# Andy O'Dower

> Andy O'Dower is a Series C investor at Twilio (Chicago) backing Audio and Developer APIs. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Twilio](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/twilio)
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/odower
- Website: https://x.com/odower

Andy O'Dower is a Series C investor at Twilio in Chicago focused on Audio and Developer APIs. Andy O'Dower is the Head of Product, Programmable Voice at Twilio.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Audio | 1 | 100% |
| Developer APIs | 1 | 100% |
| Speech Recognition | 1 | 100% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deepgram | Deepgram helps enterprises unlock the potential of their audio data with custom-trained speech recognition for accuracy and scale. Deepgram's deep learning speech recognition system searches for keywords in transcripts by sound and text within audio and video files, used for transcribing calls, meetings, and voicemails for searchable notes,providing businesses with a fast, high accuracy speech-to-text on an easy-to-use API.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $130M | Series C | Jan 13, 2026 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Madrona](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/madrona-venture-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Princeville Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/princeville-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [SAP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sap) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ServiceNow Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/servicenow-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Stanford University](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stanford-university) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Twilio

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Twilio is a developer platform for communications and is reinventing telecom by merging the worlds of cloud computing, web services, and telecommunications. With Twilio, developers, and businesses make communications more contextual by embedding voice, video, messaging, and authentication directly into applications.

5 contacts available at Twilio.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andy O'Dower | Head of Product, Programmable Voice | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-odower |
| Luis Lopez | Principal Real Time Communications Strategist - WebRTC | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luis-lopez-c3fe |
| Umair Akeel | Product Architect | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/umair-akeel-2 |
| Will Mason | Senior Technical Lead for Edge | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/will-mason |
| Aidan Viggiano | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aidan-viggiano-4831 |

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## FAQ

### What does Andy O'Dower invest in?

Andy O'Dower invests primarily in Audio, Developer APIs and Speech Recognition startups, most often at Series C stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Andy O'Dower last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Andy O'Dower closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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