inc. type privately held company industry speech recognition mobile technology founded september 2005 ; 11 years ago 2005 09 headquarters santa clara ca united states products soundhound hound houndify number of employees 246 website soundhound official page soundhound inc. founded in 2005 is an audio recognition and cognition company . it develops sound recognition and sound search technologies . its feature product is a music recognition mobile app called soundhound . in 2015 it released two new products a voice recognition virtual assistant mobile app called hound and a voice enabled developer platform called houndify . the company s headquarters are in santa clara california . 1 contents 1 history 2 funding 3 see also 3.1 technologies involved 3.2 companies in the same field 4 external links 5 references history edit the company was founded in 2005 by keyvan mohajer a ph.d. candidate at stanford studying vocal recognition . in 2009 the company s midomi app was rebranded as soundhound . 2 in 2012 soundhound announced it had over 100 million users globally . 3 in 2014 soundhound became the first music search product available as a wearable . 4 later soundhound became the first music recognition service shipping in autos in a partnership with hyundai in the new 2015 genesis . 5 by june 2015 soundhound had over 260 million users globally . 6 funding edit soundhound inc. has raised 40 million in funding from global catalyst partners translink capital walden venture capital and other investors . 7 the company secured 7 million in a series b funding round in october 2008 bringing total funds raised to 12 million . the round was led by translink capital with the participation of jaic america and series a investor global catalyst partners . in 2009 it attracted additional funding from larry marcus at walden venture capital who had previously invested in music startups pandora and snocap . the 4 million funding round was led by walden venture capital vii with the participation of an unnamed device manufacturer . 8 see also edit technologies involved edit query by humming speech recognition voice search companies in the same field edit acrcloud audio fingerprinting humming recognition gracenote audio fingerprinting music recommendation shazam audio fingerprinting external links edit midomi.com soundhound website houndify website references edit may patrick 3 june 2013 . siri s got nothing on soundhound s new app . the mercury news . retrieved 1 march 2016 . rollison damian 27 january 2010 . tune identifier soundhound announces new version with pandora tour dates . venturebeat . retrieved 1 march 2016 . screenvision activates soundhound partnership to connect mobile moviegoers to big screen ads screenvision . www.screenvision.com . retrieved 2015 06 05 . soundhound first music discovery service to be live on wearables business wire . www.businesswire.com . retrieved 2015 06 05 . hyundai and kia tap soundhound to help you identify music in your car . engadget . retrieved 2015 06 05 . della cava marco 2 june 2015 . hound styles itself as siri or cortana with a phd . usa today . retrieved 1 march 2016 . winkler rolf 2 june 2015 . soundhound app emerges to take on apple and google in voice search . wall street journal . retrieved 1 march 2016 . wauters robin 25 august 2011 . music search startup soundhound partners with spotify for instant streaming . techcrunch . retrieved 1 march 2016 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title soundhound & oldid 742653268 categories android operating system softwareios softwaresymbian softwaremusic search enginescompanies established in 2005companies based in californiablackberry software navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages espa ol bahasa indonesia rom n suomi edit links this page was last modified on 4 october 2016 at 23 57 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view