Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls
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San Francisco-based Rime raised $24 million in Series A funding to advance its specialized voice AI models for enterprise customer service.Summary
Rime, a San Francisco-based voice AI startup, has secured $24 million in Series A funding led by M13 Ventures. Founded by Lily Clifford, Brooke Larson, and Ares Geovanos, the company differentiates itself by training models on proprietary conversational data collected in its own studio rather than web-scraped audio. Rime focuses on phoneme-based architectures to improve industry-specific terminology and brand pronunciation. While acknowledging that current voice AI often struggles to outperform legacy IVR systems, Rime is shifting toward speech-to-speech models to reduce latency and improve interactions for enterprise clients such as Mayo Clinic and Dialpad.
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