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Speak, founded in 2016 in San Francisco and backed by the OpenAI Startup Fund, is an English learning platform available in approximately 20 countries, with over 100,000 subscribers in its launch market of South Korea.
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Funding history
- 2024-12Series C$78M
Investors · Khosla Ventures, OpenAI Startup Fund, Accel, Y CombinatorSource · SVTR Weekly #083
- 2024-06Series B$20M
Investors · Buckley Ventures, OpenAI Startup Fund, Khosla VenturesSource · SVTR Weekly #058
- 2023-09Series B$16M
Source · SVTR Weekly #017
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