Wispr is spending its new war chest on the meeting room, not just the keyboard. The company behind the Flow dictation app announced a $280M Series B on Monday, led by Menlo Ventures, at a $2B valuation, bringing total funding to $361M barely ten months after its last round.
The expansion target is meetings, where Wispr’s new note-taker faces Granola, Fireflies, and Read AI, summarizing conversations and pulling out action items. A freshly announced speech model called Canto is meant to fix the quality complaints that have dogged Flow in recent weeks, cutting error rates from roughly 30% to below 10%.
Rivals have piled into the space too, with Willow, Monologue, Aqua, and Superwhisper chasing the same customers while cheaper tools keep appearing. Wispr is also branching into hardware partnerships such as the Oasis ring, letting people dictate without speaking loudly.
Wispr Interface Labs, launched last month and headed by Ariya Rastrow, an engineer from Amazon’s early Alexa days, is exploring new ways for people to talk to machines. Longtime backers came back for this one, led by Notable Capital and NEA. Neo Ventures, 8VC, and MVP Ventures also returned, along with a handful of new names.
