
At Audio Analytic, we create exceptional human experiences through a greater sense of hearing. We do this by partnering with leading consumer tech companies to bring intelligence and context to their products through an accurate, robust and compact sense of hearing. This ‘greater sense of hearing’ will help us remember the past, help, improve and extend our hearing in the present and anticipate what we need in the very near future. Our embedded software platforms (ai3™ and ai3-nano™) have been licensed to some of the world’s most prominent companies and are suitable for a wide range of products from smart speakers and video doorbells to smartphones, xR glasses and true wireless earbuds.

At Audio Analytic, we create exceptional human experiences through a greater sense of hearing. We do this by partnering with leading consumer tech companies to bring intelligence and context to their products through an accurate, robust and compact sense of hearing. This ‘greater sense of hearing’ will help us remember the past, help, improve and extend our hearing in the present and anticipate what we need in the very near future. Our embedded software platforms (ai3™ and ai3-nano™) have been licensed to some of the world’s most prominent companies and are suitable for a wide range of products from smart speakers and video doorbells to smartphones, xR glasses and true wireless earbuds.
What they do: Develop embedded sound-recognition platforms (ai3 and ai3-nano) for consumer devices
Founded / HQ: Founded by Dr. Chris Mitchell; based in Cambridge, UK
Exit: Acquired by Meta — Reality Labs (announced November 2022)
Funding (historical): Multiple rounds including a $5.5M Series A (2017); total reported funding ~ $20.44M
Edge audio event recognition for consumer electronics
Consumer technology / Embedded software
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“Included institutional investors such as IQ Capital and National Grid Partners; multiple funding rounds and investor participation prior to acquisition”