# Verbit.ai

> Verbit provides AI transcription, captions and speech-derived insights for law, media, education and enterprise customers. Its Captivate engine combines domain-specific speech recognition with services that offer human review when needed.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Tom Livne (Co-founder and former CEO), Eric Shellef (Co-founder and former CTO), Kobi Ben Tzvi (Co-founder and former VP of Engineering)
- **Products:** Captivate, Legal Visor, Legal Capture, Captivate Post / Post Plus, Campus Complete
- **Notable:** Acquired VITAC in May 2021., Reached a US$2 billion funding valuation in November 2021., Won AI Breakthrough’s Best Speech to Text Solution award in 2022.

## Products & services

- **Captivate** — Proprietary ASR with domain models and custom vocabulary for live and recorded speech.
- **Legal Visor** — Live deposition analysis, document-linked inconsistency detection, search and summaries for litigators.
- **Legal Capture** — Recording, live editing, speaker labeling and human-reviewed legal finals.
- **Captivate Post / Post Plus** — Media captioning with editing and caption placement; Plus adds professional human quality control.
- **Campus Complete** — Institution-wide media accessibility bundle for colleges and universities.
- **Verbit Dub** — Dubbing and localization for media and content creators.
- **Accessibility and transcription services** — Live and recorded captions, transcripts, translation, audio description and note taking.

## Achievements

- Acquired VITAC in May 2021.
- Reached a US$2 billion funding valuation in November 2021.
- Won AI Breakthrough’s Best Speech to Text Solution award in 2022.
- Captivate recognized in Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech in 2024.
- Launched Legal Visor at Legalweek in March 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Announced Captivate Post Plus with human review for media captions.
- **2026-08** — Newsletter highlighted Legal Capture offline mode and Collections.
- **2026-09** — Newsletter reported live translation expansion to 117 languages and Projects.
- **2026-07** — CTech published Livne’s retrospective on the strategy reversal; financial and board claims are attributed, not audited facts.

## Links

- Website: https://verbit.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/verbit-ai/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Verbit_
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Verbitai
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/verbit.ai/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/verbit.inc/

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Last updated: 2026-10-08