- conflicts or gaps
- [[{"field": "employees", "conflict": {"value": "YC reports team size 13; Quebec registry reports 6-10; Owler estimates 1-25", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lyrebird", "https://opengovca.com/quebec-business/1173133274", "https://www.owler.com/company/lyrebird1"]}}, {"field": "funding_date", "conflict": {"value": "TheCompanyCheck lists seed round June 2017; other databases list August 2017", "source_urls": ["https://www.thecompanycheck.com/company/b/lyrebird/dk8swo48jigdg7snh"]}}, {"field": "investors", "conflict": {"value": "CB Insights lists Andreessen Horowitz and Steve Blank as Lyrebird investors; primary sources only confirm Y Combinator pre-acquisition (a16z invested in acquirer Descript, not Lyrebird)", "source_urls": ["https://www.cbinsights.com/company/lyrebird", "https://voicebot.ai/2019/09/18/descript-acquires-lyrebird-and-lands-15-million-in-funding-from-andreessen-horowitz-and-redpoint/", "https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/18/descript-audio/"]}}, {"field": "acquisition_price", "gap": {"value": "No disclosed acquisition price or valuation at exit", "source_urls": ["https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/18/descript-audio/", "https://voicebot.ai/2019/09/18/descript-acquires-lyrebird-and-lands-15-million-in-funding-from-andreessen-horowitz-and-redpoint/"]}}, {"field": "revenue", "gap": {"value": "No verified revenue figures; Owler estimates $100K-$5M annually (unverified)", "source_urls": ["https://www.owler.com/company/lyrebird1"]}}, {"field": "name_collision", "conflict": {"value": "Unrelated Australian clinical-documentation company also named Lyrebird (different entity, later raised $12M+); must not be conflated with YC S17 Montreal voice-cloning startup", "source_urls": ["https://www.cbinsights.com/company/lyrebird"]}}, {"field": "founded_vs_incorporated", "conflict": {"value": "Public product demo April 2017 and YC S17 participation precede Quebec incorporation date 2017-10-05", "source_urls": ["https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/24/15406882/ai-voice-synthesis-copy-human-speech-lyrebird", "https://opengovca.com/quebec-business/1173133274", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lyrebird"]}}, {"field": "post_money_valuation", "gap": {"value": "PitchBook post-money valuation $1.71M cited only via secondary source (Voicebot); primary PitchBook data not directly verified", "source_urls": ["https://voicebot.ai/2019/09/18/descript-acquires-lyrebird-and-lands-15-million-in-funding-from-andreessen-horowitz-and-redpoint/"]}}]]
- source urls
- ["https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/recreate-any-voice-using-one-minute-of-sample-audio/", "https://github.com/lyrebird-ai/lyrebird-tournament-app", "https://medium.com/moonshotlab/lessons-in-stealing-my-bosses-voice-a56fb290f330", "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15185089", "https://opengovca.com/quebec-business/1173133274", "https://seedtable.com/startups/Lyrebird_%28company%29-6396MXV", "https://startups.rip/company/lyrebird", "https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/18/descript-audio/", "https://voicebot.ai/2019/09/18/descript-acquires-lyrebird-and-lands-15-million-in-funding-from-andreessen-horowitz-and-redpoint/", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/lyrebird", "https://www.descript.com/lyrebird", "https://www.owler.com/company/lyrebird1", "https://www.thecompanycheck.com/company/b/lyrebird/dk8swo48jigdg7snh", "https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/24/15406882/ai-voice-synthesis-copy-human-speech-lyrebird", "https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/18/20871613/descript-podcast-studio-launch-editor-overdub-ai-features-pricing-release-date", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lyrebird"]