Invest in Namecoach

Namecoach is an AI-powered platform that delivers accurate audio name pronunciations, ensuring names are pronounced correctly with ease— every time. 

Backed by the same investors as OpenAI, Facebook, Oura Ring and Airbnb, Namecoach is setting a new standard for AI-enhanced communication within a $100B AI voice market. Fortune 500 companies and top educational institutions like Stanford trust Namecoach to build meaningful social rapport and break barriers with their organizations, and we’re just getting started. 

And this is just in the United States. With 80% of names having multiple pronunciations, it’s no surprise they’re often said wrong. The result? Trust vanishes in a single syllable.

Research from MIT shows that individuals whose names are consistently mispronounced experience lower confidence and decreased participation, key drivers of productivity and success.

Mispronounced names aren’t just a momentary slip - in educational environments, getting a name wrong has been shown to alienate students, leading to disengagement and poorer learning outcomes. In business, it translates to lost opportunities, weakened rapport, and reduced team cohesion. 

Current solutions are not designed for multicultural environments. Today’s Voice AI systems struggle with non-English languages, dialects, and mixed-language contexts like Spanglish. They struggle not just with names but also with regional accents, cultural nuances, and delivering appropriate responses, all due to limited contextual understanding.

 Our platform helps users across business and educational settings foster stronger connections and create a more welcoming environment—one name at a time.

Using a combination of user-verified audio and the world’s largest database of name pronunciations, our proprietary AI-based system analyzes factors such as nationality, ethnicity, gender, and location to recommend the most likely pronunciation—even for names with multiple variations. This allows us to deliver personalized, confident Voice AI pronunciations wherever and whenever they’re needed.

Namecoach’s flexible API integrates seamlessly into the applications people use everyday. With little to no onboarding required, organizations can embed Namecoach effortlessly into existing workflows, creating natural network effects as more users adopt the platform and contribute to its growing database of accurate name pronunciations.

Namecoach remains accessible throughout multiple interactions—whether in email threads, virtual meetings, cold calls or large-scale events such as client presentations, conferences or graduations—ensuring accurate name pronunciation and fostering stronger relationships at every step.

We’re a team of innovators from world-renowned organizations educated at top tier institutions. With expertise in AI, product innovation, growth strategy, and operations, we bring a proven track record scaling startups and building technology that fosters inclusive human connection.

Voice AI leverages verbal commands to respond to human inquiries in natural, conversational language. By solving the complex challenge of the $11B name pronunciation market, our continuously learning AI-based system can also address broader issues in the exploding $100B Voice AI market, such as improving accuracy with accents and dialects.

As we continue developing a best-in-class dataset uniquely specialized in names, cultural nuances, and accents, we are positioned to unlock massive opportunities created by critical gaps in personalizing Voice AI and enabling more human-like, culturally aware interactions.

The growing importance of personalization in professional and academic interactions is driving demand for AI-powered solutions. A global shift to hybrid and remote work has further highlighted the need for seamless, precise communication across digital platforms. With 2.83 million people employed in U.S. call centers alone, many interactions are global, spanning different languages and alphabets, underscoring the need for culturally aware tools.

As a result, institutions and businesses are investing more in tools to strengthen connections, with the employee engagement software market projected to reach $1.9 billion and customer engagement solutions reaching $23.1 billion by 2030. 

Our annual B2B SaaS subscriptions serve Higher Education institutions, K12 districts, and Enterprise clients with flexible, scalable solutions tailored to their needs. A key focus in 2025 will be Namecoach for Events, our groundbreaking tool that virtually guarantees 100% accuracy in name pronunciation at graduation ceremonies, setting the new standard for name recognition world-wide while supporting schools using everything from live name reading to AI synthesized audio. 

While direct B2B sales have fueled our revenue growth to date, Namecoach is uniquely positioned to tap into massive product-led growth opportunities—the hallmark of leading tech companies. Inspired by Grammarly’s immensely successful strategy, we’re starting to promote more widespread direct-to-consumer adoption through free tools like our Chrome extension, pronunciation search site, and personal Namebadges, laying the foundation for 10x revenue acceleration through freemium models. 

Our API supports a developer-led approach, akin to Twilio’s, enabling our functionality to be embedded into third-party platforms such as sales-enablement tools and learning management platforms. This drives usage-based revenue while upselling our B2B products. Additionally, our proprietary pronunciation system offers licensing opportunities for LLM and Voice AI developers, helping them humanize their AI solutions.

Namecoach is poised to double its average contract value (ACV) and scale revenue by capitalizing on key opportunities in the higher education and corporate markets, fueling growth to $10M ARR within 24 months and laying the groundwork for long-term hyper-growth.

Our freemium model is initially projected to convert up to 10% of institutions using the platform of a key EdTech titan with whom Namecoach is currently finalizing a major product partnership, generating up to $14.4M incremental ARR over 3 years.

Namecoach is focused on leveraging partnerships, launching innovative products, and integrating the latest advances in AI to drive scalable growth. Our mission is to scale this impact globally, making every interaction smooth, personal, and warm. 

By leveraging our seamless integrations, AI-powered network effects, and platform ubiquity, Namecoach is positioned for a high-value exit. Potential outcomes include acquisition by major players like Salesforce, Amazon, or Microsoft, who would benefit from our proprietary data and indispensable workflow tools, or a public offering as we scale into new markets and offerings.

Our focused entry into name pronunciation creates a scalable wedge to expand into broader communication solutions, making Namecoach a compelling long-term value for investors. By leveraging our unique expertise and dataset specialized for names, speech-related cultural nuance, and accents, Namecoach will add value to the rapidly growing Voice AI and Conversational AI space estimated to be a $100B opportunity by 2032.

Namecoach is on a mission to revolutionize how connections are made. We’ve already gained the trust of top tier higher education institutions and Fortune 500s like Stanford, Salesforce, and Travelers, as well as leading VCs including Founders Fund, Impact America Fund, and Stanford-StartX. 

Now, you’re invited to invest as we build a category leader in communication enablement software with patented Voice AI algorithms and one of the most comprehensive datasets of names and pronunciations in the world.

Together, we can create a future where more personal, respectful, meaningful communication is easier than ever.