Rime, a San Francisco, CA-based speech tools company, raised $5.5M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Unusual Ventures with participation from Founders You Should Know, Cadenza, and angel investors including Aaron King, Alex Levin, Rebecca Greene, Michael Akilian, Maran Nelson, Nick Arner, Molly Mielke, Arnaud Schenk, Coyne Lloyd, Sarah Veit Wallis, Mike Heller, Zhenya Loginov and Monica Black.
The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts.
Led by CEO Lily Clifford, Rime develops enterprise-level speech tools for integration with every customer need. Its lifelike voice AI technology delivers aware text-to-speech, letting enterprises and startups build applications with sub-200ms latency on the cloud (and <100ms on-prem) plus fine-grained voice controls.
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30/05/2025