Plaud
AI-powered voice recorder and transcription hardware for professionals.
Artificial Intelligence
📍 San Francisco, CA
Founded 2021
Current Valuation
$1.0B
as of 2025-Q4
UNICORN
Plaud is an AI hardware startup that creates intelligent voice recording devices integrated with LLMs like ChatGPT. Its flagship products, the PLAUD NOTE and NotePin, provide high-quality transcription, summarization, and mind-mapping tools to help professionals capture and organize information.
Company Profile
Growth
10x annual revenue growth; profitable bootstrapped beginnings
Last Round
Series A — $5M (May 2025) · Lead: Carbide Ventures
Founders & Key People
Nathan XuCharles Liu
Investors
Carbide Ventures
Products
- PLAUD NOTE
- PLAUD NotePin
- PLAUD App
- PLAUD for Business
Competitors
Otter.ai · Limitless · Rabbit · Humane AI Pin
AI HardwareTranscriptionProductivityChatGPTVoice Recorder
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2025-Q4. Refreshed quarterly.