Mobvoi

Mobvoi
Company typePrivate
Industry
FoundedOctober 1, 2012; 11 years ago (2012-10-01), in Beijing, China.
Founders
  • Zhifei Li
  • Yuanyuan Li (Co-Founder)
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Zhifei Li (Founder & CEO)
  • Yuanyuan Li (Co-Founder)
  • Mike Lei (CTO)
  • Mei-Yuh Hwang (VP. of Engineering)
Products
  • Chumenwenwen Mobile Voice Search
  • TicAuto
  • TicMirror and TicEye
  • TicWatch
  • TicPods
Websitewww.mobvoi.com

Mobvoi Information Technology Company Limited (simplified Chinese: 出门问问; traditional Chinese: 出門問問; pinyin: Chūmén Wènwèn) is a technological company headquartered in Beijing, China that sells and develops consumer electronics and Chinese voice recognition, natural language processing, and vertical search technology in-house.[1]

The core team members include ex-Googlers, AI experts, former Nokia employees, engineers and researchers from top universities such as Johns Hopkins, Harvard, MIT, Cambridge, and Tsinghua or top-tier Internet companies such as Yahoo Beijing, Baidu, Tencent, etc. Since inception, Mobvoi has raised 5 rounds of funding led by Sequoia Capital, ZhenFund, SIG, Perfect Optronics Ltd (HK listed), GoerTek (A- Share listed) and Google with total fundraising amount of US$75 million.[2]

  1. ^ "Google Invests in Chinese Search-and-Smartwatch Startup". Wall Street Journal. October 20, 2015. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  2. ^ Kharpal, Arjun (October 20, 2015). "Google dipping toe in China with this investment". CNBC. Retrieved November 7, 2016.