Voice AI funding tracker 2026
May
Sierra ($950 million): Bret Taylor’s startup for customer service secured one of the biggest rounds of the year, beyond core AI model developers
Vapi ($50 million): The voice infrastructure startup reaches $500 million in valuation
Enzo Health ($20 million): The home health platform featuring “Enzo Scribe,” an ambient voice AI tool that captures clinician-patient
Vobiz AI ($1 million): An India-based voice infrastructure company that focuses on telephony
JobsUPI ($250,000): A voice-based platform to hire blue-collar workers in India
Hark ($700 million): A multimodal AI and hardware devices company that will focus on human-computer interaction
Commure ($70 million): An AI healthcare platform that uses voice AI as both a scribe and agent for call centers
Basata ($21 million): An AI healthcare company trying to automate tasks like appointment booking
Arc ($10 million): Not the browser-making company, but the startup that focuses on drive-through automation
Hardline ($2 million): This female founder-led startup is working on automating intelligence for construction-related calls
Kin health ($8.2 million): A voice AI scribe for patients. Think of this as Granola for health
April
Miravoice ($6.3 million): Voice AI platform to conduct automated interviews and market surveys
Insight Health ($11 million): A clinical AI agent platform deploying voice and chat agents to automate admin work in healthcare
Humanly ($25 million): The startup helps in various stages of recruiting, including finding and screening candidates
Natter ($23 million): A conversation intelligence platform for enterprises to conduct interviews and surveys at scale for sales and HR insights
Phonely ($16 million): Enterprise conversation platform for inbound calls to handle customer support and appointment booking
Solidroad ($25 million): A performance evaluation platform that analyzes customer interactions and provides coaching to agents
Thoughtly ($5.5 million): A CRM-native voice AI platform that embeds AI agents into workflows to automate outbound calls, lead qualification, and follow-ups
Tamber ($5 million): It is a tool for musicians to input voice and text into a prompt to find non-generative samples
Grai ($9 million): Grai is a social app that lets you use AI to remix tracks for fun
Era ($11 million): A platform for AI hardware to create agents and intelligence, along with enabling customers to create customized voices
Coral ($12.5 million): Healthcare administrative automation utilizing AI to process clinical voice, fax, and document workflows
Lucidia AI ($5.4 million): A Turkey-based language learning app with voice as the first modality
Outcraft AI ($2.3 million): A startup that lets organizations operate sales and revenue agents
Vox Talk AI ($1.5 million): Ireland-based, multilingual voice AI specifically designed for Alarm Response Centers to automate incident logging
Netomi ($110 million): Netomi is another customer service startup with clients like Delta Air, United Airlines, and the NBA
March
Ezra ($3.2 million): A voice AI platform focused on recruiting and interviews
Ringtime AI ($2.1 million): A platform that has focused on blue-collar recruiting. Beyond that, the company also focuses on property visit management and sales through call-based AI.
Granola ($125 million): This is the biggest round of March as the meeting note-taking app increased its valuation from $250 million to $1.5 billion with this round
Gnani.ai ($10 million): An Indian voice agent company that focuses on sectors like finance
Sandbar ($23 million): Voice-based hardware ring from former Meta employees
Taya ($5 million): Former Apple employee’s pendant
February
ElevenLabs ($500 million): The voice model company scored one of the biggest rounds to reach $11 billion in valuation
Newo.ai ($25 million): The startup builds an AI receptionist for small and medium businesses.
Simple AI ($14 million): An AI voice agent platform that caters to sales, finance, and customer support industries
Voiceline AI ($11.5 million): This is a voice intelligence startup catered towards on-field workers like sales agents
Slang AI ($36 million): A hospitality-focused startup that raised a mix of debt and equity. The startup uses voice AI for guest communication
Mozart AI ($6 million): A generative music workstation startup that allows artists to create songs with software
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January
Arrowhead ($3 million): Works on AI voice calls with a focus on insurance and lending
Presto ($10 million): A startup that handles AI drive-through
Deepgram ($130 million): A model provider for voice AI
Tucuvi ($20 million): A healthcare provider specializing in voice for care management
Flip ($20 million): A startup that develops AI to automate customer calls
Voicerun ($5 million): An orchestration platform to create voice agents
Applied Brain Research (Undisclosed): Startup working on edge processing for voice
Parloa ($350 million): The customer service agent startup tripled its valuation in eight months
Breez AI ($1.3 million): An orchestration startup serving clients in North America and GCC
LiveKit ($100 million): A voice AI engine that powers ChatGPT’s voice mode
Bolna ($6.3 million): An India-focused voice orchestration platform
Ringg AI ($5.5 million): A voice agent automation platform based in India
BoldVoice ($21 million): A coaching startup for non-native English speakers
*Decagon ($250 million): A customer service startup that uses AI across different surfaces
*Synthesia ($200 million): A talking avatar company that concentrates on serving enterprises for learning and development
Mia Labs ($20 million): AI-powered conversational platform for car dealership
Cosino AI ($3.3 million): This is an AI phone platform that engages with customers on the phone for ecommerce brands
Musical AI: ($4.5 millon): The company aims to provide proper attribution for generative media creations.
*These are not purely voice AI startups, but voice is a very important modality for them.