Wispr Flow

At Wispr Flow, we're building toward a future where interacting with devices feels as seamless as talking to a friend. That vision has always gone beyond dictation. With Notetaker, we’re taking another step toward helping people do more simply by speaking. It turns conversations into a growing layer of context around your work, helping you revisit ideas, understand decisions, and move forward with greater clarity. The more context your tools have, the more useful they become.

We made Lenny’s Top 100 Companies list! "I’ve curated a list of the top 100 companies I’d most want to join if I were looking for a job. These are companies that IMHO have the highest talent density, are tackling the most ambitious problems, have the biggest upside potential—and are actively hiring." - Lenny Rachitsky

Some conversations are worth leaving the house for. This is absolutely one of them! Wispr just raised $280M at a $2B valuation. We’ve more than doubled ARR quarter-over-quarter for four straight quarters, launched our own speech model, and Wispr Advanced Interfaces Lab. The interesting part, to me, is what comes next… What does voice actually become when it moves from dictation to agents and workflows? Why build your own model? What does India look like as a growth market? And what does it take to go from an early bet on a new interface to building a multi-product company? That’s what Together and Wispr Flow are getting into on August 27, in a fireside chat with Tanay Kothari, Co-Founder & CEO at Wispr Flow and Shubham Gupta, Co-Founder of Together. If you’re building in AI, product or tech, this will be a good one. August 27th | 6:30 PM onwards | Gurgaon Seats are limited. Dropping the registration link in the comments. See you there!

Unexpected opinion: The most important job I’ve ever had, was a cold telesales job 📞 .. Let me explain 👇🏾 The most valuable thing you get from cold sales isn't money, or hard skills… it's a MUCH healthier relationship with rejection... At 16, working at Everest Home Improvements call centre in Plymouth, UK - selling double glazing, conservatories and doors, over the phone - I got into the habit of tallying up the outcome of every call on a notepad next to me... And I discovered a pattern that shifted the trajectory of my career for the next 18 years.. It's called "The law of averages". If I did 100 cold calls. Predictably, 90% of people would say no. 5% of people would tell me to "F off". BUT… 5% of people would listen. They were… persuadable. The law of averages states that over a big enough number of attempts, your results settle into a fairly predictable ratio. Which meant my success largely came down to the amount of calls I made, NOT necessarily just my skill or ability. The number of cold attempts seemed to matter more than my actual talent AND the only cost of more cold attempts was dealing with more rejection. I could never unlearn this lesson. At 18 it resulted in me cold emailing 5 vending machine companies, who equipped my school PLYMSTOCK SCHOOL with free vending machines. At 19, I cold emailed 20 camera companies, which resulted in £10k of free equipment, within 48 hours from Panasonic. The same approach got me my first investor Alistair, built my team, and won me some of my most valuable business relationships! Including..... my deal with Wispr Flow!! 18 months ago, 3 months± after they launched, I sent them a very direct, very COLD message here on LinkedIn after using their product, telling them I loved it and wanted to invest. They replied, accepted, we did the deal. And today, i'm thrilled to announced the company has just raised $280m and has been valued at $2 billion! This is not a one off.. I still spend a huge amount of time sending very direct, very cold messages to strangers - sometimes being rejected - because I deeply believe in the law of averages and because I realise something that I ALSO learnt in that call centre at 16; I have absolutely NOTHING to lose in asking. If I roll the dice 🎲 and get ignored, I lose 30 seconds. If I roll the dice 🎲 and get a reply, it could - and historically has - given me incredible opportunities. This is a risk / benefit equation I will always accept! So this is the advice I'd give to my future kids and frankly anyone at any stage of their career: Play to the law of averages, every rejection gets you one NO closer to the YES and roll the dice - because so much of the time you have absolutely nothing to lose!!! Congrats to Tanay Kothari, Sahaj Garg and the whole Wispr Flow team, it's been an honour to be your investor, brand partner and friend over the last 2 years! Have you tried Wispr Flow??

