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Hiya
Phone call security software
- 201-500 employees
- B2C
- B2B
- Artificial Intelligence
- Security
- Big data
- Deep Tech
- Machine Learning
- SaaS
- Pike Place Market, Seattle, WA
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Company mission
To modernize voice with trust, identity, and intelligence.
Our take
Combining data analysis with machine learning, the Hiya platform helps businesses and individuals field calls and block spam numbers from calling them. Saving businesses time and potential security breaches, the company aims to resolidify trust in business calls, especially from unidentified numbers.
Founded in 2016, Hiya claims that in 2022 spam calls were up by more than 30% and that spam and fraud callers are becoming more sophisticated. With tech advances in cybercrime, the opposite is true too. Hiya use AI to fight the tech used by scammers, its most recent product is a personalized AI that analyzes personal data and learns from the calls an individual takes and hangs up. This innovation will help Hiya stand out in a competitive security marketplace, though one that is mostly focused on internet safety and company data breaches. Hiya has the potential to reach a far larger client base than just businesses, and this key difference has helped it raise $18 million in funding so far.
Of course, cybercrime changes with the times, and Hiya will have to continue innovating into the future to keep up with radical shifts in the way AI is used to scam individuals. So far though, the Seattle-based company has been highly successful.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- 401K Program
- Vacation Package
- Commuter Benefits
- 100% Covered Medical, Dental and Vision
- Charitable Matching
- Stock Options
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employer Covered Long-term Disability and Life Insurance
- Employee Learning and Development Budget
Company values
- Serve - Hiya serves its customers and users. Their success is its success.
- Own It - Hiya holds each other and themselves accountable for delivering on commitments with the highest level of quality. When the dust settles, Hiya shares in success and owns up to failure.
- Lead - Hiya shows up with a point of view, listens to the opinions of others, engages in open discussion, disagrees when it must, and commits itself entirely when the decision is made.
- Do - Hiya are doers, not observers or managers. It measures its progress by what gets done.
- Improve - Hiya constantly improves itself and its business, even if it has to change course or contradict itself. It is always curious and is never done learning.
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2023
$4.7m
EARLY VC
Jul 2017
$18m
SERIES A
Total funding: $22.7m
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Leadership
Alex Algard
(CEO)Previously Founder at Ekata, Whitepages, Co-Founder at CarDomain Network and Analyst at Goldman Sachs.