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SoundHound AI, Inc. provides independent voice artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that enables businesses across the automotive, TV, IoT, and customer service industries to deliver conversational experiences to customers in the United States, Korea, France, Japan, Germany, and internationally. The company offers Houndify platform, which provides a suite of Houndify tools to help brands build conversational voice assistants, such as Application Programming Interfaces (API) for text and voice queries, support for custom commands, extensive library of content domains, inclusive software development kit platforms, collaboration capabilities, diagnostic tools, and built-in analytics; SoundHound Chat AI, a voice assistant with integrated generative AI that integrates with knowledge domains, pulling real-time data, such as weather, sports, stocks, flight status, restaurants, and other data; and SoundHound Smart Answering, which offers customer establishments the option to build an easy to use custom AI-powered voice assistant. It also provides CaiNET software that uses machine learning to enhance how domains work together to handle complex queries; CaiLAN software that arbitrates responses, so users get answers from the right domain; Dynamic Interaction, a real-time multimodal customer service interface; Smart Ordering, which offers an easy-to-understand voice assistant for restaurants; automatic speech recognition; natural language understanding; wake words; custom domains; text-to-speech; Employee Assist; and edge and cloud connectivity, which includes embedded voice solutions. In addition, the company offers Amelia Platform, which builds AI agents for enterprises; Chat AI for Automotive; Dynamic Drive-Thru for GenAI; Voice Commerce, which connects drivers and merchants with Voice AI; Autonomics Platform; Custom Voice AI Solutions; Voice AI Platform; and SoundHound Music App. SoundHound AI, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
5-year financial trends. Figures in USD millions.
Latest fiscal year: 2025
Year-by-year revenue, profitability, and cash flow (USD millions, last 10 years)
| Year | Revenue | EBITDA | Net Profit | FCF | ROE | Rev Growth 1Y | NP Growth 1Y |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $169M | $28M | $-14M | $-103M | -3.0% | 99.4% | -96.0% |
| 2024 | $85M | $-329M | $-351M | $-110M | -192.0% | 84.6% | 294.3% |
| 2023 | $46M | $-63M | $-89M | $-69M | -636.1% | 47.4% | -23.8% |
| 2022 | $31M | $-100M | $-117M | $-95M | 319.2% | - | - |
| 2021 | - | - |
Income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow as reported
Consolidated Figures in USD Millions.
| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Revenue | - | 31.13 | 45.87 | 84.69 | 168.92 |
| Operating Revenue | - | 31.13 | 45.87 | 84.69 | 168.92 |
| Cost Of Revenue | - | 9.60 | 11.31 | 43.31 | 97.37 |
| Gross Profit | - | 21.53 | 34.57 | 41.38 | 71.55 |
| Operating Expense | - | 127.20 | 98.62 | 160.07 | 257.95 |
| Research And Development | - | 76.39 | 51.44 | 70.56 | 98.25 |
| Selling General And Administration | - | 50.81 | 47.18 | 82.40 | 143.83 |
| Total Expenses | - | 136.80 | 109.92 | 203.38 | 355.32 |
| Operating Income | - | -105.67 | -64.05 | -118.68 | -186.40 |
| Total Operating Income As Reported | - | -105.67 | -68.61 | -341.35 | -23.27 |
| EBITDA | - | -99.70 | -62.63 | -329.09 | 28.43 |
| Normalized EBITDA | - | -98.02 | -55.34 | -92.02 | -139.37 |
| EBIT | - | -106.93 | -68.29 | -347.76 | -8.60 |
| Interest Income | - | 0.39 | 2.87 | 8.37 | 9.80 |
| Interest Expense | - | 6.89 | 16.73 | 12.17 | 0.67 |
| Net Interest Income | - | -6.50 | -13.87 | -3.80 | 9.13 |
| Other Non Operating Income Expenses | - | 0.03 | 0.19 | -0.37 | 0.19 |
| Other Income Expense | - | -1.65 | -7.10 | -237.45 | 168 |
| Interest Income Non Operating | - | 0.39 | 2.87 | 8.37 | 9.80 |
| Interest Expense Non Operating | - | 6.89 | 16.73 | 12.17 | 0.67 |
| Net Non Operating Interest Income Expense | - | -6.50 | -13.87 | -3.80 | 9.13 |
| Pretax Income | - | -113.82 | -85.02 | -359.93 | -9.27 |
| Tax Provision | - | 2.89 | 3.91 | -9.25 | 4.73 |
| Tax Rate For Calcs | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tax Effect Of Unusual Items | - | -0.35 | -1.53 | -6.16 | 35.24 |
| Net Income Continuous Operations | - | -116.71 | -88.94 | -350.68 | -14.01 |
| Net Income From Continuing And Discontinued Operation | - | -116.71 | -88.94 | -350.68 | -14.01 |
| Net Income From Continuing Operation Net Minority Interest | - | -116.71 | -88.94 | -350.68 | -14.01 |
| Net Income | - | -116.71 | -88.94 | -350.68 | -14.01 |
| Net Income Common Stockholders | - | -116.71 | -91.71 | -351.10 | -14.01 |
| Net Income Including Noncontrolling Interests | - | -116.71 | -88.94 | -350.68 | -14.01 |
| Normalized Income | - | -115.39 | -83.17 | -119.77 | -146.57 |
| Diluted NI Availto Com Stockholders | - | -116.71 | -91.71 | -351.10 | -113.52 |
| Basic Average Shares | - | 157.32 | 229.26 | 338.46 | 405.42 |
| Diluted Average Shares | - | 157.32 | 229.26 | 338.46 | 409.46 |
| Reconciled Depreciation | - | 7.23 | 5.66 | 18.67 | 37.04 |
| Reconciled Cost Of Revenue | - | 2.37 | 5.65 | 31.76 | 76.20 |
| Total Unusual Items | - | -1.68 | -7.30 | -237.08 | 167.80 |
| Total Unusual Items Excluding Goodwill | - | -1.68 | -7.30 | -237.08 | 167.80 |
| Preferred Stock Dividends | - | - | 2.77 | 0.42 | - |
| Special Income Charges | - | 0 | -5.39 | -237.08 | 163.13 |
| Other Special Charges | - | - | 0.84 | 15.63 | - |
| Restructuring And Mergern Acquisition | - | 0 | 4.56 | 221.45 | -163.13 |
| Gain On Sale Of Security | -4.92 | -1.68 | -1.90 | - | 4.68 |
| Depreciation Amortization Depletion Income Statement | - | 0 | 0 | 7.12 | 15.87 |
| Depreciation And Amortization In Income Statement | - | 0 | 0 | 7.12 | 15.87 |
| General And Administrative Expense | - | 30.44 | 28.28 | 53.27 | 82.19 |
| Other Gand A | - | 30.44 | 28.28 | 53.27 | 82.19 |
| Selling And Marketing Expense | - | 20.37 | 18.89 | 29.13 | 61.64 |
| Average Dilution Earnings | - | - | - | - | -99.51 |
| Amortization | - | 0 | 0 | 7.12 | 15.87 |
| Amortization Of Intangibles Income Statement | - | 0 | 0 | 7.12 | 15.87 |
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| SoundHound AI, Inc.this co. | SOUN | $3.5B | -247.50 | 7.47 | -3.0% | 113.33 |
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| Peer Median | - | 16.99 | 8.41 | 4.4% | 24.22 | |