# NameCoach

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/namecoach

- Industry: Software
- Headquarters: Palo Alto, US
- Website: https://cloud.name-coach.com
- Total disclosed funding: $8M
- Latest round: Series A (Nov 17, 2022)
- Investors on record: 14

## About

Founded in 2014 and based in California, US, NameCoach, Inc. operates as an audio platform that teaches and corrects its user's pronunciation via its context source database solution. By 2016, the company's product has worked with hundreds of schools. The company was founded by CEO Praveen Shanbhag, a Ph.D. from Stanford. In November 2022, NameCoach raised USD 8 million in series A funding led by new investor Impact America Fund, with participation from other new investors Authentic Ventures, AISprouts, Metaplanet Holdings, Founders Fund, Engage Ventures, GTMFund, 640 Oxford Ventures, Transcend Network, Asymmetry Ventures, Forefront Venture Partners, Network Ventures, Harbor Street Ventures, Seabed VC, and Transcend Network. Since 2019, the company has seen a 205% increase in inbound demand.

The company's product can be used for education, business and personal namebadge. Its product can be embedded into frequently used apps such as Gmail, Salesforce, and Canvas. It also offers API and software development kit for third parties to integrate the functionality.

The company is planning to develop an AI to provide pronunciations that take the speaker’s native language into account, which originally only counts name-owner's language.

## Funding rounds

- Series A, Nov 17, 2022, $8M — Founders Fund, Impact America Fund, Network Ventures, Forefront Venture Partners, Seabed VC, Authentic Ventures, Harbor Street Ventures, Metaplanet Holdings, Asymmetry Ventures, AiSprouts, Engage Ventures, 640 Oxford Ventures, GTMfund, Transcend Network

## Investors

- Founders Fund (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/founders-fund) — Series A
- Impact America Fund (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/impact-america-fund) — Series A
- Network Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/network-ventures) — Series A
- Forefront Venture Partners (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/forefront-venture-partners) — Series A
- Seabed VC (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/seabed-vc) — Series A
- Authentic Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/authentic-ventures) — Series A
- Harbor Street Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/harbor-street-ventures) — Series A
- Metaplanet Holdings (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/metaplanet-holdings) — Series A
- Asymmetry Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/asymmetry-ventures) — Series A
- AiSprouts (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/aisprouts) — Series A
- Engage Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/engage-ventures) — Series A
- 640 Oxford Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/640-oxford-ventures) — Series A
- GTMfund (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/gtmfund) — Series A
- Transcend Network — Series A