FUNDING
Recent changes
- Jul 31, 2026Jul 31, 2026Raised $13M Seed TechCrunch
- Jul 31, 2026Jul 31, 2026Smallest.ai Raises $13M to Build Ultra-Fast Voice AI Pulse story
Funding History
1 event · sources dated per row| Date | Event | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2026 | Seed | $13M | — | Sierra Ventures3one4 Capital | Pulse story |
Investors
Latest Pulse
- Aug 3, 2026Seed Investors Are Still Funding Wonderfully Boring IdeasBidbus's $15 million round for live-dealer car auctions and Smallest.ai's $13 million round for narrowly-focused voice models show seed-stage capital still backing unglamorous, defensible niches even as headlines chase AI infrastructure mega-rounds.→
- Jul 31, 2026Smallest.ai Raises $13M to Build Ultra-Fast Voice AISmallest.ai raised $13 million led by Seligman Ventures to keep building voice AI models focused narrowly on speed and human-sounding speech rather than general-purpose foundation model scale.→
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Seed Investors Are Still Funding Wonderfully Boring Ideas
Bidbus's $15 million round for live-dealer car auctions and Smallest.ai's $13 million round for narrowly-focused voice models show seed-stage capital still backing unglamorous, defensible niches even as headlines chase AI infrastructure mega-rounds.
FUNDING
Smallest.ai Raises $13M to Build Ultra-Fast Voice AI
FUNDING$13M
Smallest.ai Raises $13M to Build Ultra-Fast Voice AI
Smallest.ai raised $13 million led by Seligman Ventures to keep building voice AI models focused narrowly on speed and human-sounding speech rather than general-purpose foundation model scale.
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