Company record
Rime
Updated November 2, 2026 · Presspool
Rime makes conversational voice models for enterprise customer conversations. rime.ai
Funding
- $24M Series A, announced July 15, 2026. Led by M13. Sources: techcrunch.com.
Whether AI names Rime
- On the Voice AI map: named or cited in 3 of 54 answers to Presspool's Voice AI questions on November 2, 2026 (ChatGPT 1 of 8, Claude 1 of 8, Perplexity 1 of 8, Gemini 0 of 8, Copilot 0 of 8, Google AI Mode 0 of 8, Google AI Overviews 0 of 6). See the map. Of the 29 companies on the map, Rime ranked joint 20th by answers naming or citing it in that sample. The other companies AI names most on Voice AI questions: ElevenLabs (39 of 54), Deepgram (28 of 54), Retell AI (27 of 54), Vapi (24 of 54) and PolyAI (23 of 54). Most often named in the same answers: ElevenLabs (3), Smallest.ai (3), Bland (2), Deepslate (2), Gradium (2).
Week by week
Answers that named or cited Rime 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 | 4 of 53 |
| October 5, 2026 | 4 of 48 |
| October 12, 2026 | 5 of 56 |
| October 19, 2026 | 5 of 55 |
| October 26, 2026 | 3 of 56 |
| November 2, 2026 | 3 of 54 |
Sources AI cites when it names Rime
Presspool asked its 8 Voice AI questions on November 2, 2026; 3 of the 54 answers named or cited Rime, on ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity. The sites those 3 answers cited most:
- crunchbase.com: 1 of 3 answers
- landbase.com: 1 of 3 answers
- mean.ceo: 1 of 3 answers
- newmarketpitch.com: 1 of 3 answers
- openai.com: 1 of 3 answers
- presspool.ai: 1 of 3 answers
- prnewswire.com: 1 of 3 answers
- pymnts.com: 1 of 3 answers
- saasrise.com: 1 of 3 answers
- speechtechmag.com: 1 of 3 answers
Related records
Also on the Voice AI map: AssemblyAI, Assort Health, Bland, Cartesia, Deepdub, Deepgram, Deepslate, ElevenLabs, Fish Audio, Goodcall, Gradium, Inworld AI and 16 more on the map.
M13, which led this round, also led Baselayer ($35 million Series A, September 22, 2026).