Phonic, a San Francisco, CA-based end-to-end speech-to-speech platform for building lifelike conversational voice agents, has raised $4 million in seed funding.
Investors
The round was led by Lux Capital, with participation from key AI leaders including Amjad Masad (Replit), Clem Delangue (Hugging Face), Qasar Younis (Applied Intuition), and Erik Bernhardsson (Modal).
Lux Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative, high-growth companies across various sectors, including healthcare, technology, and energy. The firm focuses on funding disruptive technologies and visionary entrepreneurs who are shaping the future in industries such as AI, robotics, and life sciences.
Phonic Use of Funds
The company will use the funds to enhance its speech-to-speech platform, expand its intelligent decision system, and grow its customer base.
About Phonic
Founded by Moin Nadeem and Nikhil Murthy, Phonic is a Voice AI platform that provides an end-to-end solution for creating lifelike, conversational voice agents. Its platform unifies voice generation, recognition, and interaction. Phonic’s solution integrates voice recognition and text-to-speech technologies with deep in-house model training to ensure better performance at scale. Headquartered in San Francisco, Phonic is on a mission to make voice AI finally work for real business needs.
Funding Details
Company: Phonic, Inc.
Raised: $4.0M
Round: Seed
Funding Date: April 2025
Lead Investor: Lux Capital
Additional Investors: Amjad Masad, Clem Delangue, Qasar Younis, Erik Bernhardsson
Company Website: https://phonic.co/
Software Category: Voice AI
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