Phonic
AI Agents · Speech & Audio AI
6open roles
$4Mlatest round · Venture round · Apr 2025 · 19 mo ago
4backers · Y Combinator, First Round Capital
5team · US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · 0% in a year
Overview
Build voice agents as natural as humans. 750ms latency, 50+ languages, audio-native AI. Trusted by teams shipping voice in production. Try free.
How Phonic hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Phonic scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Total raised
$4M
1 round on record
Latest round
$4M
Venture round · Apr 2025 · 19 mo ago
Team
5
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · 0% in a year
Hiring now
7
open roles
Backers
4
Y Combinator, First Round Capital
The money's age
Due for its next round
19 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
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
Apr 6, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $4M · Pulse 2.0
Jun 2020
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Jan 2020
Went through Y Combinator
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.89%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Apr 2025 | $4M | Lux Capital | Pulse 2.0 |
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Jobs
≈ $203k – $403k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · San Francisco
LLM
Voice Agents
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WebRTC
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Platform Engineering
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≈ $125k – $274k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · San Francisco
Python
TypeScript
Voice Agents
Mobile
Clean Architecture
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
WebRTC
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Azure
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
SLI/SLO/SLA
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In office · Internship · San Francisco
RLHF
JAX
Speech Recognition
PyTorch
Text-to-Speech
Voice Agents
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≈ $141k – $321k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · San Francisco
JavaScript
TypeScript
Voice Agents
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Next.js
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≈ $170k – $377k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · San Francisco
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Multimodal AI
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≈ $166k – $369k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · PhD · San Francisco
Python
Quantization
JAX
Speech Recognition
PyTorch
Text-to-Speech
Voice Agents
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Visa sponsorship
1
H-1B filings in 12 months
$203k
Median offered salary
7
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Software developers
1
In the register as Phonic, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Other sponsors in the same field
Uniphore 
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Vapi 
SoundHound AI
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US Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 5, 2026 · Visa details by country
Growth
Hiring Momentum
32/100
Slowing
Open positions
7
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
95 days
faster than 12% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
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.
AI/ML
50% ▼
Sales
50% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Pre-training to stack
Nov 2026
Added Post-training to stack
Nov 2026
Added SLI/SLO/SLA to stack
Oct 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Financials
Total raised
$4M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | $4M | Details |
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Phonic over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
29
Postings analysed
8
Stack modernity
72/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Frameworks & libraries
JAX
PyTorch
Next.js
Framer Motion
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Azure
GCP
Kubernetes
AI & ML
LLM
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29 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
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Shared investors
Lux CapitalVia a fund
First Round CapitalVia a fund
FelicisVia a fund
Y CombinatorVia a fund
6311 portfolio companies
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News
Phonic: $4 Million Raised For Speech-To-Speech Platform
Phonic, an end-to-end speech-to-speech platform for building lifelike conversational voice agents, announced a $4 million funding raise from leading investors including Lux Capital and visionary leaders in the AI space including the founders of Replit (Am
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Voice AI platform Phonic gets backing from Lux
Voice AI platform Phonic has attracted backing from Lux Capital and a number of other notable VCs and angels.
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CK Digraph Phonic Worksheets For use with ALL programmes Teaching Resources
60 'ck' fully differentiated worksheets, for use with any phonic programme. Written for those just beginning to blend, e.g Letters and sounds Phases 2 -4 and RWI Spe
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Lenskart launches Phonic audio eyewear compatible with Android and iOS
Lenskart on Wednesday launched Phonic, an audio eyewear with in-built speakers, with the ability to take calls, listen to music, and other digital interaction
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Infillion Acquires Market Research Platform Phonic
Infillion has acquiredPhonic, a global market research platform designed to build voice and video surveys, analyze insights, and create media-enabled research for its partners. Phonic uses AI to accelerate analysis of the data it collects and works ...
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Survey startup Phonic.ai launches News
Survey business Phonic.ai has launched with a focus on collecting and analysing voice and video feedback.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco
United States
HQ
7 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 86% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Frontend, DevOps
300 Brannan Street