Invest in Namecoach

Voice AI with a Personal Touch

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$7,794,469

raised from 104 investors
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Priced Round
$36.98M pre-money valuation

Highlights

Tier 1 VC-Backed

Raised $250K or more from a top-tier venture firm

$1M+ Revenue

Earned over the last 12 months

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Backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Stanford’s StartX, Impact America Fund & other Tier 1 VCs
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Same investors as OpenAI, Anthropic, Spotify, Oura Ring, Facebook, and Airbnb
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$4M+ annual recurring revenue (ARR) with 90%+ gross profit margin
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400+ B2B customers and partners including WNBA, Proctor & Gamble & The American Medical Association

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Why Namecoach?

Namecoach is building the next essential layer for human and AI communication; starting with names, and expanding to set a global standard for culturally aware, personalized connection.

Every day, millions of personal and professional interactions falter at the first word: a mispronounced name. Trust erodes. Belonging fractures. Opportunity evaporates.

Namecoach is first solving this overlooked, universal problem with an award-winning AI system. Our patent software embeds accurate audio pronunciations and automated phonetic guides directly into the tools people use every day.

Backed by leading investors behind Anthropic, OpenAI, Airbnb, Meta, and Oura Ring, Namecoach is building the trusted infrastructure that will power humanized connection at global scale — for people and for AI.

Backed by the same investors fueling the world’s most transformative AI companies.

Already adopted by 400+ organizations, including top universities and Fortune 500 companies, Namecoach proves that mastering a single, overlooked, universal pain point can unlock extraordinary enterprise value.

And with strong business fundamentals, we’re delivering practical, compounding value to over 4 million users.

But names are just the beginning.

Our patented AI system, powered by the world’s largest verified dataset of name pronunciations, is already expanding into voice-driven communication, cultural personalization, and global AI infrastructure.

With voice interfaces becoming the next dominant human-computer interface, Namecoach is building a strategic wedge into the $100B+ Voice AI and Conversational AI markets.

It’s the combination of proven product-market fit today, and the inevitable platform expansion of tomorrow, that’s bringing top retail investors into this round as we open access to our broader community.

We were honored to be featured and directly invested in by Crowdscale, a premiere outlet focused on “startup investing for the masses.” Crowdscale highlighted our exceptional gross margins, our ever-improving machine learning models, and our massive growth potential as a strong case for investment.


We’re also proud to have been named a Top Deal by Kingscrowd, a leading private markets investment research platform, following extensive diligence from their team; who subsequently made a direct investment themselves.

An Astoundingly Widespread Problem

These investors are betting our on growth, in part because our traction so far is just scratching the surface.

We did the research (and the math). We found that name pronunciation itself turns out to be an astoundingly large, massively overlooked problem space.

There are over 30 million distinct names used around the world — vastly exceeding the vocabulary of any language. And with 80% of them having multiple valid pronunciations, it’s no surprise how often they’re said wrong.

In an increasingly diverse and connected world, mispronunciations have become a daily, universal friction point. This cuts across education, business, healthcare, and society.

From teachers to sales reps to doctors, they regularly get names wrong, often without realizing the damage done.

The consequences are immediate:

  • Trust erodes
  • Engagement drops
  • Relationships weaken
  • Opportunities vanish

Research from MIT confirms it:

When individuals’ names are repeatedly mispronounced, they experience lower confidence and diminished engagement. The effects cascade to team dynamics, learning outcomes, customer rapport, and business success.

Our own surveys show the costs from the other side:

  • 10% of sales professionals have lost a deal due to mispronouncing a customer’s name
  • 22% said they didn't introduce someone because they didn't know how to say their name
  • 13% didn't call on someone in a meeting because they didn't know how to pronounce their name.

Beyond numbers and deals, name mispronunciation strikes at identity itself, which is why the emotional impact runs even deeper. Our partners at Procter & Gamble captured the human significance powerfully in a moving short video:

Across industries and life stages, people internalize name mispronunciations as signals of disrespect and exclusion. This causes real harm to belonging, identity, and connection.

Mispronunciations aren’t small glitches. They are deeply consequential pain points. They happen so often that many people have simply resigned themselves to the repeated disrespect.

The Namecoach Solution

Namecoach seamlessly embeds pronunciation intelligence into the daily tools people use to connect across education, business, and beyond.

We make it effortless to get names right and in doing so, we unlock trust, connection, and opportunity at every point of communication.

Namecoach integrates into daily communication workflows.
Namecoach AI in the Canvas Learning Management System

No complex training or onboarding. No disruption to existing workflows.

