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Otter.ai

AI-powered transcription and meeting notes platform for Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet
AI 📍 Mountain View, CA Founded 2016
Current Valuation
$500M
as of 2021-Q1
PRIVATE

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.
Has Otter.ai filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Otter.ai.
Who are Otter.ai's investors?
Otter.ai's investors include Spectrum Equity, Horizons Ventures, GGV Capital, Draper Associates, Slow Ventures.
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.
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.

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 6mo ago
no imminent plansTotal raised $70M

Latest Funding Round

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Series B$50MFeb 2021Spectrum 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 2026-08-19. Re-checked weekly.

Talent Signal

Hiring trend
Hiring steady
27% of roles posted in last 30d
Open roles
33
via greenhouse
Product-build share
61%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
product-led hiring — 61% of open roles build product; the rest are go-to-market and G&A.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by month33Aug '26
Open roles by function
Open roles by functionEngineering15Sales & GTM9Data & ML4Marketing3Research1Ops & People1
product-building   go-to-market / G&A
Machine Learning EngineerSenior Applied Scientist, SpeechSenior Data EngineerSenior Machine Learning EngineerSenior Production EngineerSenior Software Engineer, AI Agent & LLM
Counted from Otter.ai's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.

Founders & Key People

Sam LiangYun Fu

Investors

Spectrum Equity · Horizons Ventures · GGV Capital · Draper Associates · Slow Ventures

Products

  • Otter Meeting Notes
  • Otter AI Chat
  • Otter for Sales
  • Otter Pilot

Competitors

Fireflies.ai · Granola · Read AI · Zoom AI Companion · Microsoft Copilot
AITranscriptionProductivitySaaS
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.