Camb.AI, an AI speech company specializing in dubbing any performance in over 100 languages, dialects, and accents using the original voices with their nuances, announced today a $4 million seed round.
Courtside Ventures, Ikemori Ventures, and Eisaburo Maeda led the round. The investor group also includes TRTL Ventures, Dubai Future District Fund, and Blue Star Innovation Partners who were early investors in the company.
The funding will power Camb.AI’s continued growth and progress since the company was founded in 2022.
Since then, Camb.AI has broken several technological barriers with their MARS TTS and BOLI Translator, built from the ground up for voice localization.
Their state-of-the-art techniques don’t just translate speech, they capture and convey the speaker’s original tone and nuance – preserving emotion with less than three seconds of input. This ensures that the translated content remains as powerful and engaging as the original, maintaining the speaker’s intended impact.
Camb.AI has the largest collection of resource languages and can translate Afrikaans, Malay, and Basque.
“This technology is truly remarkable,” said Vasu Kulkarni, Partner at lead investor Courtside Ventures. “Growing up in India, a land of over 700 languages, I saw first-hand how difficult it was to consume the plethora of content out there when you couldn’t understand it. For NBA fans in India to now potentially be able to watch Steph Curry while listening to the indelible Mike Breen commentating in Hindi is going to globalize the game even further.”
Founded by Avneesh Prakash, CEO, and Akshat Prakash, CTO, who spent a half-decade researching and building the technology, Camb.ai has seen over 100M views of its dubbed content and already counts Major League Soccer, Tennis Australia, Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, Nick DiGiovanni, Narin Beauty, BeerBiceps, and many other live sports properties, media companies and individual mega-creators as clients.
“I wanted to ensure my movie was able to be viewed by a global audience in any language,” said Nayla Al Khaja. “Only Camb.AI could capture the emotional nuances blended with the horrific content and create a truly authentic experience for my viewers.”
Despite the expansive reach of top-notch digital content, a substantial segment of the global population misses out on the essence of that content due to linguistic barriers.
Traditional methods of translation and dubbing sometimes fall short of preserving the original emotion, subtleties, and colloquialisms that render each piece of content unique.
“This is a monumental day for Camb.AI and we are excited to have an investor group that sees our vision and will help us grow,” said Avneesh Prakash, Camb.AI CEO and Co-Founder. “We’ve already seen amazing adoption of our technology and we expect this funding to fast track further development and global expansion.”
The company was recently selected, from a pool of 600+ companies, by Major League Soccer to be part of the inaugural cohort of the MLS Innovation Lab.
The company was also selected for the exclusive 2024 AO Startups Program, a joint venture between Tennis Australia, Wildcard Ventures, and Techstars, with Camb.AI’s technology most recently used to provide AI multi-lingual dubbing and translation from the 2024 Australian Open.
For more information on Camb.AI and its capabilities, visit https://www.camb.ai/
