SoundHound
American music and speech recognition company
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| February 2025 | Nvidia disclosed in a regulatory filing that it had sold its stake in SoundHound AI. |
| February 2025 | SoundHound introduced brand personalities for its Chat AI automotive voice assistant, allowing car manufacturers to create unique vehicle voice identities. |
| January 2025 | Lucid launched the Lucid Assistant powered by SoundHound Chat AI. |
| January 2025 | At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, SoundHound introduced an in-vehicle voice commerce platform for placing takeout orders through car infotainment systems. |
| January 2025 | SoundHound announced a partnership with Rekor Systems to integrate voice and conversational AI with vehicle recognition software. |
| November 2024 | SoundHound integrated its voice AI into Kia vehicles in India, including support for the Hindi language. |
| October 2024 | SoundHound won the 'Overall Connected Solution of the Year' award in the AutoTech Breakthrough Awards Program for its Chat AI solution. |
| August 2024 | SoundHound acquired Amelia AI for $85 million to increase presence in financial services, insurance, healthcare, retail, and hospitality sectors. |
| June 2024 | Acquired Allset, a restaurant ordering marketplace founded out of Ukraine. |
| June 2024 | SoundHound acquired Allset, a restaurant ordering marketplace founded out of Ukraine. |
| 2023 | SoundHound's Dynamic Interaction solution was selected as the 'Best Use of AI' at the Automation & Self-Service Awards. |
| December 2023 | SoundHound acquired SYNQ3 Restaurant Solutions, a provider of voice AI for restaurants, for $25 million. |
| April 2023 | SoundHound secured $100 million in strategic financing. |
| January 2023 | The company reduced its workforce by approximately 50% to realign financial strategies and expedite path to profitability. |
| November 2022 | SoundHound implemented a 10% workforce reduction and salary adjustments in response to economic challenges. |
| April 2022 | SoundHound completed its public listing transaction through the merger with Archimedes Tech SPAC Partners Co. |
| April 28 2022 | The combined company SoundHound AI, Inc. went public, listed under the symbol SOUN on the Nasdaq. |
| November 16 2021 | SoundHound announced plans to become a public company via a SPAC merger with Archimedes Tech SPAC Partners Co. |
| 2020 | SoundHound won the Webby Award for Productivity (Voice) in the Apps, Mobile & Voice category. |
| 2018 | SoundHound announced partnerships with Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz, and Honda to provide voice interaction using its Houndify voice AI platform. |
| May 2018 | SoundHound raised $100 million in a funding round led by Tencent, with participation from Daimler AG, Hyundai Motors, Midea Group, and Orange S.A. |
| January 2017 | SoundHound raised $75 million in an investment round including Nvidia, Samsung, and Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, reaching a company valuation of $1 billion. |
| 2015 | SoundHound became the first music recognition service shipping in cars, partnering with Hyundai in the new Genesis model. |
| December 2015 | SoundHound launched a voice AI platform promising to 'add voice-enabled conversational interface to anything,' built on proprietary Speech-to-Meaning and Deep Meaning Understanding technologies. |
| June 2015 | SoundHound had raised a total of $40 million in funding from investors including Global Catalyst Partners, Translink Capital, and Walden Venture Capital. |
| September 2012 | SoundHound app grew to 100 million users by September. |
| January 2010 | SoundHound app had 2 million users in January. |
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