Founder of a listed tool
Scott Stephenson
Named behind 3 listings on Anchor Terminal.
What Scott builds
Deepgram Speech-to-Text (Nova-3, Flux) BB · Speech-to-text
Deepgram's speech-to-text API for recorded audio and live streams, including turn detection for voice agents.
Co-founder and CEO, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Deepgram Text-to-Speech (Aura-2, Flux TTS) BB · Text-to-speech
Deepgram's text-to-speech API for generating spoken audio.
Co-founder and CEO, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Deepgram Voice Agent API B · Conversational voice agents
One WebSocket that runs Deepgram STT (Flux or Nova-3), a managed or bring-your-own LLM and Deepgram or third-party TTS, with turn-taking, barge-in and function calling.
Co-founder and CEO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Adam Sypniewski CTO; leads research and engineering
Backed by
Y Combinator Tiger Global Madrona Citigroup Alkeon Capital AVP In-Q-Tel Wing Venture Capital BlackRock Alumni Ventures Princeville Capital Twilio ServiceNow SAP University of Michigan Columbia University Stanford University
Questions
Who is Scott Stephenson?
Scott Stephenson co-founded Deepgram, a voice AI company, in 2015 and is its CEO. A particle physicist with a PhD from the University of Michigan, he built a lab two miles underground to detect dark matter, and left a postdoctoral research post to found Deepgram.
What does Deepgram make?
Anchor Terminal lists Deepgram Speech-to-Text (Nova-3, Flux), Deepgram Text-to-Speech (Aura-2, Flux TTS) and Deepgram Voice Agent API from Deepgram. Deepgram's speech-to-text API for recorded audio and live streams, including turn detection for voice agents.
Who has invested in Deepgram?
The sources our research read name Y Combinator, Tiger Global, Madrona, Citigroup, Alkeon Capital, AVP, In-Q-Tel, Wing Venture Capital, BlackRock, Alumni Ventures, Princeville Capital, Twilio, ServiceNow, SAP, University of Michigan, Columbia University and Stanford University.
How are Scott's tools graded?
Deepgram Speech-to-Text (Nova-3, Flux) is graded BB, 70.4 out of 100; Deepgram Text-to-Speech (Aura-2, Flux TTS) is graded BB, 72.8 out of 100; Deepgram Voice Agent API is graded B, 68.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (8)
- https://deepgram.com/about
- https://deepgram.com/company/leadership
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-stephenson-/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-sypniewski-32a25982/
- https://deepgram.com/
- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/deepgram
- https://developers.deepgram.com/support
- https://deepgram.com/contact-us
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