BoldVoice Raises $21 Million to Advance AI Voice Coach

BoldVoice, providers of a voice coaching platform for non-native English speakers, has raised $21 million in a Series A round led by Matrix, with participation from Flybridge, Xfund, Corazon Capital, Alumni Ventures, Umami Capita,l and Y Combinator. The funding will accelerate global expansion and the development of new AI-powered coaching capabilities and proprietary speech models.

BoldVoice's platform helps users improve their speech clarity and confidence with real-time pronunciation feedback alongside expert-guided coaching. Users record their voice and receive instant, phoneme-level feedback from proprietary speech models trained for accent and pronunciation analysis. Combined with video lessons from expert voice and accent coaches, the platform enables daily practice and measurable improvement.

"AI has transformed how we write, but spoken communication, where teams actually build trust and close deals, has been left behind. We're fixing that," said Anada Lakra, co-founder and CEO of BoldVoice, in a statement. "We're giving a billion non-native English speakers a personal voice coach."

Ilya Usorov, co-founder and chief technology officer of BoldVoice, added, "Speech feedback only works if it is extremely precise. General speech recognition systems aren't designed to hear the nuances of accented speech. At BoldVoice, we're building the ears on the machine with AI models trained specifically for accent and pronunciation analysis, so we can deliver precise and actionable feedback in real time."

"There are millions of non-native English speakers whose careers are held back by something coachable—and BoldVoice has built the AI to coach it at scale," said Kojo Osei, a partner at Matrix, in a statement. "They're defining a new category in professional communication and we're excited to support their growth."