MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 22, 2025--
Otter.ai, the leading AI meeting agent tool, announced a landmark year of achievements that have established the company as the definitive corporate knowledge base for the enterprise. From crossing $100 million in ARR to launching the industry's first AI Meeting Agent suite, 2025 marks Otter.ai's evolution from meeting transcription tool to the comprehensive corporate knowledge base that powers how organizations capture, search, and activate their most valuable asset: institutional knowledge.
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Business Milestone: $100 Million ARR
In March 2025, Otter.ai surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue. The company achieved this milestone with remarkable efficiency: a lean team of fewer than 200 employees generating more than $500,000 in revenue per employee.
"Our $100M ARR milestone validates that businesses are ready to embrace AI agents that augment human intelligence in meaningful ways," said Sam Liang, co-founder and CEO of Otter.ai. "We're not just talking about the future of AI; we're building it, moving beyond theoretical discussions and delivering everyday tools that are already impacting over 35 million Otter users worldwide."
Media Recognition: The Global Spotlight
Otter.ai's momentum captured the attention of the world's leading business media:
Innovation: Industry-First AI Meeting Agent Suite
In March 2025, Otter.ai unveiled a groundbreaking evolution in AI-powered collaboration - the industry's first suite of voice AI meeting agents:
Enterprise Evolution: The Corporate Knowledge Base Delivering $1 Billion+ in Customer ROI
In October 2025, Otter.ai launched a comprehensive enterprise suite that solidifies its position as the corporate knowledge base for modern organizations. Building on a proven track record of generating over $1 billion in customer ROI, Otter now serves as the central repository where every conversation, decision, and insight becomes searchable, actionable enterprise intelligence. Key capabilities include:
For the average Otter enterprise customer, the platform saves the equivalent of one full-time employee for every 20 users, delivering a 10:1 return on investment.
"The Otter.ai team is solving a critical enterprise problem: turning unstructured voice data into measurable business value," said Tim Draper, Founding Partner at Draper Associates and one of Otter's first investors. "When I back a company, I'm looking for real impact, real ROI, and real solutions - Otter delivers on all three, and we at Draper have been happy customers for 8 years."
Security: Enterprise-Grade Protection
In July 2025, Otter.ai achieved HIPAA compliance, joining its existing SOC 2 Type II certification.
Healthcare organizations can now confidently use Otter for clinical documentation, team communication, and patient coordination. With HIPAA compliance, healthcare users can rely on Otter to capture and document vital patient information more effectively, improving productivity, efficiency, and patient care outcomes.
Global Expansion: New Languages, New Markets
Otter.ai expanded its global footprint throughout 2025, making it the go-to AI meeting agent for teams and businesses worldwide:
"Our mission is to empower businesses across the globe to unlock their unstructured voice data," said Liang. "Being one of the first and only companies to develop our AI language transcription capabilities in-house, we're able to provide unparalleled accuracy for complex languages and accents."
By the Numbers: 2025 at a Glance
Looking Ahead
"We've built more than a meeting tool, we've built the corporate knowledge base that enterprises have been waiting for where every meeting, every conversation, every decision lives in a searchable, intelligent system that makes organizations smarter over time,” says Liang. “2025 was extraordinary but the best meetings haven't happened yet, the best ideas haven't been captured yet, the best version of work hasn't been built yet - we're just getting started."
About Otter.ai
Otter.ai is the leading AI meeting agent empowering businesses to unlock the value of their meetings by transforming unstructured voice data into searchable, actionable, and a centralized voice-first knowledge base that enables organizations to capture and activate their institutional knowledge through agentic workflows. With over 1 billion meetings processed for 35+ million users worldwide, Otter provides real-time notes, voice-activated agents that participate in meetings, summaries, action items, and customized insights so that professionals are more productive and can collaborate with their teams more effectively. The company has delivered over $1 billion in customer ROI and is backed by early investors in Google, DeepMind, Zoom, and Tesla.
Otter.ai caps transformational 2025 with $100M ARR milestone, industry-first AI Meeting Agents, and global enterprise expansion, establishing itself as the definitive corporate knowledge base and achieving over $1 billion in customer ROI.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump started in sales mode, using his State of the Union address to deliver an upbeat vision of the U.S. economy.
But that portrayal collides with the sentiment of Americans who remain anxious about their finances and feel they haven't benefited from Trump's policies. He took the high road to honor the gold medal-winning U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team and a war hero before pivoting abruptly to a darker tone as he ridiculed Democrats.
Here are takeaways from the speech.
Much of the nation is worried about the direction of the economy, but Trump says the good times are here, insisting repeatedly that rising costs are no longer a problem.
“The roaring economy is roaring like never before,” he said. He cheered the lower cost of gasoline, mortgage rates, prescription drug prices and the rising stock market: “Millions and millions of Americans are all gaining.”
Such optimism, as so many Americans are feeling economic strains, risks painting Trump as out of touch. Just 39% of U.S. adults approved of Trump's handling of the economy in February, according to AP-NORC polling.
Still, the president focused much of the first hour of his speech on the economy, something Republicans had urged him to do as they head into the midterm elections.
For a president who always seems to be spoiling for a fight, Trump also tried to summon Americans’ innate patriotic impulses. In addition to the hockey team, he singled out war heroes and those who had taken brave stands in other countries, using the moment to bestow numerous presidential medals in an effort to give the address a more positive gloss.
It underscored the president's media savvy and understanding that even if a moment isn't appreciated completely in real time, it can have an afterlife in the days following speech, especially on social media.
Yet in one revealing moment, Trump lamented why he couldn't give a congressional medal to himself.
