This 13-year-old Startup Just Got $100 Million And Is Valued At Over $1 Billion — Now It's Taking On Amazon, Google, And Apple (

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Thu, 05/03/2018 - 4:00am

Soundhound SoundHound has raised a $100 million funding round, led by Chinese tech giant Tencent. We've heard that it values the company at over $1 billion. The company has pivoted from a music identification app, into building out Houndify — a platform that lets companies quickly build their own voice assistants, like Apple's Siri or Amazon's Alexa.

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