Yap, Inc.
AcquiredCharlotte, United States · Founded 2006 · $11.0M raised
- Total Funding
- $11.0M
- Last Round
- $3.0M Series BMar 2010
- Rounds
- 3
- Acquired by
- AmazonSep 2011
About
Yap Speech Cloud was a multimodal speech recognition system developed by American technology company Yap Inc. It offered a fully cloud-based speech-to-text transcription platform used by customers such as Microsoft. The company was a contestant at the inaugural TechCrunch40 conference and was acquired by Amazon in September 2011 to help develop products such as Alexa Voice Service, Echo, and Fire TV.
Summary
Yap, Inc. is an Artificial Intelligence company based in Charlotte, United States, founded in 2006. It has raised $11.0M in total across 3 rounds, most recently a $3.0M Series B round in Mar 2010. Investors include Amazon, SunBridge Partners and Harbert Management.
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