Audio Analytic develops advanced, edge-based AI sound recognition that can be embedded into consumer devices to help them understand and react to contextual information provided by sounds. The company’s core platform comprises Alexandria™, a large commercial audio dataset with millions of taxonomically organised files and full data provenance, and AuditoryNET™, a highly-optimized deep neural network that models ideophonic features of sounds. Led by founder and CEO Dr Chris Mitchell, Audio Analytic is Cambridge, UK-based and also has offices in San Francisco. It has licensed its technology to major global brands including Hive, Iliad and Sengled. Strategic partners include Arm, Intel, Knowles, Ambarella, Ambiq, Vesper and Frontier. The company intends to use recent funding to invest in core technology and IP and to further extend the number of sounds and scenes its customers’ products can recognise. Audio Analytic develops ai3™, an artificial audio intelligence platform that enables devices to recognise significant sounds and take automated action. The company works with smart home OEMs and chip companies; a range of consumer devices containing ai3™ are already on the market and more were slated to launch in 2017. Founded in 2008, Audio Analytic is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with an office in San Jose, CA. The business has commercial traction in the rapidly growing smart home market and plans to scale to meet OEM demand. The Series A funding will be used to double the team to 50 employees within 12 months and to introduce new sound profiles and features to the ai3™ platform. Audio Analytic positions its technology to enable applications such as recognising smoke and CO alarms, breaking glass, and a baby’s cry for smarter home responses.

Total raised

$18M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Jun 2019