Company record
Sesame
Updated November 2, 2026 · Presspool
Sesame makes personal voice agents and is developing audio-first eyewear for talking to them hands-free. sesame.com
Funding
- $250M Series B, announced October 21, 2025. Sources: techcrunch.com.
Whether AI names Sesame
- On the Voice AI map: named or cited in 5 of 54 answers to Presspool's Voice AI questions on November 2, 2026 (ChatGPT 2 of 8, Claude 0 of 8, Perplexity 1 of 8, Gemini 0 of 8, Copilot 2 of 8, Google AI Mode 0 of 8, Google AI Overviews 0 of 6). See the map. Of the 29 companies on the map, Sesame ranked 16th 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: AssemblyAI (5), Cartesia (5), Deepgram (5), ElevenLabs (5), PolyAI (5).
Week by week
Answers that named or cited Sesame 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 | 0 of 53 |
| October 5, 2026 | 0 of 48 |
| October 12, 2026 | 2 of 56 |
| October 19, 2026 | 2 of 55 |
| October 26, 2026 | 1 of 56 |
| November 2, 2026 | 5 of 54 |
Sources AI cites when it names Sesame
Presspool asked its 8 Voice AI questions on November 2, 2026; 5 of the 54 answers named or cited Sesame, on ChatGPT, Perplexity and Copilot. The sites those 5 answers cited most:
- cartesia.ai: 3 of 5 answers
- opencurious.com: 3 of 5 answers
- parloa.com: 3 of 5 answers
- retellai.com: 3 of 5 answers
- artificialintelligencecompanies.com: 2 of 5 answers
- assemblyai.com: 2 of 5 answers
- bland.ai: 2 of 5 answers
- deepgram.com: 2 of 5 answers
- elevenlabs.io: 2 of 5 answers
- hustlefund.vc: 2 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 and 16 more on the map.