Conversational AI companies · plaud.ai

Plaud valuation, funding and revenue

Plaud sells AI note-taking hardware, such as the card-sized Plaud Note recorder, and transcription and summary software to professionals.

Figures checked October 2026. Each one links to its source.

Latest valuation

Not disclosed

No public valuation found.

Total funding

Not disclosed

Reported ARR

$100M

June 2026, the company said. plaud.ai

Website visits

6.2M

Estimated, August 2026. 0% on the month before.

What is Plaud's valuation?

We found no public valuation for Plaud. Private companies rarely publish one; it is usually disclosed with a funding round or reported by the press.

How much funding has Plaud raised?

We found no confirmed funding rounds for Plaud.

What is Plaud's revenue?

$100M ARR in June 2026, the company said (plaud.ai).

ARR (annual recurring revenue) is the yearly value of current subscriptions; annualized revenue scales a recent month or quarter up to a year. Neither is audited revenue. See what ARR is.

Plaud website traffic

Estimated monthly visits to plaud.ai across all channels, rounded. +30% over three months to August 2026.

May 20264.8M
June 20265.5M
July 20266.2M
August 20266.2M

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About Plaud

Plaud sells AI note-taking hardware, such as the card-sized Plaud Note recorder, and transcription and summary software to professionals. plaud.ai
Founded in 2022. qz.com
Headquarters: San Francisco, California. plaud.ai
Founders: Nathan Xu. plaud.ai
Valuation: CEO Nathan Xu told the Wall Street Journal (as reported by Quartz in September 2026) that Plaud 'was valued at more than $1 billion as of last year', i.e. 2025, and that the company is profitable; Vertex Holdings is its largest investor. qz.com
KrASIA, citing 36Kr, reported in May 2026 that Plaud 'is said to have raised funding from Tencent in mid-2025 at a valuation of USD 1 billion' and that its valuation 'has since risen to around USD 2 billion'. The same report quotes a person close to Plaud putting 2024 revenue at about $56 million and saying 2025 revenue roughly tripled. kr-asia.com
Targets and projections, not revenue: Plaud has set a goal of $500 million in global sales for 2026 and says it will pursue a US IPO (targeted for 2028) once annual revenue tops $1 billion. Plaud says it has more than 2.5 million users in over 170 countries. qz.com
Plaud's newsroom page shows a September 2026 posting date, but the release itself is datelined 'Tuesday, 16th June' (2026); the ARR date uses June 2026. plaud.ai

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Sources

Checked on 9 October 2026. Traffic figures are third-party estimates, not company-reported numbers.