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High Tech Series B Founded 2016

Gnani

Gnani develops proprietary speech and language models for enterprise applications as a frontier Voice AI company, building foundational models trained on 14 million hours of real telephonic audio across 40+ languages. Its model stack includes Gnani Prisma v2.5 for speech-to-text (ranked #1 in 8 of 9 Indian languages on the Kathbath Noisy benchmark), Gnani Timbre v2.0 for text-to-speech in 21+ languages, Gnani Warp…

📍 Bengaluru, India · Natural Language Processing,

Funding snapshot

Last roundSeries B
Amount$4M
Date10 July 2026
Total raised$22M
Valuation89,943,152 (Jul 10, 2026)
Team size169

About

Gnani develops proprietary speech and language models for enterprise applications as a frontier Voice AI company, building foundational models trained on 14 million hours of real telephonic audio across 40+ languages. Its model stack includes Gnani Prisma v2.5 for speech-to-text (ranked #1 in 8 of 9 Indian languages on the Kathbath Noisy benchmark), Gnani Timbre v2.0 for text-to-speech in 21+ languages, Gnani Warp v2.0 as India first 5-billion-parameter speech-to-speech model, and Gnani Aion v3.2 language models scoring 37.99% on Berkeley BFCL v3 for agentic function calling, outperforming GPT-4o-mini and Claude Sonnet 4. Enterprise products built on these models include voice agents for collections, customer service, KYC, and outbound calling; omnichannel analytics and quality assurance; AI-powered voice biometrics for authentication; and Agent Assist providing sub-500ms guidance during live calls. The platform processes over 30 million daily voice interactions across 200+ enterprise deployments in banking, insurance, healthcare, government, and telecom. Gnani supports cloud, private cloud, on-premise, and air-gapped deployments with SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS compliance. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, Gnani has raised approximately $21.9 million in Series B funding from investors including Samsung Venture Investment, Info Edge Ventures, and Aavishkaar Capital.

Business model

Chatbots > Industry Agnostic > Enterprise Collaboration > Workflow Automation,

Speech and Voice Recognition > Technology Providers > Software > Automatic Speech Recognition > Conversational AI Platforms,

AI Infrastructure > Natural Language Processing > NLP Platforms > Speech-based

Team background

College Wise > Indian School of Business

Institutional investors

Samsung Venture Investment Info Edge Ventures Startup Karnataka Commonwealth Inclusive Growth Services Aavishkaar Capital Alchemy Capital Management Deep Learning OceanPro Tech Innovations ML Elevate Bodnapu Venkat Rama Mohan Reddy Javagal Guru Dutt Mk Ashok Kumar Manish Bharti Lakshminarayanan Subramanian

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