CAMB.AI – a groundbreaking speech AI company specializing in instantaneously dubbing any performance in over 100 languages, dialects, and accents utilizing the original voices with their nuances – announced that it had raised a $4 million seed round.
In the funding round led by Courtside Ventures, the investor group included TRTL Ventures, Blue Star Innovation Partners, Ikemori Ventures, and Eisaburo Maeda. And TRTL and Dubai Future District Fund were early investors in CAMB.AI.
This funding round will power CAMB.AI’s continued growth and progress since the company was founded in 2022. And since then, CAMB.AI has broken several technological barriers with their MARS TTS and BOLI Translator, built from the ground up for voice localization.
CAMB.AI’s techniques do not just translate speech. They capture and convey the speaker’s original tone and nuance, preserving emotion with less than three seconds of input. And this ensures that the translated content remains as powerful and engaging as the original, maintaining the speaker’s intended impact. The largest collection of resource languages, CAMB.AI can translate Afrikaans, Malay, and Basque, a testament to the company’s commitment to making global communication more inclusive.
Launched by Avneesh Prakash, CEO, and Akshat Prakash, CTO, who spent a half-decade researching and building the technology, CAMB.AI has seen over 100 million views of its dubbed content and already counts Major League Soccer, Tennis Australia, Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, Nick DiGiovanni, Narin Beauty, BeerBiceps, and many other live sports properties, media companies and individual mega-creators as clients.
CAMB.AI was also used in Emirati director Nayla Al Khaja’s horror film Three, which debuted two months ago at the Red Sea Festival in Saudi Arabia as the world’s first fully AI-dubbed multilingual feature film.
Despite the expansive reach of top-notch digital content, a substantial segment of the global population misses out on the essence of that content due to linguistic barriers. And traditional methods of translation and dubbing sometimes fall short in preserving the original emotion, subtleties, and colloquialisms that render each piece of content unique.
CAMB.AI also offers revolutionary dubbing, using proprietary state-of-the-art Generative AI technology to deliver colloquial, contextual translations, zero-shot cross-lingual voice cloning, cross-lingual time sync, background score preservation, and more, at a fraction of the time and cost of others in the space.
The company was recently selected from a pool of 600+ companies by Major League Soccer to be part of the inaugural cohort of the MLS Innovation Lab, with MLS planning to test CAMB.AI’s translation technology across their vast media ecosystem. The company was also selected for the exclusive 2024 AO Startups Program, a joint venture between Tennis Australia, Wildcard Ventures, and Techstars, with CAMB.AI’s technology most recently used to provide AI multi-lingual dubbing and translation from the 2024 Australian Open.
KEY QUOTES:
“This technology is truly remarkable. Growing up in India, a land of over 700 languages, I saw first-hand how difficult it was to consume the plethora of content out there when you couldn’t understand it. For NBA fans in India to now potentially be able watch Steph Curry while listening to the indelible Mike Breen commentating in Hindi is going to globalize the game even further.”
– Vasu Kulkarni, Partner at lead investor Courtside Ventures
“I wanted to ensure my movie was able to be viewed by a global audience in any language. Only CAMB.AI could capture the emotional nuances blended with the horrific content and create a truly authentic experience for my viewers.”
– Nayla Al Khaja
“This is a monumental day for CAMB.AI and we are excited to have an investor group that sees our vision and will help us grow. We’ve already seen amazing adoption of our technology and we expect this funding to fast track further development and global expansion.”
– Avneesh Prakash, CAMB.AI CEO and Co-Founder
“Making content that is more accessible and personalized for our global fans is an absolute priority for the AO. CAMB.AI has the potential to deepen our connection with these audiences in a way not previously thought possible.”
– Machar Reid, Head of Innovation, Tennis Australia
