Beyond Verbal

Beyond Verbal is an Israeli start-up company that has developed a tool for Emotion recognition using vocal intonation.

Overview
Beyond Verbal commercializes patented technology from 18 years of research by physicists and neuropsychologists into the mechanisms of human intonations. The company says that its technology enables machines to understand human emotions by analyzing raw voice intonations as people speak.

History
The company founders are Dr. Yoram Levanon and neuro-psychologist Lan Lossos. The idea for Beyond Verbal came to Levanon after observing how babies, who do not understand a single word, can figure out how their caretakers feel about them. After testing 60,000 subjects in 26 languages, he developed a system called Emotion Analytics to extract, decode and measure human moods, attitudes and personalities.

Milestones

 * 04.2012: Founding of Beyond Verbal Communication, Ltd.
 * 09.2012: Purchase of Key IP – Emotions Analytics technology, 17 years of research, 70,000 voices tagged in more than 30 languages, 3 patents
 * 05.2013: First seed investment of $2.8M
 * 06.2013: Launch of Moodies – Emotions Analytics web-based demo app
 * 07.2013: Follow on investment of additional $1 million
 * 09.2013: Launch of Emotions Analytics cloud-based API and first partner sign-up
 * 12.2013: Launch of first third-party solution
 * 01.2014: Launch of mobile Moodies iOS app
 * 06.2014: Partnership With Lieberman Research Worldwide (LRW) to integrate Emotions Analytics technology to enhance market research.

Investors
Beyond Verbal has received $10.8 million in funding. Investors include Singulariteam, Winnovation and The Siegel Group.