Wispr Flow, the AI dictation startup founded to replace typing with speech, has raised $280 million in a Series B round that values the company at $2 billion, up sharply from the roughly $700 million valuation it carried after a Series A extension just nine months ago. The round was led by Menlo Ventures, with existing backers Notable Capital, NEA, Neo Ventures, 8VC and MVP Ventures doubling down alongside a wave of new investors including Acrew, Forerunner, Goodwater and Peak XV.
The raise brings Wispr's total funding to $361 million and comes as the company says it has posted four consecutive quarters of revenue growth above 150%, with its dictation tool now used across more than 125,000 companies. According to TechCrunch's report on the round, the company is positioning the fresh capital as fuel to move well beyond its original speech-to-text product.
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That expansion includes Canto, a newly launched speech-recognition model the company says cuts error rates from roughly 30% to under 10%, addressing a complaint that has dogged earlier versions of the product. Wispr has also released an Android app, is building a meeting note-taker to compete with tools like Granola and Fireflies, and has stood up a dedicated research group, Wispr Interface Labs, led by Ariya Rastrow, a former Amazon Alexa executive, to explore new forms of human-computer interaction beyond the keyboard and touchscreen.
The company plans to use part of the new funding to expand into international markets including India and the UK, and to pursue hardware partnerships such as the Oasis smart ring, extending its bet that voice will become a primary interface layer rather than a niche accessibility feature.
The round lands amid a broader surge of venture capital into AI-native productivity and interface startups, with investors racing to back the tools they expect to sit between users and increasingly capable AI models. Wispr now competes with a growing field of rivals, including Willow, Monologue, Aqua and Superwhisper, all chasing the same thesis that voice control is becoming a default way people interact with software — a crowded field that puts pressure on Wispr to convert its funding lead into a durable product advantage.