Unexpected opinion: The most important job I’ve ever had, was a cold telesales job 📞 .. Let me explain 👇🏾 The most valuable thing you get from cold sales isn't money, or hard skills… it's a MUCH healthier relationship with rejection... At 16, working at Everest Home Improvements call centre in Plymouth, UK - selling double glazing, conservatories and doors, over the phone - I got into the habit of tallying up the outcome of every call on a notepad next to me... And I discovered a pattern that shifted the trajectory of my career for the next 18 years.. It's called "The law of averages". If I did 100 cold calls. Predictably, 90% of people would say no. 5% of people would tell me to "F off". BUT… 5% of people would listen. They were… persuadable. The law of averages states that over a big enough number of attempts, your results settle into a fairly predictable ratio. Which meant my success largely came down to the amount of calls I made, NOT necessarily just my skill or ability. The number of cold attempts seemed to matter more than my actual talent AND the only cost of more cold attempts was dealing with more rejection. I could never unlearn this lesson. At 18 it resulted in me cold emailing 5 vending machine companies, who equipped my school PLYMSTOCK SCHOOL with free vending machines. At 19, I cold emailed 20 camera companies, which resulted in £10k of free equipment, within 48 hours from Panasonic. The same approach got me my first investor Alistair, built my team, and won me some of my most valuable business relationships! Including..... my deal with Wispr Flow!! 18 months ago, 3 months± after they launched, I sent them a very direct, very COLD message here on LinkedIn after using their product, telling them I loved it and wanted to invest. They replied, accepted, we did the deal. And today, i'm thrilled to announced the company has just raised $280m and has been valued at $2 billion! This is not a one off.. I still spend a huge amount of time sending very direct, very cold messages to strangers - sometimes being rejected - because I deeply believe in the law of averages and because I realise something that I ALSO learnt in that call centre at 16; I have absolutely NOTHING to lose in asking. If I roll the dice 🎲 and get ignored, I lose 30 seconds. If I roll the dice 🎲 and get a reply, it could - and historically has - given me incredible opportunities. This is a risk / benefit equation I will always accept! So this is the advice I'd give to my future kids and frankly anyone at any stage of their career: Play to the law of averages, every rejection gets you one NO closer to the YES and roll the dice - because so much of the time you have absolutely nothing to lose!!! Congrats to Tanay Kothari, Sahaj Garg and the whole Wispr Flow team, it's been an honour to be your investor, brand partner and friend over the last 2 years! Have you tried Wispr Flow??

Today we're announcing Wispr Flow has raised a $280M Series B at a $2B valuation, led by Menlo Ventures. This funding means a deeper investment in our products, lab, models, and team. We're building a future where voice is the primary way you interact with technology. Learn more about our Series B: https://lnkd.in/gcYvdrdt

Last week, Tanay Kothari and Sahaj Garg, the founders of Wispr Flow, launched Notetaker. I think "notetaker" badly undersells what they've built. On the surface, it records your meeting and hands you a clean summary, which is genuinely useful. But that's the least interesting thing it does. The value shows up after the call ends: the decisions, the follow-ups, the answer an AI tool gives you three weeks later when you ask what a customer actually agreed to. And all of it depends on what gets captured in the first place, which is where I think most tools fall down. We don't talk in bullet points. We talk over each other, trail off, circle back, and lean on shorthand and half-sentences that carry most of the meaning. Flatten that into tidy notes while the meeting is still running and you lose the hesitation before a yes, the exact wording of a commitment, and the record of who said what. That's the argument for building this voice-first. A product built around speech can hold onto that raw signal instead of throwing it away the second it turns into notes. And when the capture is faithful, the notes and the answers that come out of it hold up too. Wispr didn't discover meetings last month. The team has spent years building one of the most accurate voice transcription products anyone has shipped. Notetaker captures on-device, without a bot sitting in on the call, and the output stays usable in the tools you already work in. I use Wispr every day, mostly to catch an idea before it's gone. At MVP Ventures we backed the team at their seed, and I think they're unusually well positioned for where this category is going. Congratulations to Tanay, Sahaj, Ariya Rastrow, Ethan Carlson, Cliff Chang, and the entire Wispr team on the launch!

Last week, we launched our second major product — Notetaker, and there's a few key features we're excited for you to try: - Speaker labeling (helps you keep track of action items) - The "What did I miss" button (for the times you need to answer the doorbell and don't want to miss anything) Here's how they work 👇