Namecoach

Namecoach

Teaching voice AI the language of names

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Categories
Technology, Financial Services, Retail
Min Investment
$100
Location
Palo Alto, , CA
No. Investors
346

Key Deal Facts

$4M+ annual recurring revenue (ARR) with 90%+ gross profit margin
4M+ users connected through Salesforce, Outlook, Teams and Canvas
400+ B2B customers and partners including WNBA, Proctor & Gamble & The American Medical Association
Backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Stanford’s StartX, Impact America Fund & other Tier 1 VCs
World-class leadership from Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, Coca-Cola, Amazon, American Express
92% of 50K people surveyed agree name errors affect professional and personal connections
$100B opportunity as demand for better AI voice tools soars
Same investors as Spotify, Oura Ring, OpenAI, Facebook, and Airbnb

Management Team / Advisory Board Bios

Tier 1 VC-Backed
Raised $250K or more from a top-tier venture firm, Praveen ShanbhagFounder & CEOTech innovator and culture builder. Former White House Science & Tech Analyst, Stanford Lecturer, National Academy of Sciences Fellow, and Senior Analyst at Advisory Board. Harvard BA. Columbia MA. Cambridge MPhil. Stanford PhD., John MerrellsEngineering & Product AdvisorAward winning startup veteran and seasoned software engineer. 16 exits worth $8.3B+. Mentor at StartX and advisor to unicorns including Andela and Synack. Former AOL, and Sun Microsystems executive. University of Hertfordshire Computer Science BS., Flavio Cruz Head of Finance and OperationsCorporate strategy and finance expert. Former Coca-Cola, Ericsson, and BAT executive. Led R&D Software Engineering program for a 150 person team. Audited $28B merger. University of Cambridge MBA., Jon LacivitaHead of GrowthGrowth strategist & acquisition expert. Scaled sales from $0 to $10M as VP of Business Development at Proctorio (bootstrapped). Former Sales/Collections Training Lead at American Express. Boston College BS. Babson College MBA., Fabricio BellesaHead of EngineeringEngineering leader and product visionary. Scaled PicPay from 30 to 1,000 engineers as Brazil’s largest digital wallet. Managed a $6M budget. Delivered 30+ products. Expert in microservices. Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo BS., Jon OlsonDirector of DesignCreative problem solver and UX/UI visionary. Spearheaded AI-assisted Namecoach for Events launch. Pivotal roles in Edtech at Proctorio and ASU online. Built GreenBean, a custom cross-platform game engine. Arizona State University BA., Zac Whitney Principal Product Manager & Data SpecialistAI innovator and product wiz. Led feature development across several domains for Amazon Alexa devices, and accelerated feature deployment by 85%. Scaled AWS Tokyo Executive Briefing Program, drove revenue from $5M to $70M in 3 years. Williams College BA.
Amount Raised : $7,998,989
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