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Otter.ai

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Otter.ai

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fresh · evidence 4d ago 4 sources no confidence data
74.6/100
Venture signal
scored above 86% of unstaged peers stage unparsed
Outlook Stable
Why this score? ↓

What we have established three decisions, kept apart

  1. 1 Identity verified Not recorded

    No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.

  2. 2 Evidence sufficient to publish Not yet

    The inclusion bar: two or more independent sourced evidence families. This profile is reachable but not in the ranked index. It is a statement about how much evidence we hold, and about nothing else.

  3. 3 Fit for a seed/Series-A sourcing buyer Not established

    We have not established fit. That is not a soft no and not a soft yes — it is unknown, and it is never counted as a qualified prospect.

Funding
$320M
2026-10-20
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
not scored
momentum / 100
Hiring
no board
eng openings
Commercial
not checked
homepage

Traction

Current round

Opportunity & risk

↗ Strongest signal: funding_magnitude (24% of the score).

↓ Scored on 2 of 4 components — adoption, developer had no computable metric.

2 independent sources 0 promoted signals inspect the evidence →

Evaluation

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Platform score derived
75/100
Founder self-assessment claimed
4/100
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What people are saying 1 signal from 0 voices ▾
Technology No signals collected yet ▾
No technology data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.
Team & hiring No signals collected yet ▾
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Market & funding stage 1 of 3 signals present ▾
Funding stage
not provided
Lifecycle stage
not provided
Latest round stage
unknown observed
Timeline 1 events ▾
  1. 2026-10-20 unknown · $320M

Evidence & scoring

Why this score? none_required ▾

VentureSignalScore 74.6/100 for otterai, composed from 2 of 4 components (index v0 cross-signal), discounted ×0.85 for 50% signal coverage

ComponentWeightNormalizedContribution
funding_recency 0.2 0.9897 0.1979
funding_magnitude 0.3 0.8021 0.2406

Evidence this score rests on

Narrative vs. reality No SEC filing found for this round

Reported narrative · Tier 2
$320M unknown
announced 2026-10-20 · 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.

Financing events four different events, four different dates

A first sale, a filing, an amendment and a public announcement are not the same event, and one date may not stand in for another. Where the latest financing date cannot be established from what we hold, this says unknown rather than substituting a date we do have.

Latest established financing date
2026-10-20
Money moved on or after
2026-10-20
Total reported by
not established
Basis
reported round

A reported round dated 2026-10-20 by its own source.

Raw observations 14 records ▾
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
common_name Otter.ai observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-21 normalized 0.90
funding.round.amount_usd 320000000 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-20 normalized 0.90
funding.round.amount_usd 320000000 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-23 normalized 0.50
funding.round.announced_on 2026-10-20 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-20 normalized 0.90
funding.round.lead_investors [] observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-20 normalized 0.90
funding.round.source_url https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/20/otter-ai-raises-320m-in-funding-for-its-ai-meeting-assistant/ observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-20 normalized 0.90
funding.round.stage unknown observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-20 normalized 0.90
metric.venture.funding_amount_usd 320000000 derived calc 2026-10-21 derived 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 1.1759 derived calc 2026-10-21 superseded 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 3.7603 derived calc 2026-10-23 derived 0.90
score.venture_signal 74.8 derived calc 2026-10-21 superseded 0.60
score.venture_signal 74.6 derived calc 2026-10-23 derived 0.34
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M5MZHW6Y04A3S2R717PSNPDW", "signals": [{"quote": "plus a couple of deals that caught our attention, including a surprising $320 million payday for AI note-taking startu observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-23 promoted 0.50
source.document.reference {"kind": "podcast", "title": "The PHP Armageddon reminds us that the internet is held together by glue and dreams — otterai", "source_id": "01M5MZ037PH4H8FW2M7ZWNGYEN-m-4b6f6a4765029bcb", "extract_ref observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-23 normalized 0.95