Kotoba Technologies Raises $10 Million in Seed Funding to Expand Real-Time Voice AI Platform Across East Asia

Kotoba Technologies Raises $10 Million in Seed Funding to Expand Real-Time Voice AI Platform Across East Asia

Round Led by Kindred Ventures, with Participation from Salesforce Ventures and Sony Innovation Fund, Toward Becoming the De Facto Voice AI Platform for East Asia

Kotoba Technologies, a developer of real-time speech models optimized for East Asian languages, today announced an additional USD 10 million in seed funding. The financing was led by Kindred Ventures, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and Sony Innovation Fund. The round brings the company’s total funding to date to USD 23 million.

This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260624276012/en/ Kotoba Technologies' "Kotoba – Voice Translation" app, powered by its proprietary "Koto" voice AI model, delivers real-time, speech-to-speech interpretation on a single smartphone between East Asian languages and English, including Japanese, Korean and Chinese. (Graphic: Kotoba Technologies, Inc.)

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