69 Best Audio Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Audio Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 257 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $3.4b. The average funding per company in this subset is $49.6m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Krisp logo

Krisp

Krisp is a technology company developing an AI-powered app designed to eliminate background noise during online communications.

5

Funding Rounds

$18.0m

Money raised

Mixhalo logo

Mixhalo

Mixhalo is a San Francisco-based technology company that has created a closed Wi-Fi network capable of transmitting audio in near real time from a sound source to an app on a smartphone.

2

Funding Rounds

$34.7m

Money raised

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Descript

A company offering an audio word processing platform that enables editor and producers to edit sound files while a writer would edit its lyrics.

4

Funding Rounds

$20.0m

Money raised

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Google DeepMind

Google DeepMind is an artificial intelligence company creating programs that use deep neural networks to teach themselves how to play a variety of games like Go and chess.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.3m

Money raised

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WellSaid Labs

WellSaid Labs is a Seattle-based synthetic media company developing text-to-speech technology for the creation of life-like synthetic voice overs.

3

Funding Rounds

$12.0m

Money raised

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Curio Labs

Curio Labs is a developer of an application allowing users to listen to stories from top journalistic outlets.

1

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

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SoundFocus

SoundFocus is a company developing and building a hardware product that processes and tunes audio based on hearing pattern and compensates to sound frequencies users do not hear well. It is available for iPhone or iPod Touch users.

1

Funding Rounds

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Muse.ai

A company focusing on artificial intelligence applied to video search.

4

Funding Rounds

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Papercup

An artificial Intelligence company with software that can translate voice tracks on videos. It is located in London, England and was founded in 2017.

4

Funding Rounds

$53.2m

Money raised

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Blokur

Blokur is a UK-based music rights administration platform for music creators and publishers.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

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Oxbotica

Developer of an AI-based platform intended to bring autonomy to any industry.

8

Funding Rounds

$240.4m

Money raised

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Lyrebird (company)

Lyrebird is a Montreal-based company founded by Alexandre de Brébisson, Kundan Kumar and Jose Sotelo. It was acquired by Descript in September 2019.

1

Funding Rounds

$120.0k

Money raised

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LISNR

LISNR develop sultrasonic data-over-sound technology for proximity verification and contactless transactions.

2

Funding Rounds

$10.5m

Money raised

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Nura (company)

A manufacturing company making headphones that adjust sound based on a users hearing.

1

Funding Rounds

$15.0m

Money raised

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DeepGram

Deepgram is an AI Speech Platform that provides developers with a simple to use Speech-to-Text API

8

Funding Rounds

$68.9m

Money raised

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Neurofenix

Neurofenix invented the NeuroBall, an intelligent controller for special video games, aimed at making stroke rehabilitation fun.

2

Funding Rounds

$14.0m

Money raised

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Smule

Smule is a company that helps develop music creation applications that connect peo

6

Funding Rounds

$99.5m

Money raised

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Jawbone

Jawbone is a San Francisco-based company founded in 1997 by Alexander Asseily.

7

Funding Rounds

$408.6m

Money raised

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OmnyStudio

An online platform for podcast and radio station management focused on serving enterprises.

6

Funding Rounds

$1.7m

Money raised

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Zygo

Zygo is a company founded in 1970.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

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Zencoder

Zencoder is a company providing a web-based video encoding SaaS for converting any video into web and mobile-compatible formats. It participated in the W10 cohort of Y Combinator.

4

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

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Jajah

Jajah is a Mountain View, California-based company founded in 2005.

4

Funding Rounds

$33.0m

Money raised

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Arrival

Arrival is a London based company developing and manufacturing zero-emission, public transportation vehicles.

4

Funding Rounds

$442.0m

Money raised

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Digium

Digium is an Huntsville, Alabama-based company founded in 1999 by Mark Spencer.

1

Funding Rounds

$13.8m

Money raised

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SOUNDBOKS

SOUNDBOKS is a company creating and marketing battery-driven speakers founded in 2015 by Jesper Theil Thomsen.

$13.0m

Money raised

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Julep (company)

Julep beauty, inc. is a privately held seattle, wa based cosmetics company.

3

Funding Rounds

$45.8m

Money raised

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Dotterel Technologies

Dotterel Technologies creates and distributes noise reduction and audio recording technologies for UAVs.

5

Funding Rounds

$4.7m

Money raised

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Jiminny

Platform for recording, transcribing, and analyzing calls and meetings in real-time to capture important data points.

2

Funding Rounds

$33.5m

Money raised

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Voicemod

The leader in immersive and expressive audio technologies that help you be heard the way you want to be heard.

10

Funding Rounds

$31.0m

Money raised

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Acast

Acast is an audio-on-demand and podcast platform that hosts, monetizes, and distributes audio content globally.

12

Funding Rounds

$133.7m

Money raised

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Speechmatics

Software offering autonomous speech and voice recognition for live and recorded media.

4

Funding Rounds

$140.3m

Money raised

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Treble

Sound simulation platform and synthetic audio data generation platform.

6

Funding Rounds

$28.3m

Money raised

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AmberScript

Amberscript is building SaaS solutions that enable users to automatically transform audio and video into text and subtitles using speech recognition.

2

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

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DICE (company)

DICE is a music ticketing platform founded in 2014 by Phil Hutcheon.

7

Funding Rounds

$325.8m

Money raised

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LOVO

LOVO is a Berkeley, California-based synthetic media company developing a text-to-speech platform using machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms.

