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Rime raises $24M

Rime announced a Series A round of $24M on 15 July 2026. The company operates in AI & Machine Learning and is based in United States. It was founded by Lily Clifford, Co-founder & CEO.

Raised
$24M
Stage
Series A
Industry
AI & Machine Learning
Country
United States

Founder

Lily Clifford
Co-founder & CEO, Rime
LinkedIn profilerime.ai

Outreach angles

  • -Lily Clifford is a former Stanford linguistics PhD student who co-founded Rime in 2022.
  • -She built Rime with a linguistics-first approach and proprietary conversational data from its own San Francisco studio.
  • -The $24M Series A led by M13 scales speech-to-speech models handling over 100 million calls a month.

Signals

Series AAI-NativeEnterpriseB2BRevenue-GeneratingAPI-First

Round details

Company: Rime
Domain: rime.ai
Amount: $24M
Stage: Series A
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Country: United States
Announced: 15 July 2026
Source: announcement

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