Rime Labs
rime.ai
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Generative Audio & Music
Speech & Audio AI
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$25.1M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$22M
Venture round · Jun 2026 · 4 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
4
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Cadenza Ventures, Unusual Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
4 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
45/100
hiring for its size, 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
Jun 1
Raised a round Venture round $22M · SEC Form D
Feb 6, 2025
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Mist v2 – next gen conversational speech synthesis
May 24, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $3.1M · SEC Form D
2022
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Jun 2026 | $22M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | May 2023 | $3.1M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | RIME LABS INC. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Lily CliffordExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Cadenza Ventures 
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News
The Subtleties of Synthetic Accents in AI Voices Rime
Explore how Rime uses linguistic expertise to capture true-to-life accents, like Boston English, ensuring accuracy in speech patterns and pronunciation.
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Introducing Mist v2: Fast Multilingual Conversational TTS Rime
Mist V2 provides natural and expressive AI voices that can help businesses create clearer and more engaging voice experiences.
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Introducing Arcana: Realistic Spoken Language Model Rime
Arcana brings expressive AI voices to applications, making spoken interactions sound more natural, engaging, and human-like.
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AI search's user experience may be the best it'll ever get, says one founder
Today's generative AI chatbot tools remind Rime Labs CEO and founder Lily Clifford of early search engines.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Rime Labs over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
35
Postings analysed
8
Stack modernity
69/100
Languages
C++
Go
JavaScript
Node JS
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch
React.js
SGLang
FSDP
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes
Linux
vLLM
AWS
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People
Lily Clifford
Executive Officer, Director
Sandhya Hedge
Director
Ares Geovanos
Director
John Vrionis
Director
Morgan Blumberg
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
72/100
Growing
Open positions
4
1 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
49 days
faster than 28% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
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.
Marketing
100% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Model Distillation to stack
Sep 2026
Added AI Agents to stack
Sep 2026
New location: New York
Sep 2026
Added A/B Testing to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $247k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Sales
New York
United States
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff $300k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
Jobs
≈ $139k – $305k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • PhD
Quantization
Multimodal AI
Knowledge Distillation
PyTorch
Text-to-Speech
Model Distillation
Machine Learning
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