4

Funding Rounds

$6.9m

Money raised

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Koo

Koo App is a social networking platform headquartered in India that allows users to post audio and video.

1

Funding Rounds

$30.0m

Money raised

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Endel (company)

Endel is a Berlin-based synthetic media and music company developing personalized sound environments to help users reduce stress, increase focus, and improve sleep.

7

Funding Rounds

$41.1m

Money raised

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Sonantic

Sonantic is a company that is developing expressive artificial voices for the entertainment industry.

2

Funding Rounds

$7.0m

Money raised

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Epidemic Sound

Developer of a royalty-free music library to provide production music for films, TV and YouTube.

10

Funding Rounds

$541.9m

Money raised

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Humanising Autonomy

Humanising Autonomy is building the global standard for human machine interactions.

4

Funding Rounds

$32.6m

Money raised

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Hume

Hume is the tech and music company behind virtual “metastar” angelbaby.

1

Funding Rounds

$23.4m

Money raised

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Veritonic

Veritonic is an audio intelligence company. It aims to quantify the value of sound by measuring, scoring, and benchmarking audio creative to produce fast, robust evidence around the ads, sonic brand elements, voices, music and scripts that influence audiences.

3

Funding Rounds

$14.2m

Money raised

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SpokenLayer

SpokenLayer is a company founded in 2012 by Will Mayo.

1

Funding Rounds

$372.0k

Money raised

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Wavepaths Ltd

Developer of a psychedelic therapy application designed to auto-generate soothing and individualized soundtracks for drug-free therapy. The company's application combines immersive media with advances in intelligent technologies and psychedelic science to develop mobile tools and physical spaces that re-connect with the user's inner resources.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.5m

Money raised

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Vlingo

Vlingo is a virtual assistant that uses voice-to-text technology and NLP to understand the user’s intent and take appropriate action.

3

Funding Rounds

$26.5m

Money raised

Clique logo

Clique

Clique is a software development company providing an identity oracle to connect web2 user behavior data to web3.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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Respeecher

Respeecher is a Kiev-based artificial intelligence company developing deep learning for speech processing for voice cloning for content creators.

4

Funding Rounds

$3.4m

Money raised

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Emjoy

Emjoy is a womens sexuality and body positivity app.

4

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

Neosapience, Inc. logo

Neosapience, Inc.

Neosapience, Inc. is a Seoul-based company founded in 2017 by Juncheol Cho.

5

Funding Rounds

$26.2m

Money raised

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Bilt Inc.

Bilt is a Texas-based company providing 3D instructions for assembly & installation

3

Funding Rounds

$31.8m

Money raised

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VoiceVibes

VoiceVibes is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2016 by Debra Bond Cancro.

5

Funding Rounds

$1.1m

Money raised

Spreaker logo

Spreaker

An online platform for creating, hosting, distributing, and monetizing podcasts.

1

Funding Rounds

$347.4k

Money raised

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AISpeech

AISpeech is a Jiangshan-based synthetic media company offering computer speech recognition, analysis, and generation.

6

Funding Rounds

$178.5m

Money raised

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Vibenomics

Vibenomics powers audio out-of-home advertising and experiences for brands and location-based organizations.

6

Funding Rounds

$39.4m

Money raised

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anotherblock

Invest in music and earn royalties alongside your favorite artists

4

Funding Rounds

$10.6m

Money raised

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AdTonos

AdTonos is a full-stack digital audio advertising platform founded in 1998 by Michal Marcinik.

3

Funding Rounds

$2.6m

Money raised

Fretello logo

Fretello

Empowering guitarists to become better musicians through holistic learning.

2

Funding Rounds

$4.1m

Money raised

Auddy Limited logo

Auddy Limited

Podcast publishing solutions for both enterprises and consumer

3

Funding Rounds

$11.1m

Money raised

Interactio (video conferencing company) logo

Interactio (video conferencing company)

Interact.io is a video conferencing company.

2

Funding Rounds

$60.0m

Money raised

Booktrack logo

Booktrack

Booktrack is a company founded in 2010.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

NumberEight logo

NumberEight

NumberEight is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2018 by Abhishek Sen.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

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Resemble AI

Resemble AI is a Toronto-based artificial intelligence company providing synthetic media tools for the production of realistic speech synthesis.

4

Funding Rounds

$12.0m

Money raised

Groover logo

Groover

Groover is a music promotion platform founded in 2018 by Rafael Cohen, Romain Palmieri, Dorian Perron and Jonas Landman.

3

Funding Rounds

$9.9m

Money raised

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MatchTune

MatchTune (formerly known as Muzeek) is a software that uses artificial intelligence to solve a problem that’s unique to the 21st century: YouTube soundtracks.

4

Funding Rounds

$3.9m

Money raised

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BeyondWords

BeyondWords (formerly SpeechKit) is a London-based artificial intelligence company developing synthetic voices, tools, and integrations for publishers and companies audio.

4

Funding Rounds

$196.0k

Money raised

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Replica Studios (AI company)

Replica is a company developing an AI that can replicate the human voice with text-to-speech software to produce expressive speech.

2

Funding Rounds

$5.4m

Money raised

Voicery logo

Voicery

Voicery is a San Francisco-based synthetic media company developing text-to-speech systems offering realistic human-like voices.

3

Funding Rounds

$120.0k

Money raised

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Tempow

Tempow

3

Funding Rounds

$4.6m

Money raised

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Modulate

Modulate is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based synthetic media company offering voice skins for games and systems for making voice completely customizable.

4

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised