Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls
Rime, a voice AI startup, trains its models on conversational data from its San Francisco studio to improve pronunciation of brand entities and industry-specific terms, offering lower latency and better user experience compared to legacy IVR systems. The company, founded in 2022, has raised $24 million in a Series A round and has secured contracts with clients in food service, healthcare, airlines, and fintech. Rime aims to compete in the enterprise voice AI market by addressing technical challenges and improving call handling through its phoneme-based architecture.
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