Overview
- Modulate announced a $25 million financing on Sept. 28, 2026, led by Future Ventures with participation from Hyperplane and Lakestar.
- The company says its Velma platform combines more than 100 specialized, lightweight audio-native models that analyze signals such as emotion, tone, intent and synthetic speech rather than relying only on transcripts.
- Modulate reports it now processes more than 10 million hours of audio per month and has analyzed over 600 million hours in total, figures presented by the company and cited in coverage.
- The new funds will be used to hire roughly 10 engineers, broaden APIs, SDKs and integrations, and build on-premises and on-device deployment options to serve privacy-sensitive customers.
- Investors are backing audio-native detection as deepfake voice fraud rises, and Modulate’s claims of higher accuracy and fewer false positives than LLM-based approaches could shift how enterprises screen voice threats though those performance claims remain company-reported and not independently verified.