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DeepGram

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DeepGram

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Power enterprise voice solutions with Deepgram’s Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech, and Voice Agent APIs. Real-time, accurate, and built for scale. observed

stale · evidence today 10 sources 48% confidence
26.3/100
Venture signal
scored above 13% of unstaged peers stage unparsed
Outlook Stable
Why this score? ↓
Funding
no round
2026-01-13
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
33
momentum / 100
Hiring
no board
eng openings

New infrastructure surfaces

Subdomains appearing in public certificate-transparency logs — infrastructure standing up, dated at detection. Intent labels are deterministic (token map), not guessed.

beta.sv1.deepgram.com launch prep 09-19 staging.ch2.deepgram.com launch prep 09-19 console.overflow.deepgram.com product surface 09-19 api.aws.deepgram.com product surface 09-19 api.ch2.deepgram.com product surface 09-19 api.us-west-2.deepgram.com product surface 09-19 staging.console.deepgram.com launch prep 09-19 api.sv1.deepgram.com product surface 09-19 staging.deepgram.com launch prep 09-19 api.deepgram.com product surface 09-19 api.nik-vpn-test.deepgram.com product surface 09-19 dev.nik.deepgram.com 09-19

Traction

Current round

No fundraising data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.

Opportunity & risk

↗ Strongest signal: developer (7% of the score).

6 independent sources 0 promoted signals inspect the evidence →

Evaluation

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Platform score derived
26/100
Founder self-assessment claimed
11/100
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VIX signals 29 hard signals across 1 source ▾

The platform's own early signals for this company — hard-to-fake, and where one preceded a real raise, the measured lead.

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Technology 3 of 4 signals present ▾
Primary language
Python observed
GitHub stars
823 observed
Forks
108 observed
Weekly downloads (npm)
not provided
Team & hiring No signals collected yet ▾
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Market & funding stage No signals collected yet ▾
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Evidence & scoring

Why this score? none_required ▾

VentureSignalScore 26.3/100 for deepgram, composed from 2 of 4 components (index v0 cross-signal), discounted ×0.82 for 40% signal coverage

ComponentWeightNormalizedContribution
funding_recency 0.2 0.3117 0.0623
developer 0.2 0.33 0.066

Evidence this score rests on

  • funding.round.announced_on 2026-09-19 https
  • score.developer_momentum 2026-09-21 calc
  • github.repository.pushed_at 2026-09-21 artifact ↗
  • github.repository.stars 2026-09-21 artifact ↗
  • github.repository.forks 2026-09-21 artifact ↗
  • github.repository.created_at 2026-09-21 artifact ↗

Capital timeline every dated signal, across tiers

  1. rumor Deepgram raises $130M at $1.3B valuation and buys a YC AI startup ↗
  2. reported Round reported ↗
  3. rumor Show HN: I built an AI to mock technical interview me after I shut down my YC co ↗
  4. rumor Deepgram Completes $72M Series B Round to Build the Future of Speech AI ↗
  5. rumor Launching a “Google for sound”, Deepgram raises $1.8M ↗

Narrative vs. reality No SEC filing found for this round

Reported narrative · Tier 2
Undisclosed
announced 2026-01-13 · source ↗
Filed reality · Tier 0 · SEC
No SEC Form D on record.

An evidence gap, not proof of falsity: Form D is not always required (foreign offerings, certain exemptions) or may not be filed yet.

Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk elevated · 0.47

Gray-market attention, not quality. 50+ HN mentions (peak 195 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. Risk drivers: heavy gray-market attention · no primary-source corroboration. ▲ 195 Show HN: Lemon Slice Live – Have a video call with a transformer model 2025-04-24 ↗

Raw observations 51 records ▾
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
common_name DeepGram observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 normalized 0.60
common_name Deepgram observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 normalized 0.60
community.hn.max_points 195 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 50 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33786715", "title": "Deepgram Completes $72M Series B Round to Build the Future of Speech AI", "points": 19, "created_at": "2022-11-29", "evidence_type": observed artifact ↗ 2026-01-13 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43785044", "title": "Show HN: Lemon Slice Live – Have a video call with a transformer model", "points": 195, "created_at": "2025-04-24"} observed artifact ↗ 2025-04-24 normalized 0.20
description DeepGram is a speech-to-text service used for transcribing audio content with limited context. observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 normalized 0.60
description Power enterprise voice solutions with Deepgram’s Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech, and Voice Agent APIs. Real-time, accurate, and built for scale. observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 normalized 0.70
domain deepgram.com observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 normalized 0.95
funding.round.announced_on 2026-01-13 observed https 2026-09-19 normalized 0.80
funding.round.source_url https://www.reuters.com/technology/voice-ai-startup-deepgram-raises-130-million-13-billion-valuation-2026-01-13/ observed https 2026-09-19 normalized 0.80
github.repository.archived false observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-21 normalized 0.90
github.repository.created_at 2016-11-19T02:42:09Z observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-21 normalized 0.90
github.repository.default_branch master observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-21 normalized 0.90
github.repository.description Descriptive Deep Learning observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-21 normalized 0.90
github.repository.disabled false observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-21 normalized 0.90
github.repository.forks 108 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-21 normalized 0.60
github.repository.full_name deepgram/kur observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-21 normalized 0.90
github.repository.license Apache-2.0 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-21 normalized 0.90
github.repository.open_issues 17 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-21 normalized 0.60
github.repository.primary_language Python observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-21 normalized 0.90
github.repository.pushed_at 2024-02-05T20:47:29Z observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-21 normalized 0.90
github.repository.stars 823 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-21 normalized 0.60
github.repository.topics ["deep-learning", "deep-learning-tutorial", "deep-neural-networks", "image-recognition", "machine-learning", "neural-network", "neural-networks", "speech-recognition", "speech-to-text"] observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-21 normalized 0.90
github.repository.updated_at 2026-09-06T00:53:15Z observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-21 normalized 0.90
github.repository.url https://github.com/deepgram/kur observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-21 normalized 0.90
github.repository.visibility public observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-21 normalized 0.90
metric.developer.fork_ratio 0.1312 derived calc 2026-09-21 derived 0.60
metric.developer.push_recency_days 958.3692 derived calc 2026-09-21 superseded 0.90
metric.developer.push_recency_days 958.3866 derived calc 2026-09-21 derived 0.90
metric.developer.repo_age_days 3593.1229 derived calc 2026-09-21 superseded 0.90
metric.developer.repo_age_days 3593.1403 derived calc 2026-09-21 derived 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 249.6714 derived calc 2026-09-19 superseded 0.80
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 249.6816 derived calc 2026-09-19 superseded 0.80
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 249.705 derived calc 2026-09-19 superseded 0.80
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 249.7826 derived calc 2026-09-19 superseded 0.80
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 250.7637 derived calc 2026-09-20 superseded 0.80
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 250.864 derived calc 2026-09-20 superseded 0.80
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 250.9624 derived calc 2026-09-20 superseded 0.80
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 251.0593 derived calc 2026-09-21 superseded 0.80
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 251.1559 derived calc 2026-09-21 superseded 0.80
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 251.2355 derived calc 2026-09-21 superseded 0.80
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 251.2529 derived calc 2026-09-21 derived 0.80
score.developer_momentum 33 derived calc 2026-09-21 derived 0.48
score.venture_signal 24 derived calc 2026-09-19 superseded 0.34
score.venture_signal 23.8 derived calc 2026-09-20 superseded 0.34
score.venture_signal 23.7 derived calc 2026-09-20 superseded 0.34
score.venture_signal 26.3 derived calc 2026-09-21 derived 0.29
website_url https://deepgram.com observed enrichment 2026-09-19 normalized 0.75
website_url https://deepgram.com observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 normalized 0.95
website.homepage.has_pricing_link false observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-19 normalized 0.80