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Plaud Inc.

Azienda di hardware di San Francisco dietro a Plaud Note e NotePin, registratori vocali basati sull’IA che trasformano riunioni e conversazioni in trascrizioni e riassunti.

In inglese

Plaud was founded in 2021 by CEO Nathan Xu, building compact recording hardware meant to pair with GPT-based transcription and summarization rather than compete with a phone's built-in voice memo app. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with additional teams in Shenzhen, Singapore, Tokyo and Seattle. Its first product, Plaud Note, is a credit-card-sized recorder that clips to the back of a phone and can capture in-person conversations as well as phone calls; the follow-up NotePin is a smaller wearable clip built to be worn through the day rather than pulled out for meetings. Both sync recordings to a companion app that runs transcription and templated summaries on top of large language models, including OpenAI's. Plaud has scaled quickly for an AI hardware company: it has said it shipped over two million devices and passed $100 million in annualized recurring revenue by mid-2026, largely funded by that revenue rather than large venture rounds, before taking in outside investment tied to a valuation reported near $2 billion.

Founded

2021

Headquarters

San Francisco, United States

Sector

hardware