Beyond Verbal Raises $3.3M And Releases Wellness API

September 22, 2014 | The emotions analytics company Beyond Verbal announced that it raised $3.3 million in a funding round led by Winnovation and SingulariTeam. With this investment, the total funds invested in BeyondVerbal since the company’s founding in May, 2013 has reached more than $7 million. Beyond Verbal also unveiled its new cloud-based solutions for the developers of wellness and fitness apps that want to add an emotion-screening features to their technology. Using smartphones Beyond Verbal’s Wellness API can turn any smartphone microphone into a sensor that discovers and tracks emotional well-being over time and in correlation with different activities. Beyond Verbal’s technology is based on research that began in 1995 (now with five patents) and is able to detect hundreds of thousands of emotional states via voice in over 30 different languages.