Topic
speech models
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.