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Ava

Ava

Private
San Francisco, CaliforniaEnterprise Softwarehttps://www.ava.me/

Last Round

Series A

May 3, 2022

Est. Valuation

$1.71M

Total Funding Raised

$16.66M

Company Overview

Ava is a technology company that provides a threaded speech-to-text application designed to facilitate group conversations for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals through real-time text translations and color-coded captions.

Sector

Enterprise Software

Verticals

NLP & Conversational AI, Enterprise Communication, Cloud Communications

Business Model

B2B

Customer Profile

Subscription SaaS, Usage-Based SaaS, Freemium

AI Layer

Application

Keywords

real-time transcriptionlive captioningaccessibility softwarespeech-to-textassistive technologyADA complianceAI captioninghuman-in-the-loopenterprise accessibilitycaptioning serviceautomated speech recognitionASRdeaf accessibilityAI accessibility toolsvibe coding

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Ava Comparables

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Ava comparables — related companies by embedding similarity
CompanySimilarityMarket Cap
Speaksee
77%
Asteroid Technologies
77%
Amberscript
76%

Ava Funding Rounds

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Data table
RoundDateAmount RaisedValuationInvestorsSources
Series AMay 3, 2022
SeedDec 9, 2020
SeedNov 16, 2016
AcceleratorJan 1, 2015
CrowdfundingNov 12, 2014

Key People

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FuYuan Cheng

CTO Co-Founder

Founding Team

Thibault Duchemin

Founder CEO

Founding Team

Ava Investors

Notable investors and investment history

Ava investors
InvestorRounds
PartechSeed
SV AngelSeed
Khosla VenturesSeries A, Seed
Crosslink CapitalSeed
Berkeley SkyDeckSeed
Enable VenturesSeries A
Seraph GroupSeed

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    Added Air France as a customer.

  • Nov 9, 2025

    Added AXA, an insurance and financial services company, as a customer.

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Firmographic Details

HeadquartersSan Francisco, California
Employee Range152
Year Founded2016
Last FundingMay 3, 2022

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