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Hume AI www.hume.ai
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Description
Summary Empathic AI company building emotionally intelligent voice and chat interfaces for AI agents and assistants.
Description 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
Funding stage Series B
Company type Private
Pricing model subscription, usage based
Last updated Jun 21, 2026
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
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
Segments & Industries
Segments AI Workflows, AI Agents, LLM Fine-tuning, AI Developer Tools, LLM Deployment, Traditional ML, AI Governance & Risk, Call Analysis, Chatbots, Voice AI Agents, STT/TTS Infrastructure