Voice AI startup Wispr announced a $25 million investment led by Notable Capital, adding to a prior $30 million Menlo Ventures round and bringing total funding to $81 million. The capital will fund international expansion, new product development, and hiring of top machine‑learning talent. Wispr Flow, the company’s dictation app, has seen rapid user growth, a 40 percent month‑over‑month increase since June, and strong enterprise adoption, with 270 Fortune 500 firms reached and 125 signed enterprise customers. CEO Tanay Kothari highlighted high retention, new user guidance features, and plans to broaden platform support, including an Android beta. Read more →

Sumble, a San Francisco startup founded by former Kaggle leaders Anthony Goldbloom and Ben Hamner, emerged from stealth with $38.5 million in seed and Series A financing. The company uses a knowledge graph backed by large language models to pull public data from the web and deliver contextual sales intelligence, including technographic details, organizational charts, and project insights. Since its April launch, Sumble has signed 19 enterprise customers such as Snowflake, Figma, Wiz, Vercel and Elastic, with roughly 30% of users on a paid Pro plan. Growth has been driven by word‑of‑mouth adoption inside organizations, and the startup now faces competition from established sales‑intelligence vendors. Read more →