Volley is the leading creator of voice AI games for smart speakers, connected TVs and mobile platforms. Using conversational AI, Volley reinvented the traditional game night, making games that can be played using only your voice. Some of our top products include: Song Quiz, Jeopardy!, Question of the Day, The Price is Right and Wheel of Fortune.
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We're hiring! With our recent $55M Series C we're growing the team and hiring for several new roles across the company - from engineering to people, design to data. https://lnkd.in/eY9XsN4y If you're interested in - or just want to learn more - about any of the roles, please reach out. I'd welcome the opportunity to help build a connection between you and Volley. #job, #hiring, #jobseekers, #employment
Meet Shaan! A few weeks ago, his grandma popped by the office to ask if her 10 year old game-loving grandson could come tour the Volley offices. After learning that he has been taking coding classes for a year, we had to say yes! Shaan toured the office, demoed a product, learned some code and walked away with his own Echo device! Shaan's feedback: "If you get to play smash during lunchtime, I think this is what I want to do for a career!" Thank you to Shaan's grandma for permission to share this post. We're seeing a Volley internship in his future!
We're so happy you joined us, Keiyana! 🌈 Let’s build something great together! If you're interested in joining us, check out our career page: https://lnkd.in/eGYMd2pi
Wanna join a #startup, and break into #tech? 🌈 This month, I was invited to come tour the Volley HQ office in San Francisco! They hosted a #Pride Mixer event, and I learned so much about the culture and most importantly, I learned more about how #jobseekers in this market can join this fast growing #AI start up. 💡 Check out their career site, and if you don’t see any roles of interest posted right now… you can use their “Resume Drop” link to add your #resume for future consideration as the company continues to grow and source talent. https://lnkd.in/gPQg-YaZ 👈🏾 The Head of Recruiting Adrienne Hatter is also phenomenal, and a great #hiring point of contact if you find a role of interest! 🙌🏾 Thank you for having us Volley !🥳 Happy Pride! 🌈🌈🌈🫶🏾 #DEIB #InclusionMatters #Hiring #UXDesign #SWE #careertips #jobsearchtips
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We're hiring! With our recent $55M Series C we're growing the team and hiring for several new roles across the company - from engineering to people, design to data. https://lnkd.in/eY9XsN4y If you're interested in - or just want to learn more - about any of the roles, please reach out. I'd welcome the opportunity to help build a connection between you and Volley. #job, #hiring, #jobseekers, #employment
Volley's Co-Founder and CEO Max Child recently sat down with Alexandra Takei to discuss the future of gaming, innovations in voice tech, and what’s next for our company. Check out the link below to listen!
🗣 Do you play mouse & keyboard or controller? Are you into motion sensors or own hardware for Guitar Hero? Games have spanned a variety of input controls, but one of the oldest is our voice. Played Marco Polo in the pool? Sang Karaoke at your local bar? These are all examples of voice games and Max Child, CEO and Co-Founder at Volley who recently raised a $55M Series C co-led by Lightspeed and M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund, joins me on air to talk about voice games in video games. 🏋♂️ Although there are few “breakout hits” in voice so far, here are some heavy hitters: Shout to Jump — a platformer, where you literally, shout into your phone, to jump Question of the Day — trivia game on Amazon Alexa Song Quiz — music trivia for Amazon Alexa (acquired by Volley) Voice has had technical hurdles in the past across speech recognition, speed of conversation, and fundamental linguistic issues in the ability to interpret intent. But just like Nvidia’s graphics cards supercharged 3D storytelling and better motion feedback and haptics turned novelties like the Sony Eye Toy into the Wii and VR, advancements in AI are allowing the merging of speech recognition and LLMs (having audio and text in one system) that are changing future outlook of the voice games landscape. 🔊 We discuss: The history of voice games Platforms for voice games Technology that makes voice games fly The Volley portfolio and Volley’s core user base and demo The business of voice (business models, retention, platform mix, and top-end monetization) Listen to the full episode on Naavik's channels on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube, linked in the comments. If you’re looking to learn more about why Lightspeed and Microsoft invested, give Lightspeed's blog post on the fundraise a read: https://lnkd.in/e2Ght8Es. Thanks to Gaby Caliendo for helping us put this together. #gaming #voice
We’re on the hunt for talented individuals to join us! The Core Technology team at Volley is looking for an enthusiastic Staff Software Engineer with deep expertise in building game engines, app platforms, or SDKs. This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to develop a multi-platform game engine for voice-controlled AI games. If you’re ready to make an impact, apply here: https://lnkd.in/eHWFAnJV
