Blue Canoe is a Bellevue, WA-based provider of an AI B2B platform that helps non-native English speakers improve clarity and confidence in speaking English. The company uses a brain-based methodology, the Color Vowel® System, which the article says has improved pronunciation for more than 1 million learners globally. Blue Canoe scales this methodology with patent-pending speech recognition and machine learning to create a virtual AI Teacher that provides targeted feedback and an objective pronunciation score to track progress over time. It partners with English language training companies to improve and expand their offerings and serves multinational corporations in high tech, professional services, and enterprise software. Customers cited include EY Japan, SAP Japan and WE Education across the United States, China and Japan. The company closed a $2.5M seed round and will use the funding to scale both product and revenues, with a focus on Japan and China; total capital raised to date is $3.9M.

Total raised

$3M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Oct 2019