NASA, Spotify, Twilio and Citibank to give machines the ability to listen, understand, and respond in real time.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Scott Stephenson (Co-founder & CEO), Adam Sypniewski (Co-founder & CTO), Noah Shutty (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~210 employees
- **Products:** Nova-3, Aura-2, Flux, Voice Agent API, Saga
- **Notable:** Reached unicorn status with a $1.3B valuation in January 2026., Raised $245M+ in total funding across Seed through Series C., Serves 1,300+ enterprise customers including NASA, Spotify and Twilio.

## Products & services

- **Nova-3** — Real-time speech-to-text model marketed as the most accurate STT engine available, including a Nova-3 Medical variant.
- **Aura-2** — Low-latency, professional text-to-speech model designed for production voice agents.
- **Flux** — Conversation model engineered to handle interruptions and turn-taking naturally in voice agents.
- **Voice Agent API** — Unified voice-to-voice API combining STT, LLM reasoning and TTS for building conversational agents.
- **Saga** — Speech understanding and audio intelligence layer for summarization, intent and sentiment.

## Achievements

- Reached unicorn status with a $1.3B valuation in January 2026.
- Raised $245M+ in total funding across Seed through Series C.
- Serves 1,300+ enterprise customers including NASA, Spotify and Twilio.
- Released Nova-3, marketed as the most accurate real-time STT model available.
- Shipped Flux, the first voice-agent model specifically designed to handle interruptions.
- Y Combinator alum (Winter 2016 batch).

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Closed $130M Series C at a $1.3B valuation, led by AVP, with strategic participation from Twilio, ServiceNow, SAP and Citi Ventures.
- **2026-01** — Announced acquisition of OfOne to extend voice-agent capabilities into drive-thru and physical-world deployments.
- **2025-03** — Launched Nova-3 Medical via AWS Bedrock partnership for healthcare voice agents.
- **2024-09** — Released the Voice Agent API with a public drive-thru demo.

## Links

- Website: https://deepgram.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepgram
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/DeepgramAPI
- GitHub: https://github.com/deepgram
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Deepgram
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deepgram/

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