VERIFY RECORD
Deepgram
6 of 10 claims verified
6 of 9 key claims verified, 3 thin (self-reported benchmark, founding date, and headcount not confirmed via a primary source)
Claims
- [verified]
Raised $130M Series C at a $1.3B valuation, led by AVP, announced January 13, 2026
Amount and valuation confirmed by company press release and an independent outlet.
- [verified]
1,300+ organizations use Deepgram's APIs and 200,000+ developers build with Deepgram
Company-reported usage figures, consistent across two dated company posts.
- [verified]
50,000+ years of audio processed and 1+ trillion words transcribed on the platform
Company-reported cumulative usage metric, not independently auditable, but consistently stated by the company across dated posts.
- [verified]
Ended 2024 cash-flow positive with 400+ enterprise customers
Company self-disclosure; no independent financials available since Deepgram is private, but the statement is a direct, dated company claim rather than a third-party estimate.
- [verified]
3.3x annual usage growth across the past four years
Company-reported growth metric; underlying usage baseline not disclosed.
- [verified]
Acquired OfOne (AI voice platform for restaurants) alongside the Series C raise
Acquisition itself confirmed by company press release; deal terms not disclosed.
- [plausible]
OfOne achieves a 95%+ containment rate for restaurant voice orders
Self-reported metric from the acquired company, cited in Deepgram's own press release with no independent audit found.
- [thin]
Nova-3 model cuts word error rate by 54.2% (streaming) and 47.4% (batch) versus the 'next-best competitor'
Benchmark is Deepgram's own internal test against an unnamed competitor model with limited disclosed methodology; no neutral third-party benchmark corroborates the specific figures, and secondary write-ups note independent real-world WER measurements differ from Deepgram's published numbers.
- [thin]
Founded in 2015 by Scott Stephenson (and co-founders)
Deepgram's own leadership and about pages (deepgram.com/company/leadership) do not state a founding year; the 2015 date comes from secondary aggregator listings only, not a company-published primary source I could fetch directly.
- [thin]
Employee headcount is in the low hundreds (estimates range ~101-250 to 337 as of mid-2026)
Third-party data aggregators disagree with each other by more than 3x; Deepgram does not publish an official headcount.
Gaps
- No confirmed total funding-to-date figure from a primary source; aggregator coverage cites 'over $215M' but this was not corroborated via a fetched primary source.
- No current (2025/2026) ARR or revenue figure disclosed by the company; a third-party estimator (Latka) cites $21.8M ARR for 2024, but this is a single-source estimate, not a company disclosure, and was not independently corroborated.
- Exact founding date/month and full founder list not found on Deepgram's own site pages checked (leadership page omits company history).