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STARTUPS · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Otter.ai raises $320M from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund to accelerate growth

Otter.ai announced a $320 million investment from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), a non-dilutive capital program that returns based on marketing outcomes. The company said it will use the funds for enterprise growth, go-to-market, international expansion and product innovation as it scales features like meeting assistants, pre-briefs and Live Assist; Otter previously reported crossing $100M ARR and about 40 million users to date.

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COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

PolyAI CTO and Otter CMO say voice AI hasn’t had its 'ChatGPT moment' yet

PolyAI CTO Shawn Wen and Otter CMO Alex Gay said at the HumanX conference that while full‑duplex voice models and other voice AI advances exist, key problems remain — including fast on‑device reasoning, ASR accuracy, emotive output, speaker identification, and transparency — which are preventing voice AI from reaching transformative, ChatGPT‑like adoption. They emphasized that transcription errors and lack of trust could block automation in enterprise use cases such as customer service and meeting assistants.

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