Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls

Rime, a San Francisco-based voice AI startup, raised $24M in Series A funding to enhance enterprise customer call handling using proprietary conversational data and phoneme-based voice models. Founded by former Stanford and Amazon engineers, Rime aims to improve voice AI interaction quality and reduce reliance on legacy IVR systems by focusing on speech-to-speech models that better handle pronunciation, latency, and background noise.