AI-Powered Voice Dictation Platform Willow Raised $ 4.2 Million to Build Voice-First Interfaces

Led by Co-founders Allan Guo(CEO) and Lawrence Liu(CTO), Willow has secured $4.2 million in funding led by Boxgroup, with participation from Goodwater Capital, Burst Capital, and Liquid 2 Ventures. Willow is also backed by some renowned angels, including Max Mullen(Instacart), Kaz Nejatian(Shopify), Dharmesh(Hubspot), Tomer London(Gusto), Ankur Nagpal(Teachable), Mercedes Bent(Lightspeed), Steven Zhou(Moov), and others.

Thousands of professionals at companies like Canva, GitHub, and Webflow use Willow to work up to 5x faster. Willow is designed to unlock voice as the universal interface, enabling control of any device, app, or workflow through simple spoken commands.

Willow began after its founders dropped out of Stanford to build a healthcare startup. After over 10 pivots and a year of hard lessons, they discovered a powerful insight: voice scribes were freeing doctors from hours of paperwork, allowing them to focus on patient care. This sparked a broader realization—if voice could transform healthcare, it could revolutionize work for all knowledge professionals. Today, despite advances in AI, a billion professionals still rely on keyboards to communicate with both humans and machines. Willow aims to change that.