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The voice interface replacing your keyboard
Willow has raised $176.5M across 8 funding rounds.
Key people at Willow.
Willow was founded in 2025 by Allan Guo (Founder).
Willow has raised $176.5M in total across 8 funding rounds.
Willow is an AI dictation app that lets you type with your voice. Built to 4x the productivity of anyone spending too much time on email, docs, and AI prompting workflows.
We’re Mac-only for now. You can try it free at WillowVoice.com
Key people at Willow.
Willow has raised $176.5M across 8 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $500K Seed in September 2024.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2024 | $500K Seed | — | Y Combinator | Announced |
| Dec 21, 2022 | $28.1M Venture Round | — | Nicholas Moore, RIC Clark, IN Q TEL, Perennial Value Management, VGI Partners | Announced |
| Sep 10, 2021 | $42.8M Series A Plus | — | Nicholas Moore, RIC Clark, Perennial Value Management | Announced |
| Apr 23, 2021 | $26.8M Series C Plus | Endeavour Vision | Gaingels, Logos Capital, NEA, Pura Vida Investments, Purple Arch Ventures | Announced |
| Sep 22, 2020 | $55M Venture Round | Meritech Capital Partners, Josh Makower | Lightstone Ventures, Perceptive Advisors | Announced |
| Dec 21, 2019 | $20M Venture Round | Lightstone Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Josh Makower | — | Announced |
| Mar 1, 2019 | $300K Seed | — | NCT Ventures | Announced |
| Jul 1, 2018 | $3M Seed | — | FirstMark Capital, FJ Labs, Peterson Partners, Peterson Ventures, Revolution Ventures, Spark Capital, Matt Coffin | Announced |
Willow was founded in 2025 by Allan Guo (Founder).
Willow has raised $176.5M in total across 8 funding rounds.
Willow's investors include Y Combinator, Nicholas Moore, Ric Clark, In-Q-Tel, Perennial Value Management, VGI Partners, Endeavour Vision, Gaingels, Logos Capital, NEA, Pura Vida Investments, Purple Arch Ventures.
Willow is an AI-powered voice dictation app designed to replace traditional typing by enabling users to write anywhere on their computer using voice. It supports over 100 languages and integrates seamlessly across all iOS and Mac applications, including messaging, email, productivity, and AI prompting workflows. The product targets mobile professionals and heavy typists who seek to boost productivity by speaking instead of typing, offering a hybrid voice-text input that allows instant editing without switching modes. This approach addresses the common frustrations of earlier voice-to-text tools by combining speed, accuracy, and contextual formatting, helping users work up to four times faster[1][2][3][4].
Willow was founded by Allan Guo and Lawrence Liu, who identified the gap in voice interfaces that were either inaccurate or cumbersome to use. The idea emerged from the insight that voice technology had not yet reached the level of precision and naturalness needed to replace keyboards effectively. Instead of building another AI notetaker, they focused on creating a dictation tool that works universally across applications with minimal setup. Early traction came from users who replaced nearly all their typing with Willow’s voice dictation due to its superior accuracy and ease of use compared to built-in dictation systems[1][2][3].
Willow rides the growing trend of voice interfaces and AI-powered productivity tools, capitalizing on advances in natural language processing and speech recognition. The timing is favorable due to increasing remote work, mobile computing, and the need for faster, more natural human-computer interaction. Market forces such as the saturation of AI notetaking apps and the limitations of existing voice-to-text solutions create a strong demand for a versatile, accurate, and easy-to-use dictation tool. Willow’s approach of blending voice input with editable text bridges the gap between speed and precision, influencing the broader ecosystem by setting new standards for voice-driven workflows and potentially paving the way for voice as a primary computer interface[1][2][3].
Willow is poised to expand beyond the Apple ecosystem with upcoming support for Windows and Android, which will significantly increase its market reach. Future trends shaping its journey include deeper personalization to reduce manual edits, enhanced AI models for contextual understanding, and broader adoption of voice-led user interfaces. As voice technology matures, Willow’s influence may grow from a productivity tool to a fundamental interface layer controlling computers, aligning with visionary predictions about the future of human-computer interaction. Its mission to make voice the default input method could redefine how professionals communicate and create digitally[2][3][4].