Portfolio
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companies
Flown
Digital workspace platform providing remote properties and tools for knowledge workers.
Papercup
Papercup provides AI video and audio dubbing services featuring expressive synthetic voices.
Octopus Ventures led the Series A round to support machine learning research and language expansion.
"People retain up to 70% more information when watching videos dubbed in their native language. With truly emotive cross-lingual AI dubbing, we can tackle all forms of content, making video and audio more accessible and enjoyable for everyone. This funding will allow us to double down on our promising research and break into new content categories."
The seed round was led by Pi Labs with participation from BDMI, Venrex, and several female-focused funds.
"I believe deep work and flow states will be for the next decade what mindfulness has been for the last."
LocalGlobe and Sands Capital Ventures led the financing round, which will fund research and quality control expansion.
"Most of the world’s videos – billions of hours of content – are shackled to a single language. And that’s for a simple reason – quality dubbing is prohibitively expensive and time-consuming, so current solutions only work for a select group of deep-pocketed content owners. Speech translation technology fundamentally changes the dynamics of how content is distributed and monetised. The technology we created will level the playing field – allowing all forms of video and audio to be consumed in any language, therefore vastly multiplying the potential reach for all content creators."
