Earlier this fall, Reid Hoffman wrote about being “voicepilled.” The term borrows from The Matrix, that moment of sudden mental clarity when you realize there’s another way to see the world. For him, being voicepilled was the moment when he started using his voice to interact with technology and unlocked a faster, better way to get things done.
Hoffman isn’t alone. Millions of people around the world are ditching their keyboards and discovering the power of voice as the next great interface shift. Every major leap in computing has come not just from smarter machines but from better interfaces, and this is the next one. As AI scales, people can finally interact with technology in the most human way possible: by speaking.
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The shift is real
At Wispr, we’ve been building toward this moment. From the start, our goal has been to build a voice-native computing system, powered by foundation models built specifically for how people speak and work. Most tools treat voice as a feature. We’re building the underlying system that makes speech reliable enough to become the primary way people get things done.
Today, we’re taking the next step towards that goal with $25 million in new funding, bringing our total funding to $81 million, led by Notable Capital with participation from Steven Bartlett’s Flight Fund.
Hans Tung at Notable joins our board. A 13-time Forbes Midas Lister, Hans has been an early backer of companies like Affirm, Airbnb, Slack, Coinbase, Anthropic, and TikTok, businesses that redefined how people shop, work, and communicate, and valued at over $100b collectively today. Hans has a history of investing in the technologies that become everyday habits, and his belief in us is evidence that Wispr is on that same path.
Steven Bartlett, through Flight Fund, brings the kind of reach and energy that makes new ideas spread. As host of The Diary of a CEO, he’s built one of the world’s top 10 podcasts with over a billion streams and an audience of more than 35 million subscribers, all dedicated to helping people reach their full potential. In addition to the investment, we’re also launching a year-long collaboration with The Diary of a CEO to spotlight how voice is becoming the next great driver of human productivity.
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