KugelAudio
Conversational AI · Speech & Audio AI
2hiring now · +2 posted in 30 days
1backers · Y Combinator
50+team · employees, estimated range
2025founded
Overview
KugelAudio is a Berlin voice AI company, founded in 2025 and part of Y Combinator, that builds models, a framework and APIs for production-ready voice applications. It offers natural voices in 39 languages, developed and hosted in Europe and fully GDPR compliant, and its first open-source model has passed 150,000 downloads. The company is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Funding and backers
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
2
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Y Combinator
Momentum
57/100
hiring for its size, in the news, rising traction
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 12%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
3
best: 2 points
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | KugelAudio GmbH | its site |
| Registered | 11 Aug 2025 |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Kajo KratzensteinGeschäftsführercompany's site
Viktor PresberGeschäftsführercompany's site
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Investors in similar startupsfunds that back the companies most like this one
Similar startupsby what they do, their industry and backers
Shaping the Future of Voice UI Your Voice moves the world. We believe that "voices move the world," and with a hybrid team from Japan and…
Ultravox is a real-time voice AI infrastructure layer that powers fast, natural, and scalable voice agents.
Uplift AI builds speech generation and speech understanding models and voice applications for regional languages, including Urdu, Bengali…
Deploy enterprise-ready voice AI powered phone agents in days, not weeks. Handle thousands of calls simultaneously with human-like…
Newo is the ready-to-deploy Voice AI for human-quality conversations and real business outcomes. Experience the accuracy and speed for…
Build verified Voice & RCS agents with Belle using natural language. Branded, trusted, and compliant by default — from idea to agentic in…
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$120k
Typical range
$120k
Open positions
1
1
Jobs
Junior
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $120k | $120k |
Highest paying role
Founding Sales (Outbound)
$120k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
2
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Customer Success
50% ▲
Early Careers
50% ▲
People
Kajo Kratzenstein
Geschäftsführer
Viktor Presber
Geschäftsführer
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at KugelAudio over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
3
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
57/100
Developer tools
Adobe Premiere Pro
DaVinci Resolve
Practices & domains
Text-to-Speech
Sign in to see how your skills match this stack
Sign In
Connections
List
Graph
Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors
Y CombinatorVia a fund
6310 portfolio companies
Click a company to open it. Dashed lines are likely connections. The second step of the network is part of the Pro plan.
Owner
Same company
Same group
Likely
News
Clarity 1: Real-Time Speech Enhancement
Clarity 1 removes background noise and every other voice from live calls in real time, so voice bots understand callers. Primary speaker extraction for voice agents.
Read more
Report
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Berlin
Berlin
Germany
HQ
Hear it on your own calls.
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $120k Avg Salary
hires for Customer Success, Early Careers
Rosenthaler Str. 36, 10178 Berlin