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Phonic is a San Francisco speech-to-speech model company whose in-house Phonic-1 model unifies speech recognition, generation and turn-taking for enterprise voice agents in healthcare, insurance and customer service.
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- 2026-10-29Series A$28M
Investors · First Round Capital, Lux Capital, Felicis Ventures, Definition Capital, Essence VCSource · phonic.ai ↗
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Phonic is a San Francisco speech-to-speech model company whose in-house Phonic-1 model unifies speech recognition, generation and turn-taking for enterprise voice agents in healthcare, insurance and customer service.
Series A · $32M · 2026-10
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Series B · $275M · 2026-06 · Valuation $1.5B
$275MValuation $1.5B
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