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New Landscape: AI Voice Agents 2025 | a16z
AI Voice Agents are driving real-time transformations across multiple industries, streamlining core business operations. Organizations worldwide are rapidly adopting AI-powered voice automation at scale.
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🔮 Talents of the Week
Specter monitors real-time global talent movements to spot investment opportunities before anyone else.
🪄 Predicted: Thomas Sohmers (US, 2025): Co Founder and CTO at Positron AI
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 551 Days
Description: Positron AI are building hardware+software appliances for machine learning applications.
Prev. Experience: Thomas Sohmers is a serial entrepreneur and processor architect with over a decade of experience in high-performance computing and semiconductor design. Currently the Co-Founder and CTO of Positron AI, he previously served as Director of Technology Strategy and Head of Distributed Systems at Groq, where he worked on datacenter-scale solutions for machine learning. Sohmers was also Principal Hardware Architect at Lambda, leading hardware design for GPU cloud services. Earlier in his career, he founded REX Computing, developing energy-efficient processors for HPC workloads, and Terapute Technologies, focusing on cryptocurrency ASICs. A 2013 Thiel Fellow and recipient of Forbes "30 Under 30," Sohmers began his journey as a researcher at MIT’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at just 13 years old, where he worked on augmented reality and distributed computing systems.
Total Funding: $32M / $23.5M Latest Seed on 01-2025.
Notable Investors: Keebeck Wealth Management, 1517 Fund, Asimov Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Atreides Management, Flume Ventures, .
👻 Opportunity: Sanskar Jethi (EU, 2024): Co-Founder at The Personal AI Company
Sanskar Jethi
Description: The Personal AI Company are developing the personalization layer of AGI. Their first product - Amurex, an AI meeting copilot.
Prev. Experience: Sanskar Jethi is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of The Personal AI Company, a position he started in October 2024. Previously, he worked at Bloomberg as a Software Engineer in various roles, including ML Productivity and AIM, from August 2021 to October 2024. Jethi also co-founded Mexili, an organization supporting Open Source projects, from December 2020 to January 2022. He served as Chief Technology Officer at Ikizia Advisors from July 2019 to August 2021. Jethi is known for creating Robyn, a fast async Python web framework, and Starfyre, a reactive web framework. He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering and has been actively involved in open-source development and tech communities since his early teens.
🎱 Strategic Signals
Specter analyzes the online and social activity of leading investors and industry insiders to predict upcoming funding rounds and acquisitions.
🪄 Predicted: Sauraj Gambhir (US, 2022): Co-Founder and CEO at Prior Labs
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 103 Days
Description: Prior Labs is developing innovative foundation models that understand spreadsheets and databases.
Prev. Experience: Sauraj Gambhir is the Co-Founder of Prior Labs, a position he started in September 2024. Previously, he was an Investment Manager / Principal at ING Ventures from January 2021 to December 2023, where he led investments and exits for various fintech and enterprise software companies. Before ING, Gambhir worked at Royal Bank of Canada Ventures, helping scale the group from 20 to 400+ employees and developing a venture fund. He has been actively investing in enterprise AI/ML since 2017. Gambhir also co-founded symbiosis, a managed Kubernetes provider, from December 2022 to April 2023. He holds a degree in Finance & Computer Science from McGill University and is a Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum. Gambhir's experience spans venture capital, tech M&A, and operations, with a focus on AI, infrastructure, and fintech.
Total Funding: $9.3M / $9.3M Latest Pre-Seed on 02-2025.
Notable Investors: Ashutosh Kulkarni, Atlantic Labs, Balderton Capital, Christopher Lynch, Edward Grefenstette, Galion.exe, Guy Podjarny, Hector Foundation, Peter Sarlin, Robin Rombach, Steve Anavi, Thomas Wolf, XTX Ventures.
👻 Opportunity: Silviu Andrei (US, 2025) Founder at Stealth AI Startup
Silviu Andrei
Prev. Experience: Silviu Andrei is currently the Founder of a stealth AI startup, a position he started in January 2025. Previously, he spent over 7 years at Amazon, most recently as an Applied Scientist in Computer Vision from November 2018 to January 2025, where he focused on Generative AI, Diffusion models, and Video super-resolution GANs. Before Amazon, Andrei worked as a Computer Vision Software Engineer at Structure Studios for over 3 years, developing algorithms related to SLAM and SfM. He also held roles as Lead Software Engineer at MetriTrack LLC and Software Developer at Pentalog Romania. Andrei holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology and a BS+MS degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov.
🍒 Cherry-Picked Companies
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🪄 Predicted: fileAI (APAC, 2021)
6 Months Growth: Web: 108%; Team: 6.0%; Social: 17.6%
Description: fileAI is building AI agents to enhance back-office productivity via business process automation.
Total Funding: $18M / $14M Latest Series A on 02-2025.
Notable Investors: Insignia Ventures Partners, Antler, Kistefos Venture Capital, 1982 Ventures, Investible, kipleX, Plug and Play, Illuminate Financial.
👻 Opportunity: RunPod (US, 2022)
RunPod
6 Months Growth: Web: 17.9%; Team: 75%; Social: 34.5%
Description: RunPod is a cloud platform designed for GPUs, enabling developers to deploy customized full-stack AI applications.
Total Funding: $20M / $20M Latest Seed on 05-2024.
Notable Investors: Julien Chaumond, Adam Lewis, Amjad Masad, Intel Capital, Nat Friedman, AI Grant, Dell Technologies Capital.
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