Volley is hiring! 🚀 We just raised a $55M Series C and our mighty team based in San Francisco needs to grow to bring even more high-quality voice game experiences to TVs, Alexa devices, and beyond. Check out our job postings as we continue to open multiple roles in our Product, Engineering, Data, Growth, and Operations teams to propel us forward. Our goal at Volley is to have fun making entertainment—if this resonates with you, please join us! https://lnkd.in/eGYMd2pi
Volley is thrilled to announce our $55M Series C funding round, co-led by M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund and Lightspeed, with participation from Causeway, Amazon Alexa Fund, BITKRAFT Ventures, Y Combinator and others. With this latest round of funding, we can accelerate our development of new voice-controlled, AI-powered games. Behind the scenes, we use speech recognition, natural language processing, large language models, and speech synthesis to create seamless, simple, joyful entertainment. The technology melts away so that players can bond with friends and family. Read more about our recent fundraise here: https://lnkd.in/eBC2fEdP
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🎤 Honey, wake up! Volley just raised a $55M Series C, co-led by M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund and Lightspeed! General Catalyst, Causeway, Amazon, BITKRAFT Ventures, Y Combinator, and others joined the round. 📈 To our knowledge, Volley has built not only the undisputed market leader in AI voice games—but also the highest-grossing AI-powered games company! Their games have now been played in over 30 million homes. 🤖 Countering what seems to be the ‘2024 narrative of generative AI’ for startups to pick either AI or revenue, Volley shows you can have both—one of the many reasons for this latest oversubscribed raise. 🎮 Your voice is the game controller! Volley's games are built on a proprietary stack integrating four rapidly evolving AI technologies: speech recognition, natural language processing, LLM-powered content generation, and speech synthesis. 🏄🏼♀️ Founded in 2018, the team was certainly ahead of the AI wave. Recent GPT-4o and Gemini announcements introduce exciting new avenues for Volley's voice-based game experiences. 🎳 Popular Volley games include Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, 20 Questions, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire—available on smart speakers (e.g., Amazon Alexa), smart TVs (e.g., Fire and Roku), and mobile devices. 📢 Exclusive feature of the raise in The Information this morning, with some inside scoop on revenue traction: https://lnkd.in/gexysT_n 🌉 The Volley office is located in the heart of the beautiful Hayes Valley neighborhood in San Francisco. We're calling engineers, product builders, and beyond to take a look at job postings at https://lnkd.in/gKei6a2d. 🫱🏽🫲🏽 At Lightspeed, we're excited to triple down after leading the Series A in 2020 and co-leading the Series B in 2022. I'm honored to support co-founders Max Child and James Wilsterman as a board member. ✒️ We wrote about the investment in detail in our blog: https://lnkd.in/gSfF9vSg 📰 Selected Coverage: Axios: https://lnkd.in/gWqZxt2B Axios Pro Rata: https://lnkd.in/gmhv-hMs Ben's Bites: https://lnkd.in/grTyW2Tu Game Developer: https://lnkd.in/gBFY9_yt Game File: https://lnkd.in/gecR4jrA GamesBeat: https://lnkd.in/g57manBM Gamesindustry: https://lnkd.in/gsSnChMp Lightspeed: https://lnkd.in/gSfF9vSg Lore: https://lnkd.in/gF3Mpc9D Microsoft: https://lnkd.in/gCevkauc Naavik: https://lnkd.in/gNvkxx5f Naavik Podcast: https://lnkd.in/gAn_4Nzr The Information: https://lnkd.in/gexysT_n The Neuron: https://lnkd.in/gNf65aV4 VentureBeat: https://lnkd.in/g5Dy3ceB Volley: https://lnkd.in/gTkVKDsd cc: Jeremy Liew, Nicole Quinn, Michael Mignano, Alex Taussig, Faraz Fatemi #gaming #generativeai #voiceai #venturefunding #venturecapital #stanfordgsb
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Congratulations to the Newcomer and Volley teams on a successful Cerebral Valley AI Summit, this time in its inaugural New York debut! 🗽 Sapphire kicked off the Summit with a Steering Committee dinner, co-hosted with the conference organizers and Latham & Watkins, bringing together founders shaping the future of AI applications and infrastructure, investors backing this innovation, and reporters covering the industry. ✨ The room was buzzing with thoughtful conversation from founders, CEOs, and AI execs from companies like Corti, Crate, Crusoe, Databricks, Etched, Fivetran, Forethought, Lepton AI, Nomic AI, OctoAI, Ramp, Recraft, and more. Thank you to Eric Newcomer and his team for partnering with us! 💡The summit’s key takeaway was loud and clear: Now is the time to build AI applications. Don’t wait for foundation models to get smarter—start now. For a full Summit recap, check out the Download from CVNY by Eric Newcomer, Madeline Renbarger and Charlotte Ehrlich, and make sure you subscribe for updates about the next Cerebral Valley 👇 ⏪https://lnkd.in/gDnQ9Utd 📥 https://www.newcomer.co/ Cc: Nino Marakovic, Rajeev Dham, Cathy Gao, Casber Wang, & Tori (Thompson) Robertson #VentureCapital #CerebralValley #AI