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Tuesday, October 13, 2026 News · Playbooks · Momentum
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July 31, 2026 ยท AI models & tools

Smallest.ai raises 13 million dollars: voice AI startup counts RingCentral and Truecaller as customers

Voice AI startup Smallest.ai has closed a 13 million dollar Series A led by Seligman Ventures, bringing total funding above 21 million dollars. The San Francisco company, founded in late 2024, sells real-time voice models to enterprises including RingCentral and Truecaller, and is betting that an asynchronous architecture that listens, thinks and speaks simultaneously beats larger rivals on latency.

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