Podonos builds the infrastructure layer for evaluating voice AI, offering a human-in-the-loop platform that analyzes models across naturalness, similarity, emotion, recognition accuracy, and more. Its evaluation service returns results in under 12 hours, even across thousands of audio samples and multiple languages. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Los Gatos, CA, Podonos targets ASR, TTS, voice cloning, and multilingual assistant use cases across verticals like finance, medical, legal, in-car, and gaming. The company emphasizes AI-accelerated human feedback rather than synthetic benchmarks to provide reliable, scalable performance measurement and continuous improvement. Podonos raised $2.4M in pre-seed funding and plans to use the capital to grow its engineering team, expand post-analysis tooling, and launch in the U.S., Europe, and Southeast Asia.

Total raised

$2M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Sep 2025