Yobe

Yobe develops bioacoustic intelligence technology that serves as the missing intelligence layer making voice AI actually work in real-world environments. The platform extracts who is speaking, how they are speaking, and where they are speaking in chaotic acoustic environments, enabling voice authentication, user identification, emotion detection, sound classification, and direction-and-range tracking. Yobe's technology significantly improves speech-to-text effectiveness and addresses the fact that 95% of enterprise voice AI projects fail in real-world deployment due to missing bioacoustic grounding. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in the United States, the company has raised approximately $5.5M in seed funding. Yobe differentiates itself through its proprietary bioacoustic intelligence that provides mission-critical voice AI reliability for enterprise brands where getting it right can mean the difference between $3.2M annual savings and $2.3M annual losses.