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Max Child
Co-Founder & CEO at Volley
Max Child, Co-Founder & CEO of Volley
Max Child is the Co-Founder and CEO of Volley, a leading developer of voice AI games for smart speaker platforms like Amazon Alexa, smartphones, and connected TVs.123 He co-founded the company in 2016 with James Wilsterman, his college roommate at Harvard.2
Prior to Volley, Max worked as a writer and iOS App Developer at The Infatuation from 2013 to 2017.14 He was also an Associate at The Boston Consulting Group from 2010 to 2012.14
Max has an A.B. in Economics from Harvard University and is a dropout from Stanford Graduate School of Business.14 He attended Polytechnic School as well.4
Under Max's leadership, Volley has become the highest-grossing AI-powered gaming startup.3 The company recently raised $55 million in Series C funding co-led by Microsoft's M12 Ventures and the Amazon Alexa Fund.3
Max believes voice control will become ubiquitous across all computing devices in the next 5-10 years.5 He sees Volley becoming the "homepage for voice control games" across various devices.5 Max has also co-hosted the Cerebral Valley AI Summit.67
Highlights
Excited to officially announce @volleygames’s $55M Series C, co-led by Microsoft's @M12vc and @lightspeedvp!
We founded Volley with the belief that talking is the easiest way to communicate, and that games are the most fun way to learn about the world.
In the last few years, technology has begun to catch up with our ambition. Leaps forward in speech recognition and LLMs have made our games much better. Hardware has continued to improve—nearly every new TV has a microphone on the remote and every mobile phone has robust voice support.
This funding lets us push the pace even further in bringing our top games—Volley originals like “20 Questions”, “Karaoke”, as well as cherished TV game shows like “Jeopardy” and “Wheel of Fortune”—to new devices, as well as letting us capitalize on technologies like GPT 4o to launch new categories of voice gaming.
If nothing else, our goal of Volley is to have fun making entertainment—if this resonates with you, please join us! Read more about our fundraise and our goals here: https://t.co/e6d9cU2nhu
