Josh.ai, founded in March 2015 and headquartered in Denver with offices in L.A., sells a premium voice-controlled home automation solution. The product ship includes a Mac mini and iPad running software that auto-discovers devices from over 50 manufacturers; speech-to-text runs in the cloud while the Mac mini handles natural language processing. Users interact with the system via the voice assistant “Josh,” which supports natural language, scenes, compound commands, and deep-linking to streaming content. The current offering is sold by professional integrators at roughly $10,000 and up; the company has sold more than 50 and fewer than 100 installations to date. The team is about 15 people and expects to grow to 25. Josh.ai plans to release a dedicated far-field microphone hardware device later this year (designed for aesthetics and focused on home automation) and aims for a broader mass-market rollout in about a year to 18 months. The company recently closed $8M in new funding and has raised $11M in total.

Total raised

$11M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Jul 2017