AI-enabled voice know-how platform Sonde Well being introduced it raised $19.25 million in a Collection B funding spherical led by Companions Funding, bringing its complete increase to $35.25 million.
KT Company, NEOM Firm and current traders additionally participated within the spherical, together with cofounder PureTech Well being and M Ventures.
WHAT IT DOES
Sonde Well being makes use of patented voice know-how to detect numerous well being circumstances from biomarkers in an individual’s voice, together with analyzing respiratory health and detecting melancholy and anxiousness.
WHAT IT’S FOR
The funding will assist construct out the corporate’s know-how to detect further well being circumstances, increase its present respiratory and psychological health-monitoring applied sciences, and drive international industrial development.
“Digital biomarkers have gotten a mainstay in healthcare. As we speak’s healthcare corporations are realizing how vocal biomarkers can have interaction folks earlier of their well being. The info and insights present in voice can energy well being monitoring and affected person stratification so points can change into obvious nicely earlier than a pricey medical occasion happens,” David Liu, CEO of Sonde Well being, mentioned in a press release.
“With voice and any listening gadget, accessible and efficient well being monitoring may be made accessible to the vast majority of the world.”
MARKET SNAPSHOT
Final month, Boston-based Sonde Well being garnered a $2 million strategic funding from South Korean telecommunications big KT Company. KT plans to make use of the tech to improve its AI-powered voice enterprise options and combine Sonde’s know-how into its telemedicine platform in Vietnam.
Sonde Well being licensed its voice know-how from MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory and in 2018 obtained unique licensing agreements for the patent.
In 2020, the corporate launched its voice API to detect psychological sickness, saying that the software can detect vocal adjustments that might sign one’s psychological state through 30-second audio clips and that it could possibly be built-in into third-party apps.
Throughout the peak of the pandemic, it launched a vocal-screening software to detect respiratory sickness signs and purchased voice-based platform-maker NeuroLex Laboratories.
