Education Technology
Speak
An AI-powered language-learning app that teaches users to speak by having real-time spoken conversations with an AI tutor, backed by the OpenAI Startup Fund. Speak raised a $78 million Series C in November 2024 at a $1 billion valuation led by Accel, its second preempted raise that year after its valuation had already doubled to $500 million just six months earlier, with total funding raised across all rounds reaching $162 million.
Sources
Every claim traced to a primary source — evidence, recent activity, and insider filing behavior, all in one place.
Evidence
2 sources · 51% avg. source confidence
- TechCrunch — Speak raises $78M Series C at $1B valuation56% source confidence
- AIM Media House — Speak expands into Southeast Asia, Europe and new languages after unicorn round46% source confidence
Dependency Map
What Speak depends on below, and who depends on Speak above — click any node to make it the new center, 2 levels deep.
Connection type
Click any node to make it the new center. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan.
The Story So Far
Auto-generated from this entity's dated milestones, relationship updates, and sourced evidence — not AI-written, just sorted.
Speak's Timeline
A sourced, dated history of Speak's key moments — founding to present.
Jan 2016 · Founded
Speak was founded to teach languages through real-time spoken conversation practice with an AI tutor.
Nov 2024 · Raises $78M Series C at $1B valuation
Speak raised a $78 million Series C led by Accel at a $1 billion valuation, with participation from the OpenAI Startup Fund, Khosla Ventures and Y Combinator -- its second preempted raise of the year after its valuation had already doubled to $500 million six months earlier.
Jan 2026 · Expands into Southeast Asia, Europe and new languages
Speak used its Series C proceeds to expand across Southeast Asia, Europe and the US, adding new languages including Spanish and French to its platform, and launched a brand campaign featuring Korean actor Kim Woo-bin targeting the South Korean market.