Guava
Guava (formerly Gridspace, founded 2012 in Los Angeles) is a developer platform for AI voice agents that handle customer phone calls.
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Guava (formerly Gridspace, founded 2012 in Los Angeles) is a developer platform for AI voice agents that handle customer phone calls. It trains its own unified stack spanning speech recognition, language models and speech synthesis (flagship model Daytona) and offers Python/TypeScript SDKs so enterprises in regulated industries such as healthcare, insurance, banking, government and BPOs control agent behavior through their own code and business rules.
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Company· 12
Founders / team· 4
Funding history
- 2026-11-02Seed$13M
Investors · Acrew Capital, Flourish Ventures, WillowTree Ventures, Clocktower Ventures, Commerce VenturesSource · businesswire.com ↗
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BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Guava
Guava (formerly Gridspace, founded 2012 in Los Angeles) is a developer platform for AI voice agents that handle customer phone calls.
Seed · 2026-11
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United States
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$52M - Moonshine AI
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Undisclosed · $50M · 2023-12
$50M
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Strategic · $28M · 2024-01
$28M - Mosi
Omni-modal/speech foundation model development; MaaS open model APIs, with customer use cases in AI toys, consumer electronics, smart vehicles…
Pre-Series A · 2026-10
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Europe
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Proprietary native speech-to-speech large model deployed within the EU, serving enterprises in insurance, energy, call centers and other sectors
Seed · 2026-10
— - Respeecher
Voice cloning and real-time text-to-speech APIs for film, game dubbing and voice agents
Series A · $1M · 2023-12
$1M - Gradium
Ultra-low-latency audio language AI models and real-time voice interaction capabilities
Seed · $70M · 2025-12
$70M
Other / unspecified
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Smallest.ai
Multilingual voice AI models automating customer conversations, transcription and speech generation
Series A · $21M · 2026-07
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