Gradium Raises $100 Million Seed With Nvidia Backing as It Expands to Bay Area
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Updated · TechCrunch · Jul 9
Gradium Raises $100 Million Seed With Nvidia Backing as It Expands to Bay Area
1 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Jul 9
Summary
$100 million is now in Gradium’s seed round after the Paris-based voice AI startup reopened the financing to new investors including Nvidia.
The fresh capital will fund a Bay Area office, where Gradium aims to recruit talent closer to Anthropic, Google, Meta and OpenAI.
Gradium launched from stealth in December with $70 million and says it has already signed customers including Renault, suggesting early traction despite heavy competition.
The startup, spun out of French AI lab Kyutai, builds ultra-low-latency audio models for near-instant AI voice responses in a market that includes ElevenLabs and Google Gemini.