RT @ashleevance: New episode on life as a child prodigy and founding @speak with @adhsu .

RT @tbpn: "I went to South Korea and I saw skyscrapers that were filled with English classrooms. It was very clear the country was obsessed….

RT @connorzwick: The day has finally come! @speak is no longer an English language learning app. You can now learn 🇪🇸 Spanish, 🇫🇷French,….

RT @Accel: We’ve been fortunate to partner with @alexandr_wang and the @Scale_AI team since the days when they were working out of @daniel_….

RT @speak: Why Korea? What have we learned from building Speak? @connorzwick joined @Accel's @bquazz to dive into AI-driven language learni….

RT @BloombergTV: "We see companies that are gaining real traction and driving real value both in enterprise and consumer." Matt Weigand of….

RT @paulg: These guys were among the earliest of all the startups we've funded to understand what AI was going to make possible, and they h….

RT @technology: OpenAI-Backed Language Tutor Startup Doubles Value to $1 Billion

RT @TechCrunch: OpenAI-backed Speak raises $78M at $1B valuation to help users learn languages by talking out loud

4/4 As Speak expands globally in 2025, it's set to make the world more fluent - and we couldn’t be more excited to partner with @connorzwick and @adhsu, alongside our friends at @openai. Check out our blog to learn more #AccelFamily

3/4 AI can recreate the nuanced, interactive experience of talking with a native speaker, tailoring lessons to each learner’s needs. @speakeasy_labs is at the forefront of this revolution. With 10M+ downloads and 1B+ sentences spoken, Speak is changing lives through fluency.

2/4 Language learning has always been a challenge. From ancient inscriptions to CD-ROMs, we've sought fluency for millennia. The Internet and smartphones revolutionized access to content, but spoken fluency remains elusive. Enter AI: the third paradigm shift in language learning.

1/4 Today, I’m excited to announce that @Accel has led @speakeasy_labs Series C. Language learning reflects one of the most compelling applications of consumer AI we’ve seen yet, and Speak is poised to define the category.

RT @caseyaylward: 1/ A few months back, some friends from the GPU Mode (fka CUDA Mode) Discord server and I started talking about bringing….

RT @MiguelKatz: 1/ It’s 2012, ServiceNow is on the brink of IPO. Kevin Haverty, their newest sales leader, needs to close a million dollar….

RT @Accel: Explore 40 defining moments in tech over the last 40 years: #Accel40Years

RT @Accel: At @astral_sh, @charliermarsh and the team have ambitious plans to build high-performance tools for Python developers. With Ruff….

RT @charliermarsh: I've started a company, Astral, to continue building high-performance developer tools for the Python ecosystem. We're g….

RT @josemorgado: What a story: 33yo Matija Pecotic, who has a full-time job as the Director of Capital Markets for a real estate investment….

RT @schrockn: 1/ We at @dagster have a Python monorepo. About 500K lines of code and 70 python packages. Not big compared to bigco, but big….