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Rime

Rime is a Series A voice AI company that builds and deploys frontier speech models through cloud or on-premises APIs, serving product teams at companies like Decagon and Cresta with human-like voice interactions.

Backed by Unusual Ventures, Cadenza Ventures, Founders You Should Know

Location
San Francisco
2 roles
Team size
11-50
Founded 2021
Total raised
$29.5M
Series A · last round Jul '26
Salary range
$145–245k
all 2 roles
Open roles
2

Open positions · 2

About Rime

Rime is a Series A voice AI company on a mission to make voice interactions feel more human. Drawing on deep expertise in linguistics and machine learning, Rime builds and deploys frontier voice models—positioning itself as analogous to OpenAI or Anthropic but specialized in the voice and speech space. The company delivers its models through a flexible cloud-hosted API or fully on-premises deployments, integrating seamlessly with customers' existing orchestration stacks and agent scaffolding. Rime serves product and engineering teams at companies like Decagon and Cresta, operating on a usage-based pricing model. Based in San Francisco with a small, autonomous team, Rime is scaling rapidly and currently managing more customer demand than capacity.

Culture & values

Small, autonomous team with full ownership expectations

Hybrid work arrangement in SF

Collaborative office culture

Fast-scaling environment with high demand for customer and prospect management

Funding

$29.5Mtotal raised

May '25Jul '26
  • Jul 2026 · Series A
    $24M
  • May 2025 · SeedUnusual Ventures, Founders You Should Know, Cadenza Ventures
    $5.5M
  • Unusual Ventures
  • Cadenza Ventures
  • Founders You Should Know

Company at a glance

Founded2021
Location
San Francisco, United States
Websiterime.ai
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The team at Rime

11-50 peopleSee everyone on LinkedIn

Ares G

Rime Labs Inc.

Lily Clifford

Rime CEO & Founder – AI Voice Models for CX

Rafael Valle

Research Manager and Scientist at NVIDIA

Ramona Xi

Product Designer @Rime – Voice AI | Prev. @WHOOP

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Brooke Larson

Founder at Rime Labs

Team breakdown

Team Distribution

  • Research & Specialized38%
  • Engineering21%
  • Sales & Business Development21%
  • Operations10%
  • Leadership7%

Where the Team Studied

  1. 1.Stanford University
  2. 2.McGill University
  3. 3.City University of Hong Kong
  4. 4.UCL
  5. 5.Peking University

Team Worked At

  • Amazon
  • Apple
  • Meta
  • Duolingo
  • Twilio

Location

Team Composition

45 people
  • Engineering and Technical2 senior10
  • Research2 senior8
  • Finance & Accounting4
  • General Management4 senior4
  • Marketing1 senior4
  • Design1 senior2
  • Sales1 senior2
  • Administrative1

Life at Rime

Frequently asked questions

Of 2 open roles, Rime has 2 hybrid positions.

Rime is based in San Francisco.

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