INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Voicera wants to be the company that eliminates the need for human note taking once and for all
Their vision is an AI-driven voice recognition system that not only takes notes, but identifies speakers and summarizes key points and
Today, the company announced it had acquired a similar startup, Wrappup, an AI-fueled note taking app that fits in nicely with that
vision.The Wrappup team is joining Voicera immediately
Terms were not disclosed.Voicera CEO Omar Tawakol certainly saw the fit
To that end, the company also announced the launch of a new mobile app
Chances are this combining of these two companies has been in the works for some time, and is just being made official today.Photo:
VoiceraWrappup CEO Rami Salman says joining forces with Voicera creates a more compelling and powerful solution for customers
It is designed to remove the task of note taking from the meeting experience
The company got a $13.5 million Series A last month from some big-time investors, including e.ventures, Battery Ventures, GGV Capital and
They also got some attention from enterprise corporate venture investors, including GV (the investment firm affiliated with Google),
Microsoft Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Workday Ventures
The level of these investors shows the company is attacking a real pain point for meeting attendees.Wrappup is based in Dubai and was
It has raised $800,000 to date
It works with existing meeting tools, including GoToMeeting from Citrix, WebEx from Cisco, UberConference and Zoom.
