All Deals
October 29, 2025 - Deals
Cartesia Secures $100 Million Investment From Kleiner Perkins Index Ventures Lightspeed And NVIDIA
Cartesia, a Silicon Valley-based AI voice technology company founded by Karan Goel, raised $100 million from top investors including Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, and NVIDIA. Led by Goel and co-founder Albert Gu, Cartesia unveiled Sonic-3, a real-time text-to-speech model that delivers human-like conversations with laughter, emotional nuance, and just 190-millisecond end-to-end latency. Built on State Space Models (SSMs) instead of Transformers, Sonic-3 enables faster, more natural dialogue and supports 42 languages, positioning Cartesia as a frontrunner in the next generation of voice AI.
FOUNDER: Karan Goel
INVESTORS: Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, Lightspeed & NVIDIA
AMOUNT: $100,000,000
HQ: #SiliconValley
#VentureCapital #Cartesia #KaranGoel #KleinerPerkins #IndexVentures #Lightspeed #NVIDIA #TradedVC
More Deals
View All
Archive Secures Strategic Funding Round Led By Anti Fund And Florida FundersArchive has closed a strategic funding round led by Anti Fund and Florida Funders, with backing from angels at OpenAI and Perplexity and more than 50 founders and executives, alongside existing investors including Battery Ventures, Stripe, Tiger Global, Lux Capital and Human Capital. Founded in 2021, Archive uses AI to power social listening and end-to-end creator marketing programs, now serving more than 1,000 brands including DoorDash, Pinterest and L’Oréal.
FOUNDER: Paul Benigeri
HQ: New York, New York
#VentureCapital #Archive #PaulBenigeri #TradedVC
Palo Alto Networks Acquires AI Startup Console For $500 MillionConsole, a San Francisco-based AI startup, has been acquired by Palo Alto Networks for a reported $500 million, just two years after its founding. The company had raised $29 million across two funding rounds and was valued at $157 million in its latest round. Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora was among Console’s early investors, while Thrive Capital, led by Joshua Kushner, led both of the startup’s funding rounds. Palo Alto plans to integrate Console’s AI agent technology into its Cortex security platform.
ACQUISITION: $500,000,000
HQ: San Francisco, CA
#VentureCapital #Console #NikeshArora #TradedVC