Alpine.AI
Pioneering the voice-enabled path to purchase, Alpine.ai is making brands and retailers accessible and valuable in a voice-enabled world. With the growing popularity of voice-first devices like the Amazon Echo and Google Home and now over 100M Android phones conversationally enabled, consumers are increasingly expecting brand experiences to deliver valuable answers conversationally on these devices. Alpine is reimagining these experiences by creating voice and visual solutions that benefit consumers in this new, voice-enabled world.
Alpine.AI
Pioneering the voice-enabled path to purchase, Alpine.ai is making brands and retailers accessible and valuable in a voice-enabled world. With the growing popularity of voice-first devices like the Amazon Echo and Google Home and now over 100M Android phones conversationally enabled, consumers are increasingly expecting brand experiences to deliver valuable answers conversationally on these devices. Alpine is reimagining these experiences by creating voice and visual solutions that benefit consumers in this new, voice-enabled world.
TL;DR
What they built: Voice-shopping / voice-AI platform that mapped natural-language queries to retailer product catalogs
Fate: Acquired by Headspace (September 2018)
Funding stage: Seed (raised a few million; exact amount undisclosed)
Founding / origin: Emerged from VoiceLabs (VoiceLabs → Alpine.AI), publicly active 2016–2018
Company Overview
Problem Domain
Voice commerce / conversational retail (connecting consumers to retailer catalogs via voice/AI).
Founded
2016
Industry
Voice AI / E-commerce
Funding Track Record
Seed round reported as "a few million"; investors included The Chernin Group, Javelin Venture Partners and Betaworks
Investor Signal
“Raised seed backing from strategic digital-media and early-stage investors (The Chernin Group, Javelin Venture Partners, Betaworks)”