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Unisound

101-124, 1/F, Building N6, BBMG Intelligent Manufacturing Workshop, No. 27 Jiancaicheng Middle Road, Beijing, Haidian District, Not provided, China

Overview

Unisound is a Beijing, China–based provider of artificial intelligence solutions focused on intelligent voice and speech processing technologies. The company leverages a cloud computing platform and mobile internet technologies to deliver middleware and cloud platforms for speech recognition. Its services target Internet of Things devices across home appliances, automobiles, healthcare and education. Unisound plans to deploy newly raised capital toward research and development and business expansion. The company raised US$100M in a Series C round, strengthening its financial position for growth and product development. Unisound was founded in 2012. Unisound develops voice-recognition and processing middleware and platform products. Its platforms have been deployed in mobile Internet, smart appliances, wearables, on-car navigation, healthcare, education and call centers. The company provides professional voice-recognition services to both enterprise and consumer users. In December 2014 Qualcomm announced an investment in Unisound; the amount was undisclosed. That investment was expected to be funded through Qualcomm’s $150M strategic Chinaventure fund. The deal formed part of Qualcomm’s broader commitment to invest an aggregate $40M into four Chinese companies and the China Walden Venture Investments, L.P. fund.

Total raised
$100M
Funding rounds
2
Latest round
Series C
Latest activity
May 2018

Industries

  • Cloud Data Services
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Speech Recognition
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Recent funding

  1. Series C

    May 2018

    $100M

Team

  • Huang Wei

    Founder & CEO

  • Zhao Yiyang

    Co-founder

  • Jiaen Liang

    Founder&Chairman

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