Uplift AI
Conversational AI · Speech & Audio AI
$3.5Mlatest round · Seed · Jan 2026 · 9 mo ago
1backers · Y Combinator
10+team · employees, estimated range
10technologies in use
Overview
Uplift AI builds speech generation and speech understanding models and voice applications for regional languages, including Urdu, Bengali, Pashto and Greek. Its work covers audio annotation tools and voice AI agents for small-business owners, and the company hires a founding design engineer. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$3.5M
1 round on record
Latest round
$3.5M
Seed · Jan 2026 · 9 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Backers
1
Y Combinator
The money's age
Fresh money
9 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
20/100
fresh money
Last sign of life
2 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
Jan 28
Raised a round Seed $3.5M
Jun 2025
Went through Y Combinator
Aug 2024
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
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Web presence
top 7%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | Jan 2026 | $3.5M | — | brecorder.com |
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
30/100
Slowing
Open positions
0
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
60 days
faster than 22% of the market
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Activity Timeline
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added LLM Guardrails to stack
Aug 2026
Financials
Total raised
$3.5M
Latest round
Seed
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | 2026 | $3.5M | Details |
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Uplift AI over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
10
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
81/100AI adopter
Languages
PHP
TypeScript
Cloud & platforms
AWS
AWS Bedrock
Developer tools
WordPress
AI & ML
ChatGPT
Practices & domains
AI Agents
LLM Guardrails
Machine Learning
Prompt Engineering
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco
United States
HQ
10-50 est. staff