Founded in 2012 and based in Washington, D.C., Speek offers online and mobile tools that let users join calls via personal links and multiple connection methods (VoIP, phone ring, or mobile app). The platform provides visual indicators of who’s speaking, social profile integration, administrative controls (block/mute), messaging, file sharing with cloud services, and post-call analytics. Speek operates a freemium model with a paid Speek Pro tier at $10/month per user and a recently soft-launched "Speek for Teams" edition for businesses. The company says "hundreds of thousands" of people have been on Speek calls and that two-thirds of users primarily use native mobile apps; it currently has a 16-person team. With the new funding, Speek plans to add security controls, real-time collaboration features (document editing), slideshow sharing, and integrations with enterprise products such as Salesforce. The product competes with other modern conference-calling solutions like UberConference. Speek provides a conference call solution with a visual interface that uses personal or business links (e.g., speek.com/YourName) instead of phone numbers and PINs. The service shows who has joined, who is talking, and supports file sharing and call controls. The company runs a proprietary voice platform and launched Speek Pro, a premium version, in May. Speek raised $1.1M in bridge financing in advance of its Series A and has raised $2.6M in total to date. New investors in the bridge included Stewart Allen, Michael Chasen (via NextGen Angels), Timothy Chi and Sonny Ganguly, alongside a group of existing backers. The company intends to use the funds to continue improving its voice platform and to scale its user base. Speek provides a free and visual conference platform that uses a personal link (e.g., http://speek.com/YourName) instead of a phone number and PIN for conference calls. Users—individuals and small businesses—click the link to start or join a call from their phone, web, or mobile browser via VOIP or SMS without downloading software. The service shows who has joined, who is talking, and supports file sharing and call controls. Speek launched in beta in June and has been accepted into accelerators 500 Startups and AOL's Fishbowl Labs. It also won the Distilled Intelligence 2.0 pitch competition sponsored by Microsoft. The company is hiring and headquartered in Dulles, VA. Founders are CEO John Bracken and CTO Danny Boice. Financially, the company recently closed seed funding of $1.2M. Speek provides a SaaS "conference table" visual experience for web and mobile users that shows who is on a call and who is speaking. The product requires no downloads and includes features such as note taking, file sharing and the ability to mute certain speakers. Led by CEO John Bracken, the company targets an alternative to traditional conference calls with a visual, collaborative interface. Speek intends to use recent funding to build out its product and accelerate growth. As part of that plan it is hiring a developer, a designer and an intern. The company is based in Sterling, Virginia.

Total raised

$8M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Mar 2014