Api.ai

Acquired

Build conversational experiences with natural language understanding

San Francisco, United States · Founded 2014 · $3.0M raised

Employees
1–10
Founded
2014
Business Model
B2B
Website
api.ai
Total Funding
$3.0M
Last Round
$3.0M Series AAug 2015
Rounds
1
Acquired by
GoogleSep 2016

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About

Api.ai was a natural language processing and understanding platform that enabled developers to build conversational interfaces for apps, bots, and IoT devices. Originally founded as Speaktoit in 2010 by Ilya Gelfenbeyn, Artem Goncharuk, and Pavel Sirotin, the company released its API to third-party developers in September 2014 under the Api.ai brand. The platform supported speech recognition, natural language understanding, and text-to-speech, with over 60,000 developers building on it and more than 20 million end users. Google acquired Api.ai in September 2016 and rebranded it as Dialogflow in October 2017, integrating it into Google Cloud Platform.

Summary

Api.ai is an Artificial Intelligence company based in San Francisco, United States, founded in 2014. It has raised $3.0M in total across 1 round, most recently a $3.0M Series A round in Aug 2015. Investors include Google, SAIC Capital and Intel Capital.

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Funding & Exit History

AcquisitionSep 2016

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Funding: Series A. Amounts, valuations, and investors where available.

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