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July 14, 2023
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Descript

All-in-one video and podcast editing.

About

Industry

Audio & Video, Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Founded

2017

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Website

Link

jobs

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Funding History

funding

$100 million

Valuation

~$550 million

Notable investors

Redpoint Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, OpenAI Startup Fund

Traction

  • Descript customers include thousands of podcasts like NPR Planet Money, NPR How I Built This, Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend, Work Life Adam Grant, Sway by The New York Times, and organizations like Shopify, MasterClass, Stanford University, Hubspot, Headspace, and iHeartMedia.

Leadership

  • Andrew Mason: Founder & CEO of Descript. Former Founder & CEO of Groupon.
  • Sunny Rochiramani: VP of Engineering at Descript. Former Director of Engineering at Dropbox.
  • Kundan Kumar: Head of Artificial Intelligence at Descript. Former Co-Founder of Lyrebird AI.  
  • Sandy Diao: Director of Growth at Descript. Former Business Growth Program Lead at Facebook.

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