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Otter.ai's voice-data bet gets $320M from General Catalyst's customer fund
General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund is providing the growth financing to an AI notetaking platform that says it has more than 40 million users and counts teams at over 86% of Fortune 500 companies among its customers.
Otter.ai has secured $320 million in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund, capital the AI notetaking and conversational knowledge company says will accelerate enterprise expansion, international growth, go-to-market strategy and product development. The investment comes as Otter.ai tries to move beyond transcription and become a broader knowledge layer for enterprises, capturing workplace conversations, connecting them to organizational context and turning the information into insights and actions.
The company says it has grown to more than 40 million users worldwide and that its technology is used by teams at more than 86% of Fortune 500 companies. Otter.ai also says the platform has transcribed more than 1 billion meetings and that it estimates customers have generated more than $1.5 billion in return on investment through time savings.
A major focus for the new capital will be enterprise agentic AI workflows. Otter.ai plans to use its conversational data and voice AI technology to help organizations prepare for meetings with more context, make decisions more efficiently and automate actions based on discussions after meetings have concluded. The company also plans to strengthen enterprise go-to-market capabilities and expand internationally.
Otter.ai’s platform is built around Automatic Speech Recognition and speaker identification capabilities, which it positions as the foundation for what it describes as a voice system of record for enterprises, allowing information contained in conversations to become searchable and reusable organizational knowledge. It serves customers across sales, consulting, education, financial services, professional services and media.
General Catalyst made the investment through its Customer Value Fund, an investment strategy that focuses on providing capital tied to customer acquisition and growth. Pranav Singhvi, partner and co-founder of CVF at General Catalyst, said voice is one of the biggest untapped opportunities in enterprise AI and that Otter is at the forefront of it. Otter.ai CEO Sam Liang said the financing is “a powerful vote of confidence” in what the company is building and will fuel its next chapter, including enterprise agentic workflows.
“This financing from General Catalyst is a powerful vote of confidence in what we’re building at Otter, and we’re excited for the next phase of growth it will drive. This will fuel our next chapter, enabling us to build enterprise agentic workflows that bring more advanced, intelligent AI to teams everywhere and push toward a future where voice becomes the backbone of enterprise productivity.”
About the Company
Otter.ai has secured $320 million in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund to accelerate the AI notetaking and conversational knowledge company’s enterprise expansion, international growth, go-to-market strategy, and product development.
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