AI-powered voice recorder and transcription hardware for professionals.
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.
Artificial Intelligence📍 San Francisco, CAFounded 2021
Current Valuation
$1.0B
as of 2025-Q4
UNICORN
QL Price
$1.0B
0% vs last round
QuantLogix's current estimate for Plaud, published 2026-10-07 — in line with the last disclosed round of $1.0B (2025-Q4).
Confidence
low
Basis
round anchored
What backs this price
Last disclosed round
$1.0B
2025-Q4
weight 0.59
How this price has held up
No round has priced for Plaud 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 Plaud going public?
No. Plaud is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Plaud's valuation in 2026?
Plaud is valued at $1.0B as of 2025-Q4, set by its Series A ($5M, May 2025). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Plaud filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Plaud.
Who are Plaud's investors?
Plaud's investors include Carbide Ventures.
How much has Plaud raised?
Plaud has raised $5M in total, most recently a Series A of $5M in May 2025.
Is Plaud publicly traded — can you buy Plaud stock?
No. Plaud 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 Plaud 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.
Series A — $5M (May 2025) · Lead: Carbide Ventures
IPO Status
private
Fundraising Status
Series A · $5M · 1y 5mo ago
privateTotal raised $5M
Latest Funding Round
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Series A
$5M
May 2025
Carbide Ventures
—
Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML
Open models
0
verified organization
Downloads (30d)
0
across all models
Followers
13
Attributed to Hugging Face organization "plaud.ai" as of 2026-10-04. Open-weights footprint only — closed-model usage is not publicly measurable. Verify on Hugging Face ↗
Talent Signal
Hiring trend
▶ Hiring steady
+3% vs 2026-08
Open roles
66
via ashby
Product-build share
56%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
product-led hiring — 56% 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 function
■ product-building ■ go-to-market / G&A
Senior Backend Engineer (AI Applications) - SingaporeGlobal Talent Acquisition Program ManagerSenior Data Analyst, B2B Product - San FranciscoSRE Engineer - San FranciscoSoftware Development Engineer in TestGrowth Product Manager Lead, AI Commercialization
Counted from Plaud's live job board as of 2026-09-16; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
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.