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Learning from the best minds driving the Voice AI revolution. Hear their perspectives on the current state and future potential of the generative AI and voice technology, its impact on industries, and the ethical considerations guiding its development. 

This unique gathering brings together trailblazing founders, innovators, engineers and researchers in the field to share their insights, experiences, and visions for the future. Discover the challenges and opportunities that come with building and scaling Voice AI companies.

Paul Ricci - former Chairman and CEO of Nuance

Paul Ricci retired as Chairman and CEO of Nuance in 2018, roles in which he served for nearly two decades. While at Nuance, Paul transformed the company from a $50 million imaging software publisher into a $2 billion

leading provider of conversational speech and AI solutions, solving complex problems in healthcare, telecommunications, automotive and financial services, with 14,000 employees worldwide. Under Paul’s leadership, Nuance developed a healthcare technology business of $1 billion in annual revenue, created a $500 million global provider of customer self-service solutions and built one of the world’s largest automotive software businesses, now an independent public company, Cerence (NASDAQ: CRNC).

More recently, Paul has served as an advisor to Lightspeed Venture Partners and to Warburg Pincus. He has also served on the boards of Personalis, Qualifacts, Intelligent Medical Objects, SOC Telemed and the Innovation Advisory Board of Mass General Brigham. 

Paul holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Stanford University, where he is on the board of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences.

, based in Mountain View. With over 1B meetings transcribed, 

 is the world’s leading tool for meeting transcription, summarization, and collaboration. Using artificial intelligence, Otter generates real-time automated meeting notes, summaries, and other insights from in-person and virtual meetings - turning meetings into accessible, collaborative, and actionable data that can be shared across teams and organizations. The company is backed by early investors in Google, DeepMind, Zoom, and Tesla. Otter is recognized by The WSJ as one of the Top 10 Generative AI Apps in June 2023.

Previously, Sam was the Co-Founder and CEO of Alohar Mobile Inc. which created the world's first mobile location context platform. Alohar was later successfully acquired by Alibaba. Before that, Sam was the lead of Google Map Location Platform & API for four years.

Sam got his Ph.D in EE from Stanford University, specializing in large scale distributed Internet systems. Sam has over 20 patents.

Edith Yeung - General Partner at Race Capital and event organizer and host 

 - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund investing in all things infrastructure. Edith is the seed investor in Solana (has been dubbed 

one of the best venture investments of all time

, RapidAPI, and 60 other amazing startups. 

Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active early-stage fund and incubator which invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies.

Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia Capital - backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk. She frequently speaks on venture capital, women in leadership, China and Silicon Valley technology and investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and commentator on 

Race Capital is an early-stage venture fund focused on investing in exceptional founders who are building market-transforming companies in the data, enterprise, infrastructure, and fintech sectors. Our team are seed investors in Databricks, Solana, 

, and many other great companies. For more information, visit 

The Future of Voice AI with Race Capital, Nuance and Otter.ai

We are thrilled to announce that our new office is finally ready and we would like to invite you to join us for our office warming party. After much hard work and effort, we are eager to show off our new space and celebrate with the people who have supported us along the way.

: Race Capital, 437 Lytton Ave #100, Palo Alto, CA

It will be an opportunity to catch up with old friends, make new connections, and of course, have a great time. Light bites and drinks will be served.

Race Capital: Office Warming Happy Hour (Invite Only)

​Join us for drinks and dinner on June 9th at 6pm! 

Drinks start at 6pm and dinner starts at 7pm. 

Race Capital: Consensus Web3 Dinner 

Join Race Capital and our crew on March 15th at 6pm.

Drinks are on us + meet awesome Web3 founders, builders, and investors. Meet us at the double decker bus. 

Bernard Chan

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