Hume AI
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Empathic voice and chat AI for emotionally intelligent conversations
Company profile
Overview
Empathic AI company building emotionally intelligent voice and chat interfaces for AI agents and assistants.
Hume provides Empathic Voice Interface, chat, speech and expression measurement APIs for building AI conversations that detect and respond to emotional signals. A 2026 WIRED report says Google DeepMind licensed Hume technology and hired Hume’s CEO and several engineers, while Hume continues supplying its technology to other firms.
At a glance
Key facts
- HQ location
- New York, NY, USA
- Founded
- 2021
- Employee range
- 11-50
- Funding stage
- Series B
- Company type
- PrivatePrivate (technology licensing / talent agreement with Google DeepMind reported Jan 2026)
- Last updated
- Pricing model
- SubscriptionUsage BasedUsage-based API / subscription plans plus enterprise pricing
Business context
Financials
- Revenue estimate
- $100M expected 2026 revenue cited by WIRED investor source; company has not publicly reported audited revenue
- Valuation estimate
- ~$219M CB Insights AI 100 valuation estimate; unverified
- Investments
- $50M Series B announced Mar 2024; ~$74M raised to date cited by WIRED/TechCrunch in 2026
Market context
Relationships
- Target customers
- Developers, AI product teams, customer support teams, voice-interface builders
- Key competitors
- ElevenLabs, Cartesia, Deepgram, OpenAI Realtime, Rime, Vapi
- Known customers
- Journee; Google DeepMind licensing/customer relationship reported by WIRED; broader customers not comprehensively disclosed
Source context
Classification (raw research text)
- Core focus
- Empathic voice AI agents
- Core industry
- Voice AI / Conversational AI
- Core category
- Voice/chat agent platform
Shown verbatim from the research spreadsheet — deriving structured industry tags from this text is a future phase.
Market taxonomy
Segments, Industries & Certifications
Segments
AI WorkflowsAI AgentsLLM Fine-tuningAI Developer ToolsLLM DeploymentTraditional MLAI Governance & RiskCall AnalysisChatbotsVoice AI AgentsSTT/TTS Infrastructure