Company record
Modulate
Updated October 26, 2026 · Presspool
Modulate is a frontier voice AI company whose audio-native models analyze real conversations. modulate.ai
Funding
Latest announced financing: $25 million, round type not disclosed, led by Future Ventures, announced September 28, 2026.
- $25 million, round type not disclosed, announced September 28, 2026. Led by Future Ventures. Hyperplane and Lakestar also invested; the round brings total funding to $60 million. Listed in the AI startup funding roster for September 28, 2026 – October 3, 2026. Sources: Modulate, TechCrunch.
Of the 236 rounds announced in dollars on Presspool's weekly rosters since September 21, 2026, Modulate's $25 million is the joint 86th largest; their median is $15 million.
Whether AI names Modulate
- On the Voice AI map: named or cited in 5 of 56 answers to Presspool's Voice AI questions on October 26, 2026 (ChatGPT 1 of 8, Claude 1 of 8, Perplexity 2 of 8, Gemini 1 of 8, Copilot 0 of 8, Google AI Mode 0 of 8, Google AI Overviews 0 of 8). See the map. Of the 29 companies on the map, Modulate ranked joint 15th by answers naming or citing it in that sample. The other companies AI names most on Voice AI questions: ElevenLabs (45 of 56), Retell AI (26 of 56), Vapi (26 of 56), Deepgram (23 of 56) and Bland (20 of 56). Most often named in the same answers: Bland (3), Deepgram (3), ElevenLabs (3), Smallest.ai (3), Vapi (3).
- Machine Relations Index: Not cited in any Machine Relations Index answer, May 10, 2026 to October 18, 2026.
Week by week
Answers that named or cited Modulate in each weekly sample of Presspool's Voice AI questions, by the Monday of the sample week. A row is added every week.
| Week of | Voice AI |
|---|---|
| September 28, 2026 | 1 of 53 |
| October 5, 2026 | 3 of 48 |
| October 12, 2026 | 7 of 56 |
| October 19, 2026 | 7 of 55 |
| October 26, 2026 | 5 of 56 |
Sources AI cites when it names Modulate
Presspool asked its 8 Voice AI questions on October 26, 2026; 5 of the 56 answers named or cited Modulate, on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini. The sites those 5 answers cited most:
- aiweekly.co: 2 of 5 answers
- assemblyai.com: 2 of 5 answers
- deepgram.com: 2 of 5 answers
- indianstartupnews.com: 2 of 5 answers
- modulate.ai: 2 of 5 answers
- presspool.ai: 2 of 5 answers
- siliconangle.com: 2 of 5 answers
- techcrunch.com: 2 of 5 answers
- futureagi.com: 1 of 5 answers
- gapminder.vc: 1 of 5 answers
Related records
Also on the Voice AI map: AssemblyAI, Assort Health, Bland, Cartesia, Deepdub, Deepgram, Deepslate, ElevenLabs, Fish Audio, Goodcall, Gradium, Inworld AI, LiveKit, Murf AI, Parloa, PolyAI, Presto, Reecall, Retell AI, Rime, Sela, Sesame, Smallest.ai, Speechmatics, Synthflow AI, Vapi, Vocca, VoicePatrol.
Closest rounds in the roster for September 28, 2026 – October 3, 2026: OuterSignal ($22 million Series A, September 30, 2026), Halluminate ($30 million Series A, October 1, 2026), Restate ($20 million Series A, September 30, 2026), Outmarket AI ($34.5 million Series B, September 28, 2026), Ascerta ($18 million Series A, September 30, 2026), IPercept ($16.5 million Series A, September 29, 2026).