Just accurate pronunciations; instantly accessible whenever it’s needed and where users already are, inside tools like Salesforce, Outlook, Zoom, Canvas, and more.

Our patented, award-winning AI system combines:

  • Verified audio pronunciations and recordings from real users,
  • The world’s largest dataset of verified name pronunciations,
  • Contextual metadata (like nationality, language, gender, and location) to predict the most accurate and personalized pronunciation for each individual.

This allows us to deliver culturally aware, confidence-inspiring pronunciation recommendations, even when a name has multiple genuine variations.

As more users engage, the system continually gets better:

  • Every user-contributed or user-verified pronunciation expands our proprietary dataset,
  • Every interaction improves our AI’s accuracy and contextual intelligence,
  • Every new integration expands our reach and strengthens our stickiness

These natural network effects create a self-reinforcing flywheel of continuously increasing accuracy, coverage, and defensibility:

More users → Better data → Smarter AI → More users

Namecoach's Data, AI, and User Network Effect

The Next Frontier of Enterprise Value

Investors, startups, and global corporations alike are now asking: Where will the next generation of enterprise value be built in an AI-first world?

Parul Singh of Initialized Capital captured the answer precisely:

It won't come from model size or tech differentiation, but from productizing overlooked and hard-to-collect data “earned through workflow integration, patient data collection, and relentless operational grind”:

This has been part of Namecoach’s strategy from Day One.

Before AI became the dominant paradigm, we were already building the data foundation others would need. We have a high-trust, real-world personalization dataset earned through real user engagement.

As voice interfaces, personalization engines, and conversational AI systems scale, Namecoach is positioned as the trusted, privacy-first infrastructure layer that humanizes digital interaction. We power a wide array of durable, high-margin revenue streams.

We aren't adapting to the AI era. We were built for it.

Our Expanding Business Model

Namecoach is scaling through a multi-channel, deeply defensible business model built for capital-efficient hypergrowth.

Today, we drive strong revenue through B2B SaaS annual subscriptions across:

  • Higher Education (colleges, universities, K-12 districts),
  • Corporate (SMB’s, Enterprise, global organizations).

But that's just the first layer, and we're expanding across multiple powerful growth vectors.

1. B2B SaaS

Namecoach is embedded into core workflows at leading organizations, driving strong gross margins and natural expansion.

A key near-term growth engine: Namecoach AI for Events is already setting the new standard globally, our innovative platform for 100% accurate name pronunciation at graduations and major events supports a range of event options from live announcers to AI-synthesized audio.

2. Product-Led Growth

Inspired by strategies used by breakout companies like Grammarly, we are rapidly expanding our direct-to-user adoption channels.

Our growing suite of free tools: a Chrome extension, a Pronunciation Search platform, and Personal Namebadges allows individuals to experience the power of Namecoach effortlessly, laying the foundation for:

  • Viral organic growth,
  • Bottom-up institutional adoption,
  • Freemium-to-paid conversion

This product-led growth motion enables revenue acceleration through mass adoption and upselling.

3. API for 3rd Party Communication Tools

Our API enables third-party developers to integrate Namecoach functionality into their communication platforms from sales enablement tools to learning management systems. Our enterprise communication software unlocks usage-based revenue and embedding us deeper into digital communication ecosystems.

(Think: the Twilio of personalized communication.)

4. Voice AI Licensing

As Voice AI adoption accelerates, Namecoach’s proprietary pronunciation system is uniquely positioned to become the trusted layer of personalization for:

  • AI model platforms
  • Conversational AI systems
  • Voice agents

Licensing our pronunciation technology helps humanize AI interactions. Through this we are creating a major new line of scalable, high-margin revenue.

Positioned for Disciplined Hypergrowth

With complementary growth vectors accelerating, Namecoach is positioned to:

  • Scale to $10M+ ARR within 18-24 months
  • Expand embedded adoption across education, enterprise, and platform ecosystems
  • Establish a foundational presence in the $100B+ Voice AI market

New strategic partnerships with major tech platforms are projected to generate up to $14M in incremental ARR over the next three years.

And while scaling aggressively across these vectors, our financial model is built for durability — targeting a Rule of 40 profile as a minimum benchmark for operational discipline.

We are building not just for growth, but for lasting leadership in the personalization layer of human and AI communication.

Forward-looking financials are not guaranteed.

How Big Can Our Market Get?

Namecoach is already addressing a massive, overlooked market and expanding into one of the largest technology opportunities of the decade.

From a critical but overlooked starting point to a transformational AI opportunity.

