---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-086243"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SOUN"
cik: "0001840856"
company_name: "SOUNDHOUND AI, INC."
filed_at: "2025-09-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T07:21:45.329969+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SoundHound AI acquires Interactions for $60M cash + up to $25M earnout

## Summary
- Total consideration: ~$60M cash upfront plus up to $25M earnout based on 2026-2027 revenue targets; closed Sept 3, 2025.
- Combined company holds >$270M cash with no debt; deal expected to be immediately accretive to operating profitability.
- Adds diverse Fortune 100 clients across retail, insurance, auto; nearly 400 combined patents.
- Acquisition follows strongest quarter ever; revenue tripled YoY, ~3B conversational AI queries per quarter.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-086243
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SOUN
- cik: 0001840856
- company_name: SOUNDHOUND AI, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-09-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.01, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1840856/000121390025086243/0001213900-25-086243-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1840856/000121390025086243/ea0256604-8k_sound.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-25-086243
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-25-086243.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-25-086243.txt

## Key facts
- M&A Transactions
  SOUNDHOUND AI, INC. completed an acquisition involving Interactions Corporation for approximately $60 million in cash (closed 2025-09-03).
  - Action: acquisition
  - Counterparty: Interactions Corporation
  - Consideration: approximately $60 million in cash
  - Closing: 2025-09-03
  source text: with and into the Target, with the Target surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of Acquirer (the “ Acquisition ”), for a total consideration consisting of (i) approximately $60 million in cash (the “ Upfront Consideration ”), payable at the closing of the Acquisition (the “ Closing ”) and (ii) up to $25 million of additional cash consideration to certain
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1840856/000121390025086243/0001213900-25-086243-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.