Tavus is a San Francisco–based AI research lab developing Personal Affective Links (PALs), lifelike digital humans that understand context, emotion, and social cues across text, voice, and video. Powered by proprietary foundational models—Phoenix-4 for visual rendering, Sparrow-1 for conversational audio intelligence, and Raven-1 for contextual perception—PALs can read expressions, remember past interactions, and autonomously manage tasks such as scheduling and emails. The company positions PALs as the next interface paradigm after chatbots, aiming to make computer interaction feel as natural as talking to a friend. Tavus’s technology is already used by more than 100,000 developers and enterprises in recruiting, sales, education, and customer service. Future plans include expanding PALs’ agentic capabilities and continuing to push the boundaries of “human computing.” The firm is backed by top-tier investors and is scaling its research team with specialists in rendering, perception, and affective computing.

Total raised

$64M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Nov 2025