Useful Sensors
Voice interfaces that never leave the device.
Mountain View, United States · Founded 2022 · $5.0M raised
- Headquarters
- Mountain View, California
- Employees
- 11–50
- Founded
- 2022
- Business Model
- B2B
- Website
- usefulsensors.com
- Total Funding
- $5.0M
- Last Round
- $5.0M SeedOct 2023
- Rounds
- 1
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About
Useful Sensors (now operating as Moonshine AI) builds privacy-preserving edge AI tools for embedded devices. Founded in 2022 by Pete Warden and Manjunath Kudlur, both founding members of the original TensorFlow team, the company develops on-device speech and vision processing that runs locally without an internet connection. Their Moonshine Voice library delivers lower error rates than Whisper Large v3 with real-time streaming on low-power hardware.
Summary
Useful Sensors is an Artificial Intelligence company based in Mountain View, United States, founded in 2022. It has raised $5.0M in total across 1 round, most recently a $5.0M Seed round in Oct 2023. Investors include Andreessen Horowitz and AIX Ventures.
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Funding History
Oct 2023
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