AI Startup Intelligence

AI Voice Agent Startups

Explore voice and speech AI startups building voice agents, transcription, speech generation, telephony infrastructure, and conversational interfaces.

Companies tracked: 102Key segments: voice agents, speech generation, transcriptionUpdated: September 27, 2026

Voice AI Market Snapshot

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Voice AI is moving from standalone speech models toward full-stack agent infrastructure for calls, support, sales, and operations.

Representative Companies

A crawler-visible sample of companies from the AI Market Watch database.

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Company	Location	Funding	Focus
Vaani Research Labs Founded 2024	Bengaluru, India	$400,000	An infrastructure-first platform to build & deploy human-like, production-grade Voice AI agents.
Chime Labs Founded 2024	Sydney, Australia	$900K AUD	An AI-powered voice receptionist platform designed specifically for tradespeople and home service businesses to automate call handling, lead qualification, and job scheduling.
Gnani.ai Founded 2016	Bengaluru, India	$15.68M	A voice-first agentic AI platform that enables enterprises to build, deploy, and manage AI agents across voice, chat, SMS, WhatsApp, and email channels for automated customer support and business process automation.
ElevenLabs Founded 2022	London, United Kingdom	$781M	An AI voice technology platform providing ultra-realistic text-to-speech synthesis, voice cloning, conversational AI agents, and audio generation across 70+ languages for content creators, enterprises, and developers.
Arrowhead Founded 2022	Bengaluru, India	$3.32M	Human-sounding AI voice agents specialized for the financial services sector that handle long, complex sales conversations with outcomes exceeding human agent performance.
Fundamento Founded 2020	San Francisco, United States	$3.46M total (all rounds)	AI-powered voice agents for lending institutions that automate customer interactions from loan discovery to collections
Supertone Founded 2020	Seoul, South Korea	Approximately $35.6 million (acquired by HYBE)	Supertone is an AI voice company that develops technology for creating hyper-realistic and expressive voices, including singing voices. The company's technology can be used for various applications, such as content creation, entertainment, and virtual assistants.
Otter.ai Founded 2016	Mountain View, California, USA	$73M	An AI-powered meeting assistant that generates real-time transcriptions, automated summaries, and action items for voice conversations.
Pocket Founded 2024	San Francisco, USA	$11.5M	A screen-free AI wearable device and platform designed to capture, transcribe, and summarize real-world conversations and meetings in real-time.
Bolna Founded 2024	Bengaluru, India	$6.92M	An enterprise-grade voice AI orchestration platform designed to build, deploy, and manage high-performance, multilingual AI voice agents for automated business workflows.
Breez AI Founded 2025	Wilmington, Delaware (legal HQ); offices in Amman, Jordan and Dubai, UAE	$3.8M	A no-code voice orchestration platform that enables enterprises to build, deploy, and scale provider-agnostic AI voice agents for automated phone operations.
Navana.ai Founded 2018	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India	$5.7M	Mumbai-based sovereign voice AI company building end-to-end multilingual speech models and AI contact center solutions for India's regulated enterprises, primarily BFSI.
Moises Founded 2019	Salt Lake City, USA	$50.25M	An AI-powered music platform and application that allows users to separate vocals and instruments from any song, master tracks, and practice music.
Intron Founded 2020	Lagos, Nigeria	$1.6M	Africa-centric voice AI platform providing best-in-class speech recognition and text-to-speech models specifically built for African languages, accents, and speech patterns, outperforming global tech giants on African speech benchmarks.
Aqua Voice Founded 2023	San Francisco	Not disclosed	YC-backed startup providing fast, accurate, and private frontier voice input as an AI layer to write and prompt into any application.
Lingopal.ai Founded 2023	Headquartered in New York, with offices across the US.	$18.9 million	Lingopal.ai provides AI-powered real-time speech-to-speech translation solutions.
LALAL.AI Founded 2020	Zug, Switzerland	$0	An AI-powered audio processing platform that provides stem separation, voice cleaning, voice cloning, and voice changing capabilities for audio and video files.
Klang Founded 2022	Helsingborg, Sweden	~SEK 8M (~€720K / ~$780K)	European AI platform that transcribes, summarizes, and analyzes conversations for professional use cases.
Sawt Founded 2024	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	$1M	Sawt is a Saudi-based startup developing an end-to-end voice call platform that enables businesses to handle customer support, bookings, and sales through AI agents.
Hi Auto Founded 2019	Tel Aviv, Israel	$23M total ($15M Series A + $4.5M Seed + $3.5M additional; plus $4M credit line)	Hi Auto automates drive-thru order-taking with AI-powered voice technology for quick-service restaurants.