Deepgram
Machine Learning · Natural Language Processing
$201.9Mtotal raised · 4 rounds on record
39open roles
$240kmedian advertised pay
$130Mlatest round · Series C · Jan 2026 · 9 mo ago
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.
How Deepgram hires
Truth index
B 78/100
Median time to fill
78 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
67%
Reposted roles
0%
Deepgram scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 12 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 67% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 78 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
Funding and backers
Total raised
$201.9M
4 rounds on record
Latest round
$130M
Series C · Jan 2026 · 9 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
62
+13 posted in 30 days
Backers
7
Y Combinator, Wing Venture Capital
The money's age
Fresh money
9 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
43/100
hiring for its size, fresh money, rising traction
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 20
First role in India Customer Success Engineer ( India)
Aug 5
First role in Australia Senior Pre-Sales Solutions Engineer (Australia)
Jan 13
Raised a round Series C $130M
May 4, 2023
On the Hacker News front page Augmenting LLMs Beyond Basic Text Completion and Transformation · 101 points
Nov 22, 2022
Raised a round Venture round $30M · SEC Form D
Oct 22, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $17.4M · SEC Form D
Dec 16, 2020
Raised a round Venture round $24.5M · SEC Form D
Jan 18, 2017
On the Hacker News front page Show HN: Kur by Deepgram (YC S16) – Deep Learning Made Easy · 103 points
Sep 22, 2016
On the Hacker News front page How to Get a Job in Deep Learning · 316 points
Feb 24, 2016
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Import Docker in Python and Run Anything
Jan 2016
Went through Y Combinator
2015
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Scott StephensonExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Adam SypniewskiExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Y Combinator 
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Jobs
$174k – $212k per year · In office · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · San Francisco
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$115k – $148k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 3+ years exp
Python
SQL
Claude Code
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Management
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$185k – $230k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time
Python
JavaScript
Node JS
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Function Calling
LLM
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$200k – $275k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time
SQL
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$216k – $338k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · San Francisco · New York
Python
Fine-tuning
PyTorch
Text-to-Speech
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Twilio
DevOps
Cloudflare
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$178k – $268k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · San Francisco · New York
Python
Fine-tuning
PyTorch
Text-to-Speech
Deepgram
Vapi
Voice Agents
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
Cloudflare
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Remote (Australia) · Full-Time · Melbourne
Quantization
Multimodal AI
Speech Recognition
Mamba
Transformers
Perplexity
Whisper
Phi
Self-Supervised Learning
Synthetic Data
Triton
DPO
Text-to-Speech
TPU
Deepgram
Vapi
arXiv
Voice Agents
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
Cloudflare
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Remote (United Kingdom) · Full-Time · London
Quantization
Multimodal AI
Speech Recognition
Mamba
Transformers
Perplexity
Whisper
Phi
Self-Supervised Learning
Synthetic Data
Triton
DPO
Text-to-Speech
TPU
Deepgram
Vapi
arXiv
Voice Agents
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
Cloudflare
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Remote (Netherlands) · Full-Time
Quantization
Multimodal AI
Speech Recognition
Mamba
Transformers
Perplexity
Whisper
Phi
Self-Supervised Learning
Synthetic Data
Triton
DPO
Text-to-Speech
TPU
Deepgram
Vapi
arXiv
Voice Agents
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
Cloudflare
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$200k – $268k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time
Text-to-Speech
Deepgram
Vapi
Voice Agents
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
Cloudflare
Windows
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$185k – $240k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time
Python
SQL
LookML
Trino
AI/ML
Model Context Protocol
dbt
AI Agents
Text-to-Speech
Deepgram
Vapi
Voice Agents
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
Cloudflare
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$115k – $143k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time
Text-to-Speech
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Vapi
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$240k
Typical range
$100k – $380k
Open positions
45
38
Jobs
Junior
5.3%
Middle
18.4%
Senior
47.4%
Staff
23.7%
