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Rime: Funding, Investors & Team (Oct 2026)

Rime designs top-tier speech tools for seamless integration with diverse customer demands. We are pioneering the industry's initial fully customizable text-to-speech (TTS) solution. Gone are the times of artificial-sounding speech and the constraint of using only a few voices to convey your brand, product, or campaign.

rime.ai San Francisco, United States 1-10 employees Founded 2021
Artificial Intelligence Big Data Product Research
Total raised
$27.1M
Rounds
2
Latest
Series A
Jul 2026

Rime has raised $27.1M across 2 funding rounds on record, the most recent a Series A of $24.0M announced in Jul 2026.

That round is above the $6.0M median round size for Artificial Intelligence companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.

Rime Company Profile and Key Stats

Total funding raised
$27.1M
across 2 rounds on record
Funding rounds on record
2
Latest funding round
Series A
$24.0M in Jul 2026
Employees
1-10
reported band
Founded
2021
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States
Investors on record
20
5 named below

Latest funding round on record: Jul 2026.

Rime Funding Rounds

Date
Round
Amount
Series A
$24.0M
Undisclosed round
$3.1M

Rime raised $3.1M in an undisclosed round announced in Jun 2023.

3.1 years later, a Series A of $24.0M was announced in Jul 2026.

Rime Investors

Alumni Ventures Corazon Capital Twilio Unusual Ventures M13

20 investors are recorded in total; the 5 named above are those the record identifies.

Rime Founders and Leadership Team

Name
Role
Contact
Lily Clifford
CEO and Founder
Locked
Brooke Larson
Founder
Locked
Susan Boyle
Founder
—

Contact details for the Rime team: 2 of 3 have an email address on file, 2 have a LinkedIn profile.

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Rime Funding Compared to Other Artificial Intelligence Startups

Segment
Companies
Median round
30,319
$7.7M
8,591
$15M

Rime's latest round of $24.0M is above the median round in Artificial Intelligence. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.

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Rime Funding FAQs

What does Rime do?

Rime designs top-tier speech tools for seamless integration with diverse customer demands. We are pioneering the industry's initial fully customizable text-to-speech (TTS) solution. Gone are the times of artificial-sounding speech and the constraint of using only a few voices to convey your brand, product, or campaign.

How much funding has Rime raised?

Rime has raised $27.1M across 2 rounds on record. The most recent is a Series A of $24.0M announced in Jul 2026.

When did Rime last raise funding?

Rime's most recent funding round on record is a Series A of $24.0M, announced in Jul 2026.

Who has invested in Rime?

Investors on record for Rime include Alumni Ventures, Corazon Capital, Twilio, Unusual Ventures, M13. FundedIQ records 20 investors in total.

Who founded Rime?

FundedIQ lists Lily Clifford (CEO and Founder), Brooke Larson (Founder), Susan Boyle (Founder) at Rime.

Where is Rime headquartered?

Rime is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

How many employees does Rime have?

Rime is in the 1-10 employee band.

When was Rime founded?

Rime was founded in 2021.

How does Rime's funding compare to other Artificial Intelligence startups?

Rime's latest round of $24.0M is above the $6.0M median round size for Artificial Intelligence companies on FundedIQ across 7,243 tracked companies over the last two years.

About FundedIQ's Rime Funding Data

FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.

Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for Rime is left off this page rather than filled in.

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