GoKawiilTreble secures $18M to expand voice AI simulation and testing platform
Iceland-based Treble, founded in 2020 by acoustic engineers Finnur Pind and Jesper Pedersen, has closed an $18 million extension to its Series A round led by Paladin Capital Group, with backing from KOMPAS VC, Frumtak Ventures, EIC, and Omega ehf. The funding brings Treble's total raised to over $40 million, following a $12 million round in 2024, and the company already counts Amazon and Logitech among its customers.
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As voice AI expands into customer service, smart glasses, and robotics, companies need reliable ways to test and train models under realistic acoustic conditions rather than relying solely on scraped internet recordings. Treble's physics-based simulation approach could become critical infrastructure for an industry racing to improve voice recognition accuracy across noisy, real-world environments.
- Treble raised $18M in a Series A extension, pushing total funding past $40 million.
- The startup uses physics-based acoustic simulation to generate synthetic training data and benchmark voice AI models.
- Amazon and Logitech are among its customers, and it recently partnered with Hugging Face on a speech recognition benchmark.
Source: techcrunch.com — Ivan Mehta, 2026-09-17
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