Orai builds AI-driven communication coaching tools that analyze users' recorded speech to provide feedback and focused lessons via iOS and Android apps. The apps assess metrics such as filler words and speaking pace and produce progress tracking after lessons. Its primary business model sells the platform to companies, enabling managers to assign lessons, create custom content, and track team progress. The founders — CEO Danish Dhamani with Paritosh Gupta and Aasim Sani — conceived the product after Dhamani's experience with Toastmasters and an earlier body-language project, Vocalytics. Orai intends to expand beyond audio analysis toward broader communication coaching and can scale coaching from one-to-one human coaching to entire teams or student bodies. The company announced a $2.3 million seed round led by Comcast Ventures and added famed speaking coach Nancy Duarte as an advisor.

Total raised

$2M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Feb 2019