Marr Labs
AI-voice agents that are indistinguishable from humans.
Marr Labs is making AI-voice agents that are indistinguishable from humans. Han and Dave previously created speech tech company Vlingo that powered the first Siri app and was acquired for $225M. Now they are taking voice to the next level by making AI-voice agents that can handle virtually any phone-based job, from answering calls to schedule appointments to call center sales and support jobs—all at a fraction of the cost of a human agent. In the US alone, businesses handle 17 billion calls a year at an average cost of $5 per call–an $85 billion addressable market.
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Active Founders
Dave Grannan
Dave is the co-founder and CEO of Marr Labs. Previously, Dave was the founding CEO of speech recognition company Vlingo that provided speech recognition for the first Siri products and was acquired for $225M by Nuance Communications. Dave was also Chairman of the Board of NLP and speech recognition company Maluuba that was acquired for $160M by Microsoft. Prior to founding Marr, Dave was co-founder and CEO of machine vision company Light, acquired by John Deere.
Han Shu
Han is the co-founder & CTO of Marr Labs, an AI/ML pioneer and 2X entrepreneur. As co-founder of Vlingo(acquired by Nuance for $225M), he built Speech Recognition & Natural Language Understanding stacks, and supplied ASR to Siri. As co-founder of Wyth(acquired by Airbnb), he developed mobile personal assistant technology for collaborative productivity applications. Han led the ML and AI groups at both Airbnb and DoorDash. Han holds PhD, MEng, and BS degrees from MIT, and 25 patents.
Company Launches
At Marr Labs we are building task-specific AI-voice agents for roles like scheduling, sales, customer service, and more.
The first product is the Vox Scheduling Agent targeted at the Home Services Industry where every lost call is a lost revenue opportunity. For contractors, plumbers, electricians, and other service providers, voicemails and phone tag not only frustrate customers but also lead to lost business. Take a listen to a live Vox call.
This is our second time building a company together. We first met over a decade ago and partnered to create Vlingo, the speech tech company that powered Siri and created Samsung's Siri competitor, S-Voice before being acquired for $225M. Now, with the development of LLMs, we are creating an entirely new platform that can take original voice agents like Siri from robotic to human, which will be a game changer.
Who we are
Dave is a 4x startup CEO with a track record pioneering AI/ML solutions from concept to commercialization. In addition to Vlingo, Dave co-founded and served as CEO of Light, a machine vision company rooted in ML, before its acquisition by John Deere. He also led the mobile middleware company, Geoworks. Dave holds an MBA from Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and is a US Marine Corps veteran.
Han is an AI/ML pioneer and 2X entrepreneur. In addition to Vlingo, Han was a co-founder of Wyth (acquired by Airbnb) where he developed mobile personal assistant technology for collaborative productivity applications. Han led the ML and AI groups at both Airbnb and DoorDash. Early in his career, he led BBN's winning effort for a large-vocabulary Mandarin Chinese system, part of the Hub-5 speech recognition evaluation sponsored by NIST and DARPA. Han holds Ph.D., M.Eng., and B.S. degrees from MIT, and over 25 patents.
Our Ask
If you have a business where missed calls = missed revenue, give us a try. Email us now to schedule a demo at: hello@marrlabs.com.