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Gladia

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Gladia provides speech-to-text APIs for developers, offering real-time and batch audio transcription capabilities through a simple API integration. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Cesson Sevigne, France, Gladia has raised approximately $20.3M in Series A funding from investors including XAnge, Illuminate Financial, XTX Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Soma Capital, Kima Ventures, and New Wave. The company employs 60…

High Tech · AI Infrastructure, · Cesson Sevigne, France · EST 2022

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Gladia provides speech-to-text APIs for developers, offering real-time and batch audio transcription capabilities through a simple API integration. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Cesson Sevigne, France, Gladia has raised approximately $20.3M in Series A funding from investors including XAnge, Illuminate Financial, XTX Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Soma Capital, Kima Ventures, and New Wave. The company employs 60 people and delivers low-latency speech recognition supporting multiple languages with high accuracy, addressing the growing demand for voice-enabled applications in customer service, meeting transcription, media processing, and accessibility. Gladia's API-first approach enables developers to integrate state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition into their products without managing underlying ML infrastructure, offering competitive pricing and performance compared to larger cloud provider alternatives.

Business model

Speech and Voice Recognition > Technology Providers > Software > Automatic Speech Recognition,

AI Infrastructure > Natural Language Processing > Speech Solutions > Speech-to-Text

Institutional investors

XAngeIlluminate FinancialXTX VenturesAthleticoGaingelsMana VenturesMotierRooshSoma CapitalNew WaveSequoia CapitalCocoaKima VenturesEmblemAngel School

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