AI-powered transcription and meeting notes platform for Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet
Otter.ai was an early leader in automated meeting transcription, joining calls as a bot to take notes and surface action items. Faces intense competition from Fireflies, Granola, and built-in features from Zoom and Microsoft Teams, but maintains a strong base of 1M+ daily users across SMB and enterprise.
AI📍 Mountain View, CAFounded 2016
Current Valuation
$500M
as of 2021-Q1
PRIVATE
QL Price
$500M
0% vs last round
QuantLogix's current estimate for Otter.ai, published 2026-10-07 — in line with the last disclosed round of $500M (2021-Q1).
Confidence
low
Basis
round anchored
What backs this price
Last disclosed round
$500M
2021-Q1
weight 0.02
How this price has held up
No round has priced for Otter.ai since QuantLogix began publishing a price for it, so there is nothing to grade yet. The claim above is on the record from 2026-10-07 and will be graded against the next priced round. See the full accuracy record →
Which publicly-traded funds already hold it, what $10,000 buys, and whether any route is open to you.
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IPO Outlookprivate
Is Otter.ai going public?
No. Otter.ai has no imminent IPO plans on record. It is still private.
What is Otter.ai's valuation in 2026?
Otter.ai is valued at $500M as of 2021-Q1, set by its Series B ($50M, Feb 2021). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Otter.ai has raised $70M in total, most recently a Series B of $50M in Feb 2021.
Is Otter.ai publicly traded — can you buy Otter.ai stock?
No. Otter.ai is a private company — its shares are not listed on any exchange and there is no ticker. The routes to exposure are pre-IPO secondary marketplaces and funds (accredited investors), employee tender offers when the company runs one, and public companies with read-through exposure. QuantLogix maps every route it can verify for Otter.ai on its Pre-IPO Access Desk.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Company Profile
CEO
Sam Liang
Founded
2016
HQ
Mountain View, CA
Employees
~100
Total Raised
$70M
Last Round
Series B — $50M (Feb 2021) · Lead: Spectrum Equity
IPO Status
no imminent plans
Fundraising Status
Series B · $50M · 5y 8mo ago
no imminent plansTotal raised $70M
Latest Funding Round
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Series B
$50M
Feb 2021
Spectrum Equity
—
Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML
No verified Hugging Face organization found for Otter.ai — no attributable open-model footprint. Closed-weights labs are common; this is a distribution signal, not a capability judgment.
Checked huggingface.co as of 2026-10-04. Re-checked weekly.
Talent Signal
Hiring trend
▼ Hiring downtrend
-39% vs 2026-08
Open roles
20
via greenhouse
Product-build share
55%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
tightening
product-led hiring — 55% of open roles build product; the rest are go-to-market and G&A.
Open roles trending down; no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by function
■ product-building ■ go-to-market / G&A
Machine Learning EngineerProduction EngineerSenior Applied Scientist, SpeechSenior Data EngineerSenior Machine Learning EngineerSenior Software Engineer, AI Agent & LLM
Counted from Otter.ai's live job board as of 2026-09-14; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
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Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2021-Q1. Refreshed quarterly.