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Hume AI

https://www.hume.ai Research Team Data
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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.

Positioning

Empathic voice and chat AI for emotionally intelligent conversations

Key facts

HQ location
New York, NY, USA
Founded
2021
Employee range
11-50 (11-50)
Funding stage
Series B
Company type
Private (Private (technology licensing / talent agreement with Google DeepMind reported Jan 2026))
Pricing model
Subscription Usage Based (Usage-based API / subscription plans plus enterprise pricing)
Last updated
Jun 21, 2026

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

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

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 segment/industry tags from this text is a future phase.

Attribute breakdown

  • AI Workflows Secondary feature
  • AI Fine-tuning / Custom Model Training Secondary feature
  • Agent Builder / Agent Configuration Secondary feature
  • System / API Integration Secondary feature
  • Prompt Management / Prompt Engineering Secondary feature
  • Model Deployment / Inference Infrastructure Secondary feature
  • Traditional Machine Learning Secondary feature
  • Data Privacy / PII / Confidential AI Secondary feature
  • Conversation Intelligence / Speech Analytics Secondary feature
  • Text Chatbots / Conversational Assistants Secondary feature
  • Voice AI Agents Primary focus
  • Voice Infrastructure / STT / TTS Primary focus
  • AI for Customer Experience / Support Automation Secondary feature
  • Enterprise App / Internal Tool Builder Secondary feature
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  • AI Workflows Secondary feature
  • AI Automation / Business Process Automation Not emphasized
  • AI Fine-tuning / Custom Model Training Secondary feature
  • Agent Builder / Agent Configuration Secondary feature
  • Multi-agent Orchestration / Runtime Not emphasized
  • System / API Integration Secondary feature
  • Prompt Management / Prompt Engineering Secondary feature
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation Not emphasized
  • Graph RAG / Knowledge Graph Retrieval Not emphasized
  • Enterprise Search / Knowledge Management Not emphasized
  • AI / LLM Data Pipeline Not emphasized
  • Document AI / Document Processing Not emphasized
  • Model Deployment / Inference Infrastructure Secondary feature
  • Traditional Machine Learning Secondary feature
  • AI Quality Assurance / LLM Evaluation Not emphasized
  • AI Observability / Monitoring Not emphasized
  • AI Security / Guardrails Not emphasized
  • Data Privacy / PII / Confidential AI Secondary feature
  • AI Governance / Policy Management Not emphasized
  • AI Risk / Compliance Not emphasized
  • AI Asset Inventory / Model Registry Not emphasized
  • Human-in-the-Loop Review / Feedback Not emphasized
  • Call Transcription / Speech-to-Text Data Capture Not emphasized
  • Conversation Intelligence / Speech Analytics Secondary feature
  • Text Chatbots / Conversational Assistants Secondary feature
  • Voice AI Agents Primary focus
  • Voice Infrastructure / STT / TTS Primary focus
  • AI for Customer Experience / Support Automation Secondary feature
  • Sales / Revenue Intelligence Not emphasized
  • Analytics / BI / Decision Intelligence Not emphasized
  • Enterprise App / Internal Tool Builder Secondary feature
  • Vertical-Specific AI Not emphasized