Tributes to the Olympic hockey team and a World War II veteran didn't unify the room for long.
The Republican president soon took aim at Democrats and blamed them for many of the nation’s ills.
Trump said rising health care premiums are “caused by you,” suggested Democrats “are not protecting” Social Security and blamed them for the nation’s affordability crunch. “You caused that problem. You caused that problem,” Trump said as he glared at the Democratic side of the room.
He seemed to get angrier as the speech progressed.
“These people are crazy, I’m telling you, they’re crazy,” he said. “Democrats are destroying this country.”
Trump’s MAGA base loves such aggression. It’s unclear, however, if the rest of the country feels the same.
By Trump’s standards, he held his tongue when it came to the Supreme Court.
After the court struck down his tariff policy last week, Trump said the justices who voted against one of his signature issues were an “embarrassment to their families.” By Tuesday, he simply called the ruling “unfortunate.”
Trump sought to treat the ruling with indifference, insisting that tariff revenues were “saving” the U.S., ignoring the fact that the levies haven’t made a significant dent in government debt. He said the tariffs were paid by foreign countries even as virtually every study concludes that costs have been paid by U.S. firms and consumers.
At one point, he seemed to take the long view that history would ultimately vindicate him even if the Supreme Court would not.
“As time goes by, I believe the tariffs paid by foreign countries will, like in the past, substantially replace the modern day system of income tax, taking a great burden off the people that I love,” he said.
That is unlikely. The federal income tax is authorized by the 16th Amendment to the Constitution and the power to collect revenue is ultimately defined by Congress, not the president.
The president also used the speech to reprise his attack on the integrity of U.S. elections.
“Cheating is rampant in our elections,” Trump said.
Trump has made such claims for years, focused on his 2020 election loss, claims rejected by dozens of courts and his own attorney general at the time.
But the timing of Tuesday’s prime-time claims, less than nine months before voters across America are scheduled to decide control of Congress, was noteworthy. So, too, was Trump’s suggestion that he would take action to address a problem that doesn’t appear to exist.
“They want to cheat. They have cheated, and their policy is so bad that the only way they can get elected is to cheat,” Trump said of Democrats. “And we’re going to stop it. We have to stop it.”
Trump is calling on Congress to pass a bill requiring voters to show a photo ID before casting ballots. But he also recently vowed to enact an executive order to address the issue, although the White House has not clarified what it might entail.
Sometimes what’s not said is as notable as what is.
Trump has highlighted immigration since the very first speech in which he announced his 2016 presidential campaign. And on Tuesday night, he revived much of the same language he’s used throughout the past decade, blasting “criminal aliens” and warning of “drug lords, murderers all over our country.”
What he didn’t mention: the most aggressive immigration enforcement tactics that threatened to bring the U.S. to the brink earlier this year. He didn’t mention the deaths of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis last month at the hands of federal agents.
Indeed, it was Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., who shouted that “Alex wasn’t a criminal,” referring to Alex Pretti, one of the U.S. citizens killed in Minneapolis.
During her Democratic rebuttal, Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger said law enforcement must work to build trust in communities and said Trump “every minute spent sowing fear is a minute not investigating murders.”
Trump said nothing of his administration’s shift in tactics, including a drawdown of agents in the Twin Cities. And he made no acknowledgment of the broad concerns in the U.S. about Trump’s approach on immigration, as demonstrated by the 60% of U.S. adults who disapproved of his handling of the issue in February, according to AP-NORC polling.
Trump has already built up the largest U.S. military presence in the Middle East in decades. And in his speech, he outlined a rationale for using those forces to launch a major military strike against Iran.
The president said that Iran and its proxies have “spread nothing but terrorism, death and hate,” adding that its leaders killed at least 32,000 protesters in recent weeks, which is at the further end of estimates over the death toll. The U.S.-based Human Rights Activist News Agency has so far counted more than 7,000 dead and believes the death toll is far higher. Iran’s government offered its only death toll on Jan. 21, saying 3,117 people were killed.
Trump also warned that the nation has developed missiles that can threaten Europe and is working on missiles “that will soon reach” the U.S.
“My preference is to solve this problem through diplomacy. But one thing is certain, I will never allow the world’s number one sponsor of terror, which they are, by far to have a nuclear weapon. Can’t let that happen.”
The president, ever mindful of records that allow him to say he was the first, the best or had done the most, succeeded clearly on one thing: he beat his own record for the longest, clocking in at just under 1 hour, 48 minutes.
First lady Melania Trump awards World War II Navy pilot Capt. Royce Williams the Congressional Medal of Honor as President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Vice President JD Vance shakes hands with President Donald Trump following his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. House Speaker Mike Johnson is standing to the right of Vice President JD Vance. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Members of the Congress give a standing ovation as President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (Jessica Koscielniak/Pool Photo via AP)
From left, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, applaud before President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times via AP, Pool)
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., gestures as President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, speaks to the press after being escorted out of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)
President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times via AP, Pool)
A newly built warehouse is seen on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, in Social Circle, Ga., where officials are concerned about U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement's plans connected to a $45-billion expansion of immigrant detention centers. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during the Senate Democrat policy luncheon news conference at the Capitol, Tuesday, Feb., 10, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
Security fencing is seen around the U.S. Capitol grounds in Washington on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026, ahead of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
President Donald Trump arrives for an event to proclaim "Angel Family Day" in the East Room of the White House, Monday, Feb. 23, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
An image is projected onto the exterior wall of the National Gallery of Art near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Feb. 23, 2026, ahead of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Shown is the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, ahead of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
President Donald Trump during an event to proclaim "Angel Family Day" in the East Room of the White House, Monday, Feb. 23, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
