[Funding Alert] Accel Partners and Ideaspring Capital invest Rs 12.5 Cr in Mihup
30 April 2019 7:20 AM IST
Mihup is building an AI-enabled speech recognition platform for vernacular languages. The service is currently available in three languages, and the startup will use the new funds to fully supoort the next eight most-spoken Indian languages.
![[Funding Alert] Accel Partners and Ideaspring Capital invest Rs 12.5 Cr in Mihup](https://democracynewslive.com/h-upload/uid/nDG8U6iN55IePUEbCN57xdTGM7DwAKNR1082443.jpg "[Funding Alert] Accel Partners and Ideaspring Capital invest Rs 12.5 Cr in Mihup")
- Kolkata-based regional voice platform Mihup today announced that it had raised Rs 12.5 crore in Series A funding from Accel Partners and Ideaspring Capital.
- Speaking on the development, Biplab Chakraborty, Co founder and COO, said,"The latest funding will help us to further our ambition of adding more Indian languages into our engine.
- Our immediate aim is to fully support the next eight most-spoken Indian languages."Established in 2016 by Biplab Chakraborty, Sandipan Chattopadhyay, Sandipan Mandal, and Tapan Barman, Mihup is building an AI-enabled speech recognition platform for vernacular languages.
- Sandipan Chattopadhyay, Co-founder of MiHup, who was previously the CTO at Justdial, stated,"Voice and video are going to define the next phase of digitisation of India.
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