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📍 Mountain View · Silicon ValleyFounded 2022

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Moonshine AI (formerly Useful Sensors) is an on-device voice AI company founded by former Google TensorFlow engineers, building speech-to-text, text-to-speech and voice-agent models that run entirely locally across iOS, Android, desktop and Raspberry Pi.

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Moonshine AIPete WardenPete WardenManjunath KudlurManjunath Kudlur
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Founders / core team

Pete Warden联合创始人Manjunath Kudlur联合创始人

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Andreessen Horowitz

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Khosla Ventures

13 Vertical Models deals in the last 24 months · 8 in 硅谷

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Sequoia Capital

10 Vertical Models deals in the last 24 months · 9 in 硅谷

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Index Ventures

10 Vertical Models deals in the last 24 months · 9 in 硅谷

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HongShan

10 Vertical Models deals in the last 24 months · 1 in 硅谷

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Lightspeed

7 Vertical Models deals in the last 24 months · 7 in 硅谷

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