Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls

Rime, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2022, has raised $24 million in a Series A funding round to advance its voice AI technology for enterprise customer calls. The company differentiates itself by collecting its own conversational data to train models that better handle brand-specific pronunciations and industry terms, aiming to improve the effectiveness of AI-driven voice interactions. Despite progress, Rime acknowledges that current voice AI still struggles to fully replace legacy IV