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Modulate Nabs $25M for Voice AI Supervision
Modulate raised $25 million led by Future Ventures to expand its audio-native AI platform, Velma, which analyzes tone, intent, emotion, synthetic speech, and conversational behavior directly from audio. The round brings the company’s total funding to $60 million and targets voice agents, fraud detection, customer experience, and trust and safety.
// ANALYSIS
Voice agents are moving beyond “does it sound human?” toward “did it understand and act correctly?” Modulate’s bet is that supervising conversations requires audio-native signals that transcript-first systems discard.
- –Velma combines more than 100 specialized models for real-time conversational analysis.
- –Direct audio analysis can capture tone, escalation, hesitation, and synthetic voices that transcripts miss.
- –Developer-facing APIs and SDKs could make voice-agent evaluation part of production infrastructure.
- –The company’s existing moderation experience gives it a stronger operational wedge than generic voice analytics startups.
- –Modulate will need transparent benchmarks and actionable error reports to earn trust in high-stakes deployments.
// TAGS
modulatefundingvoice-agentspeechevaluationobservabilitysafety
DISCOVERED
1h ago
2026-09-29
PUBLISHED
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2026-09-29
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