Architect
5.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 2 | $156k | $100k – $212k |
| Middle | 7 | $148k | $111k – $220k |
| Senior | 18 | $245k | $206k – $380k |
| Staff | 9 | $250k | $190k – $338k |
| Architect | 2 | $318k | $275k – $361k |
Highest paying role
Strategic Account Executive (New York City)
$380k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Deepgram
By role, level and city, against the market · 45 jobs with pay
Visa sponsorship
0
H-1B filings in 12 months
1
Green card filings
$128k
Median offered salary
In the register as Deepgram, Inc., San Francisco, CA (+1 more)
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
74/100
Growing
Open positions
62
15 opened / 37 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
78 days
faster than 15% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+161%
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% ▲
AI/ML
15%
Leadership
8%
Marketing
8% ▲
Customer Success
6% ▼
Solutions
6% ▼
Actively hiring for Sales (+6 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added NVIDIA NeMo to stack
Nov 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack
Oct 2026
Added Google Ads to stack
Oct 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack
Oct 2026
Added OpenAI to stack
Oct 2026
Added n8n to stack
Oct 2026
Added Cursor to stack
Oct 2026
Added Azure Data Factory to stack
Oct 2026
Added Fine-tuning to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Melbourne
Oct 2026
Added Windows to stack
Oct 2026
People
Scott Stephenson
Executive Officer, Director
Adam Sypniewski
Executive Officer, Director
Zach DeWitt
Director
Dave Wilner
Director
Elizabeth de Saint-Aignan
Director
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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
158
Postings analysed
136
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
Python38%
TypeScript18%
Rust16%
JavaScript16%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch4%
Transformers3%
Triton3%
React.js3%
Databases
PostgreSQL1%
Trino1%
DynamoDB1%
MySQL1%
Cloud & platforms
Cloudflare100%
Twilio100%
Vapi100%
AWS21%
AI & ML
LLM12%
Mamba3%
Phi3%
Whisper3%
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158 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
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Shared investors
Ludlow VenturesVia a fund
Wing Venture CapitalVia a fund
CompoundVia a fund
Pegasus Tech VenturesVia a fund
Madrona Venture GroupVia a fund
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News
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Whisper API: Self-Hostable Speech to Text Transcription
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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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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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Voice AI Deepgram Hits $1.3B Unicorn Status with $130M Funding
CEO Scott Stephenson revealed the company achieved cash-flow positive status last year and didn
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Deepgram Acquires OfOne to Bring Voice AI to Drive-Thru Restaurants
Deepgram today revealed it has acquired OfOne, provider of a platform that applies AI to retailers that provide drive-thru services.
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Deepgram: $130 Million Series C At $1.3 Billion Valuation Raised And OfOne Acquisition
Deepgram announced it raised $130 million in Series C funding at a $1.3 billion valuation to accelerate development of its real-time voice AI API platform and support new product and ecosystem initiatives, including an acquisition, expanded intellectual p
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Real-time voice AI unicorn Deepgram raises $130M to streamline human-to-machine interactions
Real-time voice AI unicorn Deepgram raises $130M to streamline human-to-machine interactions - SiliconANGLE
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Deepgram raises $130M at $1.3B valuation and buys a YC AI startup
Deepgram is raising its Series C round at a $1.3 billion valuation.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
6
Hiring now
6
Countries
2
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
11 open roles 12 posted in 90 days 55% engineering 73% remote 50-200 est. staff $270k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, Solutions
548 Market St Suite 25104, San Francisco, CA, 94104-5401, US
New York
United States
Remote hub
5 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 80% remote 10-50 est. staff $285k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Solutions, Sales
Ann Arbor
United States
Remote hub
3 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 100% remote 10-50 est. staff $287k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, Leadership
Washington
United States
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 33% remote 1-10 est. staff $280k Avg Salary
hires for Solutions, Sales
Melbourne
Australia
Engineering / R&D
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 50% remote 1-10 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Solutions
Seattle
United States
Sales office
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $230k Avg Salary
hires for Sales