Descript

Andrew Mason's Descript, which built an AI-powered media editing app, raised a $50M Series C led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, bringing its total funding to $100M

Descript, which offers a simple podcast editing tool, expands into video editing, letting users edit videos by rearranging a transcript

Descript, which offers tools for creating podcasts, raises $15M Series A from a16z and Redpoint, and acquires Lyrebird, which built audio transcription tools

The boom in popularity for podcasting has given a new voice to the world of spoken word content that had been largely left for dead with the decline of broadcast radio.

Bose acquires Andrew Mason's walking tour startup, Detour, as the Groupon founder focuses now on Descript, a startup offering tools to edit and transcribe audio

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Groupon founder Andrew Mason raises $5M from a16z for Descript, which lets users edit audio by directly editing its text transcription

A spin-off from Mason's last app, Detour  —  Andrew Mason, the co-founder and former CEO of Groupon whose most recent company produced audio-guided city walking tours …