Fact · Dictation software
100million US dollars
On July 8, 2026, Gradium said it had extended its funding to $100 million, seven months after its launch, as an extension of its seed financing. The $100 million is the total after the extension; the announcement does not say how much the extension itself raised.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 19, 2026
In the source's own words
“Gradium today announced that it extended its funding to $100 million just seven months after its launch.”
Gradium Extends Funding to $100 Million and Expands to Silicon Valley, Gradium, 2026, Announcement, opening paragraph.
Open the original- What it measures
- The company is a Paris and San Francisco voice AI company whose products include streaming speech-to-text and text-to-speech. The announcement says it is welcoming new investors including NVIDIA and names no lead investor.
- What it does not show
- A cumulative seed total, not the size of the July 2026 extension. Gradium's first seed round, reported by news outlets in December 2025, does not appear in its own announcements, so it is not counted here.
In the data
A row of Voice AI Funding: Speech and Dictation Startup Rounds, as Gradium seed total, Jul 2026: 100 million US dollars.
- Company
- Gradium
- Deal
- Pre-seed or seed
- What the company makes
- Voice agents and voice AI
- Announced
- 2026-07-08
- Year
- 2026
Source
Used to calculate
- In the funding rounds and acquisitions in speech recognition and dictation dataset, the 11 published figures for “Voice agents and voice AI” have a median of 30 million US dollars, ranging from 2 to 580.7.
- The funding rounds and acquisitions in speech recognition and dictation dataset holds 50 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.
- The funding rounds and acquisitions in speech recognition and dictation dataset draws on 46 distinct sources.