Through detailed bottom-up analysis of current contracts, inbound demand, and future use cases, we’ve validated that name mispronunciation alone represents an $11B+ total annual revenue opportunity across:

  • Universities and K-12 schools,
  • Corporate HR and onboarding,
  • Sales, customer service, and call centers,
  • Healthcare,
  • Recruiting,
  • And more.

And mastering this space positions us to move into the emerging Voice AI and Conversational AI markets estimated to be $100 billion+ by 2032.

Expanding Across Communication Platforms

As we respond to customer demand and integrate Namecoach into more communication platforms across sectors, it’s becoming clear: nearly every tool that connects people can use Namecoach.

Our near-term product roadmap focuses on delivering more value across these platforms:

  • Deepening our mastery of name pronunciation across languages and accents,
  • Embedding new AI-enabled features that users want across all communication tools,
  • Setting the foundation for broader personalization and Voice AI capabilities.
AI Feature Roadmap. (Forward-looking statements are not guaranteed.)

Powering Tomorrow’s Voice AI Interfaces

While expanding our presence across communication platforms, Namecoach’s proprietary dataset and AI system uniquely enable us to become an indispensable utility within the emerging voice ecosystem. Mispronunciation is becoming a pervasive flaw across voice-driven technology.

And as voice becomes the dominant human-computer interface, Namecoach will be quietly powering personalization everywhere, behind the scenes. We are poised to become the industry standard for names across speech-related infrastructure providers, model orchestrators, and conversational AI platforms:

Beyond Names: A Proven Playbook for Building Iconic Companies

Namecoach is executing a playbook that has consistently built category-defining tech companies:

Solve an overlooked problem exceptionally well, then expand into a broader, indispensable platform.

This strategy has worked across industries where what initially seemed like "just a feature" became the foundation for billion-dollar platforms.

  • Grammarly started with basic spelling and grammar checks — now it powers full written communication assistance.
  • DocuSign started with e-signatures — now it leads the entire digital agreements ecosystem.
  • Calendly started with scheduling — now it drives full meeting workflow automation.
(Valuations for SaaS companies with comparable core product & GTM strategies)

Namecoach owns the name pronunciation layer.

By embedding into communication workflows and AI infrastructure, we are expanding into a much larger market: personalized, culturally intelligent communication for humans and AI.

As we grow, we are unlocking new adjacent opportunities such as:

  • Culturally intelligent prompts (e.g., holiday and etiquette awareness),
  • Speech personalization (accents, dialects, cultural variation),
  • Context and identity aware enhancements for voice agents and human communication.
Namecoach AI making context, culture, and identity aware communication suggestions (in development)

Each new step creates a powerful and defensible flywheel. Our expansion strengthens our data advantage, platform integrations, and user network effects.

Namecoach will become critical infrastructure. As voice-driven and AI-first interfaces become the norm across customer support, sales enablement, healthcare, education, enterprise workflows, and countless other industries, trusted personalization layers like Namecoach won’t just enhance user experiences.

Namecoach is positioned to become the indispensable utility powering things like:

  • AI customer support agents that pronounce names correctly,
  • Sales enablement tools that adapt to client cultural expectations,
  • Enterprise voicebots that build trust, not friction,
  • Healthtech voice interfaces that respect patient identity and dignity.

Owning this critical layer positions for multiple high-value outcomes, including:

  • Acquisition by strategic platforms across communication and Voice AI categories such as Salesforce, Amazon, Microsoft, or others seeking proprietary personalization data and specialized cultural intelligence capabilities,
  • Public offering as we expand into new markets and scale platform ubiquity.

Our model, momentum, and data advantage give us the flexibility to pursue the path that creates the most enduring impact and the greatest value for shareholders.

We Warmly Invite You to Join Our Journey

Namecoach is on a mission to revolutionize how connections are made. We are scaling our impact globally and enabling every interaction to be smoother, more personal, and more culturally aware.

We are a team of innovators from world-renowned organizations, educated at top-tier institutions, and with deep expertise across AI, product innovation, growth strategy, and operations. Our team brings a proven track record of scaling startups and building technology that fosters inclusive human connection.

We are dedicated to proving that technology companies can both do good for the world, and do well for our stakeholders.

This mission is why a powerful group of leading institutional and strategic investors have already joined us on this journey:

Now, we invite you to join us — as we build the category leader for respectful, personalized, AI-enabled communication worldwide. Together, we can create a future where every connection feels more human, more meaningful, and more trusted.


Every name honored.

Every voice understood.

Every connection made stronger.

Technology humanized — at global scale.


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