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Marr Labs

AI-voice agents that are indistinguishable from humans.

Y CombinatorWinter 2024ActiveB2BArtificial IntelligenceConversational AIAI Assistant

What they do

Problem

Businesses spend significant time and money staffing phone-based roles like call handling, scheduling, sales, and support.

Solution

Marr Labs provides human-indistinguishable AI voice agents that can perform virtually any phone-based job at a fraction of the cost of human agents.

Who it's for

Businesses that handle high volumes of inbound and outbound phone calls, including call centers and customer support/sales teams.

Founders

Dave Grannan
Founder

Dave is the co-founder and CEO of Marr Labs. Previously, Dave was the founding CEO of speech recognition company Vlingo that provided speech recognition for the first Siri products and was acquired for $225M by Nuance Communications. Dave was also Chairman of the Board of NLP and speech recognition company Maluuba that was acquired for $160M by Microsoft. Prior to founding Marr, Dave was co-founder and CEO of machine vision company Light, acquired by John Deere.

Han Shu
Founder

Han is the co-founder & CTO of Marr Labs, an AI/ML pioneer and 2X entrepreneur. As co-founder of Vlingo(acquired by Nuance for $225M), he built Speech Recognition & Natural Language Understanding stacks, and supplied ASR to Siri. As co-founder of Wyth(acquired by Airbnb), he developed mobile personal assistant technology for collaborative productivity applications. Han led the ML and AI groups at both Airbnb and DoorDash. Han holds PhD, MEng, and BS degrees from MIT, and 25 patents.

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