Beyond Verbal

Beyond Verbal is an Israeli start-up company that has developed a tool for Emotion recognition using vocal intonation.^[1][2]

Beyond Verbal

Type of business	Private
Type of site	Biometrics
Founded	2012
Headquarters	Tel Aviv , Israel

Overview

Beyond Verbal commercializes patented technology from 18 years of research by physicists and neuropsychologists into the mechanisms of human intonations.^[3] The company says that its technology enables machines to understand human emotions by analyzing raw voice intonations as people speak.^[4][5][6][7]

History

The company founders are Yoav Hoshen, Yuval Mor, Yuval Rabin and Ambassador Ned Siegel. Its technology was based on the research of 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.^[8]

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^[9]
• 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^[10]
• 06.2014: Partnership With Lieberman Research Worldwide (LRW) to integrate Emotions Analytics technology to enhance market research.^[11]

Investors

Beyond Verbal has received $10.8 million in funding. Investors include Singulariteam, Winnovation and The Siegel Group.^[12]