Rime is a TTS / Voice Synthesis company founded in 2023 and based in San Francisco, United States. It has raised $8.6M in total funding, most recently a Seed in 2025.
| Date | Stage | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2025 | Seed | $5.5M | — | Unusual Ventures |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Seed | $3.1M | — | Unusual Ventures |
High-throughput TTS model optimized for business-critical, latency-sensitive applications such as IVR and customer-service voice agents. Mist v3 delivers approximately 70ms time-to-first-audio, supports deterministic pronunciation for domain-specific vocabulary, and scales to tens of millions of production calls per month. Available on cloud and on-premises; powers customer-service deployments for major consumer brands.
Rime's highest-quality TTS model prioritizing emotional depth and naturalistic prosody for use cases where voice realism matters most, such as brand voice, premium content narration, and consumer-facing assistants. Features fine-grained prosody control for pacing, emphasis, and intonation. Integrated into Together AI dedicated endpoints for low-latency inference.