Voice AI startup Wispr raised a $280M Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $2B valuation, taking its total funding to $361M, and now has 100K business customers (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

<a href="https://fortune.com/2026/08/17/wispr-2-billion-valuation-dictations-only-the-beginning/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260817/i12.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260817/p12#a260817p12" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Allie Garfinkle / <a href="http://www.fortune.com/">Fortune</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://fortune.com/2026/08/17/wispr-2-billion-valuation-dictations-only-the-beginning/">Voice AI startup Wispr raised a $280M Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $2B valuation, taking its total funding to $361M, and now has 100K business customers</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Tanay Kothari saw Iron Man when he was 10 years old.&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; It was 2008 and he wasn't entranced with Tony Stark.</p>