Nuance Communications Overview

  • Year Founded
  • 1992

Year Founded

  • Status
  • Acquired/​Merged

  • Employees
  • 9,067

Employees

  • Latest Deal Type
  • M&A

  • Financing Rounds
  • 27

  • Investments
  • 73

Nuance Communications General Information

Description

Developer of imaging and speech technologies designed to transform the way to work, connect and interact with each other. The company offers customer engagement, speech recognition, digital messaging and intelligent engagement services to healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, retail and government sectors.

Contact Information

Website
www.nuance.com
Formerly Known As
Kurzweil Computer Products, Xerox Imaging Systems, ScanSoft, Visioneer Inc, Visioneer
Ownership Status
Acquired/Merged
(Operating Subsidiary)
Financing Status
Corporate Backed or Acquired
Corporate Office
  • 1 Wayside Road
  • Burlington, MA 01803
  • United States
+1 (781)
Primary Industry
Business/Productivity Software
Other Industries
Other Healthcare Technology Systems
Parent Company
Vertical(s)
SaaS, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, TMT, FinTech
Former Stock Listing
NUAN
Corporate Office
  • 1 Wayside Road
  • Burlington, MA 01803
  • United States
+1 (781)

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Nuance Communications Valuation & Funding

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Nuance Communications Comparisons

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Employees
Total Raised
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Developer of imaging and speech technologies designed to transform the way to work, connect and interact with each other
Business/Productivity Software
Burlington, MA
9,067 As of 2023

Menlo Park, CA
 

San Francisco, CA
 
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Nuance Communications Competitors (21)

One of Nuance Communications’s 21 competitors is Genesys, a Private Equity-Backed company based in Menlo Park, CA.

Company Name Financing Status Location Employees Total Raised Last Financing Date/Type Last Financing Amount
Genesys Private Equity-Backed Menlo Park, CA
Salesforce Formerly VC-backed San Francisco, CA
Streamline Health Solutions Formerly VC-backed Alpharetta, GA
Directly Venture Capital-Backed San Francisco, CA
nVoq Venture Capital-Backed Boulder, CO
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Nuance Communications Patents

Nuance Communications Recent Patent Activity

Publication ID Patent Title Status First Filing Date Technology (CPC) Citations
US-20240046683-A1 Interactive voice response systems having image analysis Pending 02-Aug-2022
US-20240038225-A1 Gestural prompting based on conversational artificial intelligence Pending 26-Jul-2022
US-20230267944-A1 Method for neural beamforming, channel shortening and noise reduction Active 18-Feb-2022
US-12165668-B2 Method for neural beamforming, channel shortening and noise reduction Active 18-Feb-2022
EP-4227938-A1 Automatic canonicalization in a semantic tagger and speech-to-text pipeline Inactive 09-Feb-2022 G06F40/30
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Nuance Communications Signals

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Nuance Communications Former Investors

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Nuance Communications Investments & Acquisitions (73)

Nuance Communications’s most recent deal was a Merger/Acquisition with Saykara. The deal was made on 28-Jan-2021.

Company Name Deal Date Deal Type Deal Size Industry Lead Partner
Saykara 28-Jan-2021 Merger/Acquisition Enterprise Systems (Healthcare)
Vincari 16-Jul-2019 Merger/Acquisition Medical Records Systems
Freewave Technologies 24-Aug-2018 Merger/Acquisition Wireless Communications Equipment
Voicebox 18-May-2018 Merger/Acquisition Business/Productivity Software
iScribes 01-Dec-2017 Merger/Acquisition Medical Records Systems
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Nuance Communications Exits (7)

Nuance Communications’s most recent exit was on 27-Oct-2016 from Agnitio. The exit was categorized as .

Company Name Exit Date Exit Type Exit Size Status Buyers
Agnitio 27-Oct-2016 Completed
Regenerys 31-Mar-2016 Completed
  • 2 buyers
Gamgee 25-Nov-2014 Completed
Swype (Financial Software) 08-Oct-2011 Completed
NetByTel 26-Jun-2001 Early Stage VC Completed
  • 6 buyers
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Affiliates

Subsidiaries (6)

Name Industry Location Year Founded
MCarbon Tech Innovation Gurgaon, India 2008
Swype (Financial Software) Miami, FL 2002
Voice Signal Technologies Burlington, MA 1995
Caere Corporation Burlington, MA 1989
Viecore Federal Systems Division Burlington, MA 1985
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Nuance Communications FAQs

  • When was Nuance Communications founded?

    Nuance Communications was founded in 1992.

  • Where is Nuance Communications headquartered?

    Nuance Communications is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

  • What is the size of Nuance Communications?

    Nuance Communications has 9,067 total employees.

  • What industry is Nuance Communications in?

    Nuance Communications’s primary industry is Business/Productivity Software.

  • Is Nuance Communications a private or public company?

    Nuance Communications is a Private company.

  • What is the current valuation of Nuance Communications?

    The current valuation of Nuance Communications is .

  • What is Nuance Communications’s current revenue?

    The current revenue for Nuance Communications is .

  • How much funding has Nuance Communications raised over time?

    Nuance Communications has raised $1.81B.

  • Who are Nuance Communications’s investors?

    8VC, Alloy Ventures, Artiman Ventures, Asset Management Finance, and Asset Management Ventures are 5 of 26 investors who have invested in Nuance Communications.

  • Who are Nuance Communications’s competitors?

    Genesys, Salesforce, Streamline Health Solutions, Directly, and nVoq are some of the 21 competitors of Nuance Communications.

  • When was Nuance Communications acquired?

    Nuance Communications was acquired on 04-Mar-2022.

  • Who acquired Nuance Communications?

    Nuance Communications was acquired by Microsoft.

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