Wispr Flow raises $280 Mn at $2 Bn valuation

•Wispr Flow, a San Francisco-based voice AI startup, raised $280 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures.

•The round valued the company at $2 billion, a near threefold increase from its $700 million valuation a year ago.

•The funding will be used to expand Wispr Flow's product and speech AI capabilities, including its proprietary speech recognition model, Canto.

•The company has over 10,000 business users and is expanding into meeting notes and other workplace applications.