Copenhagen's Good Tape Secures €600k, Spins Out From Zetland

Founded in 2022, Good Tape began as an internal tool at Zetland, built by journalists who wanted accurate transcripts without passing sensitive interviews to outside vendors. The company is led by co-founders Ýmir Gyðuson Gíslason and Lasse Finderup, the latter serving as CEO. According to Tech.eu, the service is used by 3 million people across more than 150 countries and has completed over 15 million transcriptions in more than 100 languages, serving journalists, researchers, consultants, lawyers and public-sector teams.

Per EU-Startups, the platform converts audio into text while keeping customer data under the user's control. It holds ISO 27001 certification, complies with GDPR, stores data within the EU, and does not use customer data to train AI models.

Good Tape also launched Explore, a feature that connects each new recording to a user's prior transcriptions. The tool surfaces changed opinions, contradictions and supporting points, each linked back to the original audio, allowing users to trace statements over time.

In comments reported by Tech.eu, Finderup said Good Tape was built inside a newsroom by people who needed to trust where their interviews ended up, adding that Explore extends the product from transcribing interviews to connecting them while remaining safe for sensitive material. EU-Startups reported Aghassipour saying that uncertainty and scepticism around AI tools can leave people too overwhelmed to use them effectively, and that products should let users benefit from AI without worry.