Gladia - About the company
Gladia is an acquired company based in Cesson Sevigne (France), founded in 2022 by Jean-Louis Quéguiner. It operates as a Provider of speech-to-text APIs for developers. Gladia has raised $20.3M in funding from New Wave and XAnge. The company has 517 active competitors, including 52 funded and 32 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Otter.ai, SoundHound and Wispr Flow.
Company Details
- Website
- www.gladia.io/
- Social
- Email ID
- *****@gladia.io
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2022
Location
Cesson Sevigne, France
Stage
Acquired
Total Funding
$20.3M in 2 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Ranked
13th among 517 active competitors
Employee Count
57 as on Sep 30, 2026
Exit Details
Acquired by OVHcloud (Jul 31, 2026)
Gladia's acquisition details
Gladia got acquired by OVHcloud on Jul 31, 2026.
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Gladia's funding and investors
Gladia has raised a total funding of $20.3M over 2 rounds. Its first funding round was on Jun 19, 2023. Its latest funding round was a Series A round on Oct 15, 2024 for $*****. 9 investors participated in its latest round. Gladia has 15 institutional investors and 4 angel investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Gladia:
Date of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
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Oct 15, 2024 | 7674810 | Series A | 1033367 | 7903923 | 4363850 | 7239760 |
Jun 19, 2023 | 9784997 | Seed | 7480942 | 2385906 |
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Gladia's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileThe founders of Gladia is Jean-Louis Quéguiner.
Here are the details of Gladia's key team members:
- Jean-Louis Quéguiner: Founder of Gladia. They are also an angel investor in 4 startups.
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Gladia's employee count trend
Gladia has 57 employees as of Sep 26. Here is Gladia's employee count trend over the years:
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Gladia's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of Gladia include Otter.ai, SoundHound and Wispr Flow. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Gladia, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
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1st | Otter.ai 2016, Los Altos (United States), Series B | Developer of an AI meeting agent providing transcription and summarization | $70M | 80/100 | |
2nd |  SoundHound 2005, Santa Clara (United States), Public | Provider of cloud and AI-based sound recognition solutions for multiple applications | $191M | 77/100 | |
3rd | Wispr Flow 2021, San Francisco (United States), Series B | Provider of voice to text dictation and meeting notetaker software | $362M | 71/100 | |
4th |  Verbit 2017, New York City (United States), Series E | Provider of cloud and AI-based natural language processing platform to develop speech recognition applications | $550M | 70/100 | |
5th | AssemblyAI 2017, San Francisco (United States), Series C | Provider of speech to text solutions | $115M | 69/100 | |
6th |  Deepgram 2015, San Francisco (United States), Series C | Provider of AI-based speech transcription software | $229M | 68/100 | |
7th | Provider of AI-based speech and language interaction technology | - | 67/100 | ||
8th | Provider of AI-backed voice solutions for multiple industries | $302M | 67/100 | ||
9th |  Speechmatics 2006, Cambridge (United Kingdom), Series B | Provider of speech recognition software for real time voice processing | $90.6M | 64/100 | |
10th | Sanas 2020, Palo Alto (United States), Series B | AI powered accent translation software | $121M | 64/100 | |
13th | Provider of speech-to-text APIs for developers | $20.3M | 60/100 |
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Gladia's Investments and acquisitions
Gladia has made no investments or acquisitions yet.
Reports related to Gladia
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News related to Gladia
Media has covered Gladia for a total of 2 events in the last 1 year, 1 of them has been about company updates.
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OVHcloud Moves to Acquire Gladia to Enhance Sovereign AI and Cloud StrategyHostingJournalist•Jun 11, 2026•Gladia, OVHcloud
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Gladia and Pipecat partner to push the boundaries of real-time voice AIGladia•May 14, 2025•Daily, Gladia
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Gladia Launches Solaria, the First Fully Multilingual, Next-Generation Speech-to-Text Model for Global ScalabilityDirectors Club•Apr 02, 2025•Gladia, LiveKit
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Gladia raised $ 16 millionBFMTV•Oct 30, 2024•Gladia, Apple, Illuminate Financial, XTX Markets and 1 other
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French Startup Gladia Raises €16 Million in Series A Funding - OjOdessa Journal•Oct 16, 2024•Gladia, Roosh, Illuminate Financial, XTX Markets and 5 others
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Gladia raises $16M for AI transcription and analyticsDnyuz•Oct 15, 2024•Gladia, XAnge, XTX Markets, Illuminate Financial and 8 others
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Paris-based Gladia Raises $16 Million in Series A Round FundingStartup Rise EU•Oct 15, 2024•Gladia, XAnge, Illuminate Financial, XTX Markets and 10 others
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