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Funding and backers

Total raised
$201.9M
4 rounds on record
Latest round
$130M
Series C · Jan 2026 · 8 mo ago
Team
501-1000
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
84
+10 posted in 30 days
Backers
5
Y Combinator, Compound
The money's age
Fresh money
8 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
25/100
hiring for its size, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.29%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
89 public repositories
Launched on Hacker News
142 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series C Jan 2026 $130M — money.usnews.com
Venture round Nov 2022 $30M — SEC Form D
Venture round Oct 2021 $17.4M — SEC Form D
Venture round Dec 2020 $24.5M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Deepgram, Inc. sec
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Scott StephensonExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Adam SypniewskiExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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How Deepgram hires

Truth index
A 92/100
Median time to fill
104 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
12%
Reposted roles
0%

Deepgram scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 25 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 12% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 104 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Deepgram is an AI speech platform that provides real-time and asynchronous automated speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) APIs. Built on custom deep learning models, its technology delivers fast, accurate, and cost-effective voice transcription, language understanding, and audio synthesis for developers and enterprise businesses. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company enables organizations to integrate advanced voice capabilities and intelligence directly into their applications and conversational AI workflows.

News

News techstackups.com 3 months ago
How we built a personal meeting assistant using Deepgram Tech Stackups
We built Otto, a meeting assistant that listens to any call and answers out loud when addressed by name. Here's how we used Deepgram's Nova-3 transcription and Aura voices to make it work in real time.
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Whisper API: Self-Hostable Speech to Text Transcription
Open-source, self-hosted speech-to-text API built on whisper.cpp with a Deepgram-style REST and WebSocket interface, JSON/SRT/VTT output, streaming, and API key management.
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News X (formerly Twitter) 7 months ago
Panos Stravopodis (@pstrav) on X
At @Elyos_AI We benchmarked 13 STT providers on 100 real customer calls from the trades businesses.Not synthetic lab data. Real calls with: - Background noise & multiple speakers - UK postcodes & addresses - Regional accents (England, Scotland, Ireland) -
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News Built In 8 months ago
Deepgram Raises $130M Series C Round at $1.3B Valuation Built In San Francisco
The voice AI company acquired OfOne and announced plans to open a new hub in San Francisco.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Deepgram over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
126
Postings analysed
94
Stack modernity
71/100AI adopter
Languages
Python41%
Rust21%
JavaScript21%
TypeScript21%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js4%
ONNX Runtime3%
CUDA2%
ExecuTorch2%
Databases
PostgreSQL2%
DynamoDB1%
MySQL1%
Snowflake1%
Cloud & platforms
Cloudflare100%
Twilio100%
Vapi100%
Kubernetes22%
AI & ML
LLM13%
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$240k
Typical range
$100k – $350k
Open positions
65
55 Jobs
Junior 1.8%
Middle 5.5%
Senior 56.4%
Staff 16.4%
Architect 20%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $100k $100k
Middle 3 $220k $220k
Senior 31 $240k $180k – $350k
Staff 9 $260k $190k – $307k
Architect 11 $240k $212k – $328k
Highest paying role Strategic Account Executive (Chicago & Texas) $350k
Normalized to USD per year

People

Scott Stephenson
Executive Officer, Director
Adam Sypniewski
Executive Officer, Director
Zach DeWitt
Director
Dave Wilner
Director
Elizabeth de Saint-Aignan
Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove

Growth

Hiring Momentum
69/100
Growing
Open positions
84
10 opened / 9 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
84 days
faster than 19% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
16% ▼
Backend
13% ▼
Customer Success
11%
AI/ML
10% ▲
Product
8% ▼
Solutions
8% ▲
Actively hiring for AI/ML (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Rest API to stack Sep 2026
Added VLAN to stack Sep 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack Sep 2026
Added OSPF to stack Sep 2026
Added DNS to stack Sep 2026
Added BGP to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026
Added Unix to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added OpenVINO to stack Sep 2026
Added Trino to stack Sep 2026
Added LookML to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco United States
HQ
11 open roles 9 posted in 90 days 27% engineering 55% remote 200-500 est. staff $272k Avg Salary
hires for Solutions, Backend, Leadership
548 Market St Suite 25104, San Francisco, CA, 94104-5401, US
seen since Mar 2026 company site, job postings
New York United States
Engineering / R&D
4 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 25% remote 50-200 est. staff $263k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Solutions
seen since Mar 2026 job postings
Washington United States
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 33% remote 50-200 est. staff $280k Avg Salary
hires for Solutions, Sales
seen since Mar 2026 job postings

Jobs

$165k – $220k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Python
NLP
Speech Recognition
LLM
Text-to-Speech
Deepgram
Vapi
Voice Agents
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
Cloudflare
Cybersecurity
GDPR
Apply
$180k – $240k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • San Francisco
Speech Recognition
LLM
Text-to-Speech
Deepgram
Vapi
LLM Guardrails
Voice Agents
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
Cloudflare
Apply
$213k – $328k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • San Francisco • Ann Arbor
Multimodal AI
Post-training
Text-to-Speech
Deepgram
Vapi
Voice Agents
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
Cloudflare
Apply
$140k – $180k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
Text-to-Speech
Deepgram
Vapi
Voice Agents
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
Cloudflare
Apply
$155k – $245k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Python
CUDA Toolkit
Quantization
TFLite
OpenVINO
TensorFlow
PyTorch
CUDA
Text-to-Speech
Deepgram
Vapi
LiteRT
ExecuTorch
ONNX Runtime
Voice Agents
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
Cloudflare
Platform Engineering
Apply
≈ $162k – $349k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
AI Agents
Text-to-Speech
Deepgram
Vapi
Human-in-the-Loop
Voice Agents
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
Cloudflare
Management
Slack
Apply
$200k – $250k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
SQL
Time Series Forecasting
Text-to-Speech
Deepgram
Vapi
Voice Agents
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
Cloudflare
Analytics
A/B Testing
Looker
Superset
Apply
$165k – $220k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
SQL
LookML
Trino
AI/ML
dbt
AI Agents
LLM
Text-to-Speech
Deepgram
Vapi
Voice Agents
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
Cloudflare
Apply
$197k – $246k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • New York • San Francisco
NLP
Text-to-Speech
Deepgram
Vapi
Voice Agents
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
Cloudflare
Management
Slack
Apply
$150k – $220k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
Go
JavaScript
Rust
Multimodal AI
Speech Recognition
RAG
Anomaly Detection
Text-to-Speech
Deepgram
Vapi
Voice Agents
Frontend
React.js
Mobile
React Native
Twilio
DevOps
CI/CD
Cloudflare
Grafana
Apply
$150k – $250k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • San Francisco • Ann Arbor
MLFlow
Prefect
Speech Recognition
Text-to-Speech
Deepgram
Vapi
Voice Agents
Machine Learning
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
Docker
Kubernetes
Cloudflare
Apply
≈ $109k – $261k per year (Estimated) • Remote (MENA, APAC time zones hours) • Full-Time • 4+ years exp
Python
JavaScript
Rust
TypeScript
Speech Recognition
Text-to-Speech
Deepgram
Vapi
Voice Agents
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
GCP
WebRTC
WebSockets
Azure
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Cloudflare
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$201.9M
Latest round
Series C
Funding rounds
4
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount Valuation
Series C 2026 $130M $1.3B Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 $30M — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $17.4M — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2020 $24.5M — Details