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Otter.ai

Otter.ai builds AI-powered meeting transcription and note-taking software that generates live transcripts, summaries, and action items.

Otter.ai (legal entity AISense, Inc.) is an American company founded in 2016 by Sam Liang and Yun Fu, providing an AI meeting assistant that produces real-time transcription, automated summaries, and action-item extraction for voice conversations and video meetings such as Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. Sam Liang, who previously co-founded location-technology startup Alohar Mobile, serves as CEO; Yun Fu serves as CTO. Otter.ai has raised roughly $63-73 million in total funding, most notably a $50 million Series B round led by Spectrum Equity in February 2021, which was the company's most recent disclosed major funding round as of 2026. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and its employee count has been reported in the 200-280 range across various sources in 2026.

Founded

2016

Headquarters

Mountain View, United States

Sector

applications