Modulate
modulate.ai
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Speech & Audio AI
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$28.6M
4 rounds on record
Latest round
$25M
Venture round · Sep 2026 · this month
Team
43
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2024
Backers
3
Future Ventures, Hyperplane
The money's age
Fresh money
0 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
35/100
in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 29
Raised a round Venture round $25M · FinTech Global
Jun 24
Launched Modulate Launches AI Music Detection API to Help Platforms Verify AI-Generated Music at Scale · morningstar.com
Mar 18
Launched Modulate Launches Velma Deepfake Detect: A Paradigm Shift in the Economics of Fraud Prevention · enterprisenews.com
Jun 12, 2025
New executive Dario Doller, Executive Officer, Director · SEC Form D
Jun 13, 2024
New executive Mitchell Buckley, Executive Officer · SEC Form D
May 31, 2024
Raised a round Convertible Note $785k · SEC Form D
May 31, 2024
Raised a round Convertible Note $785k · SEC Form D
Feb 26, 2019
Raised a round Venture round $2M
2019
Founded
Aug 29, 2018
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Modulate – Realtime Voice Skins Powered by Adversarial Deep Learning
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Sep 2026 | $25M | — | FinTech Global |
| Convertible Note | May 2024 | $785k | — | SEC Form D |
| Convertible Note | May 2024 | $785k | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Feb 2019 | $2M | — | venturebeat.com |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Modulate, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
William HuffmanExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Michael PappasExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Andrew ThomsonExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Dario DollerExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Mitchell BuckleyExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Future Ventures 
Hyperplane 
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Overview
Modulate is a conversational voice intelligence company that uses machine learning to help enterprises understand how people communicate and take action on those insights. Its platform detects harm, prevents fraud and builds safer online and real-world voice environments, and its job ads cover machine learning engineers and staff fullstack engineers. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
News
Modulate lands $25m as voice AI outgrows the transcript
Modulate, a frontier audio AI company, has secured $25m in fresh capital as organisations wake up to the fact that machines speaking fluently is only half the problem, and understanding what is actually said, and how, is the harder half. Future Ventures l
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Entity Transcription Benchmark: A Public Dataset for Name Accuracy in Speech Recognition Modulate
A free, public dataset for measuring name and entity accuracy in speech recognition. See the audio, the annotations, the scorer, and how Modulate scores.
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Open ASR Leaderboard - a Hugging Face Space by hf-audio
Explore how different speech-to-text models perform on many public and private benchmark datasets. Choose the languages you care about, search or filter models, and see rankings with average word e...
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Modulate Earns #1 Spot on Hugging Face's Transcription Benchmark
Modulate's enterprise transcription API combines leading speech recognition accuracy, production-ready streaming performance, and pricing up to 10x lower than other
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Modulate Launches AI Music Detection API to Help Platforms Verify AI-Generated Music at Scale
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AI Knows When It's Being Watched: Functional Strategic Action and Contextual Register Modulation in Large Language Models
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.15034: AI Knows When It's Being Watched: Functional Strategic Action and Contextual Register Modulation in Large Language Models
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Modulate over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
8
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
77/100
Languages
Python
JavaScript
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch
React.js
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Practices & domains
Machine Learning
Speech Recognition
Text-to-Speech
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People
William Huffman
Executive Officer, Director
Michael Pappas
Executive Officer, Director
Andrew Thomson
Executive Officer, Director
Dario Doller
Executive Officer, Director
Mitchell Buckley
Executive Officer
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
36/100
Slowing
Open positions
0
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
34 days
faster than 38% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Activity Timeline
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Speech Recognition to stack
Aug 2026
Added Text-to-Speech to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Cambridge
United States
HQ
Earlier presence
Somerville, United States