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rime.ai
Linguistics-first enterprise voice AI for real-time customer conversations
About rime.ai
Rime is an enterprise voice AI company taking a linguistics-first approach to speech models and is building speech-to-speech models. Its voices power about 100 million phone calls per month for customers including Mayo Clinic, Dialpad, Upstart and Asurion, with a focus on regulated, HIPAA-sensitive use cases. Rime was founded in 2022 by CEO Lily Clifford, whose PhD work at Stanford was in linguistics, PhD linguist Brooke Larson, formerly of Amazon Alexa, and Stanford-trained engineer Ares Geovanis; Rafael Valle, formerly an audio researcher at Meta's Superintelligence Lab, joined as Chief Science Officer. On 15 July 2026 Rime announced a $24 million Series A led by M13 with Twilio Ventures and Corazon Capital and continued participation from Unusual Ventures; Morgan Blumberg of M13 joined the board. Sources: Business Wire 15 Jul 2026.
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| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SERIES A✓Equity / VC | Jul 2026 | $24M | $96M | Corazon Capital · M13 · Twilio · Unusual Ventures | ↗ |
| SEED✓Equity / VC | May 2025 | $5.5M | $22M | Founders You Should Know · Cadenza · Rebecca Greene · Unusual Ventures | ↗ |
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