When was Cartesia founded?

Cartesia was founded in 2023 and raised its 1st funding round 1 year after it was founded.

Where is Cartesia located?

Cartesia is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.

Who is the current CEO of Cartesia?

Karan Goel of Cartesia. They have also founded 1 company and are an angel investors in 1 startup.

How many employees does Cartesia have?

As of Apr 30, 2026, the latest employee count at Cartesia is 116.

Is Cartesia a funded company?

Cartesia is a funded company, having raised a total of $86M across 2 funding rounds to date. The company's 1st funding round was a $***** Seed round, raised on Dec 12, 2024.

When was the latest funding round of Cartesia?

Cartesia's latest funding was a $***** Series A round on Mar 11, 2025, with participation from 1 investor.

Where does Cartesia rank among its competitors?

Cartesia ranks 6th amongst 2385 active competitors, of which 161 are funded. It stands 4th in terms of total funding among its competitors. The most recent competitor to raise funding was Goodfire, which secured $150M in Dec, 2025.

Who are the top competitors of Cartesia?

Cartesia's top competitors include Rasa, Goodfire and Fireworks. Among them, Goodfire secured the most recent funding round in December, 2025.

Cartesia - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors

Company Details

Provider of real-time text-to-speech API with AI laughter and emotion. The company offers models, agents, and solutions for various applications. These include customer service, healthcare, gaming, and logistics. It provides voice cloning and supports multiple languages. The company focuses on developer-first, enterprise-ready solutions with API and SDK integration.

Website: cartesia.ai/sonic
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Email ID: *****@cartesia.ai

Key Metrics

Founded Year

2023

Location

San Francisco, United States

Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$86M in 2 rounds

Latest Funding Round

Series A, Mar 11, 2025, $*****

Investors

Index Ventures & 9 more

Ranked

6^th among 2385 active competitors

Employee Count

116 as on Apr 30, 2026

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Cartesia is associated with 1 legal entity given below:

Legal Entity Name	Date of Incorporation	Revenue	Latest Employee Count	Documents
CARTESIA AI, INC. CIN: 7265761 , United States, Active	Feb 27, 2024	-	28 (As on Dec 31, 2024)	-

Cartesia has raised a total funding of $86M over 2 rounds. Its first funding round was on Dec 12, 2024. Its latest funding round was a Series A round on Mar 11, 2025 for $*****. 1 investor participated in its latest round. Cartesia has 9 institutional investors and 1 angel investor.

Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Cartesia:

Date of Funding	Funding Amount	Round Name	Post-Money Valuation	Revenue Multiple	Lead Investors	Other Investors
Mar 11, 2025	8286420	Series A	1180736	6625979	9228186	9731081
Dec 12, 2024	7652597	Seed	5557145	6417143	Index Ventures	Lightspeed Venture Partners & 5 more

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The founders of Cartesia are Karan Goel, Albert Gu, Arjun Desai, Brandon Yang and Chris Re. Karan Goel is the CEO of Cartesia.

Here are the details of Cartesia's key team members:

Karan Goel: Co-Founder & CEO of Cartesia. They are also an angel investor in 1 startup.
Contact Info: 1 email address
Albert Gu: Co-Founder of Cartesia.
Contact Info: 1 email address
Arjun Desai: Co-Founder of Cartesia.
Contact Info: 1 email address
Brandon Yang: Co-Founder of Cartesia.
Contact Info: 1 email address
Chris Re: Co-Founder of Cartesia.
Contact Info: 1 email address

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Cartesia's employee count trend

Cartesia has 116 employees as of Apr 26. Here is Cartesia's employee count trend over the years:

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Top competitors of Cartesia include Rasa, Goodfire and Fireworks. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Cartesia, ranked by Tracxn score:

Rank	Company Details	Short Description	Total Funding	Investors	Tracxn Score
1st	Rasa 2016, San Francisco (United States), Series C	Developer of a platform for building and deploying AI agent solutions	$83.8M	Accel, PayPal Ventures & 18 others	72/100
2nd	Goodfire 2024, San Francisco (United States), Series B	Interpretability tooling for generative AI models	$209M	Menlo Ventures, B Capital & 11 others	71/100
3rd	Fireworks 2022, Redwood City (United States), Series C	Generative AI platform as a service for accelerating product innovation and disruption	$307M	Index Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners ... & 12 others	71/100
4th	Sarvam 2023, Bengaluru (India), Series A	Provider of a platform for developing and deploying language-based artificial intelligence	$41.3M	Lightspeed Venture Partners, Peak XV Partners ... & 9 others	69/100
5th	Bria 2020, Tel Aviv (Israel), Series B	Provider of licensed data-trained AI platform for visual content generation	$65M	GFT Ventures, Intel Capital & 13 others	68/100
6th	Cartesia 2023, San Francisco (United States), Series A	Provider of real-time text-to-speech API with AI laughter and emotion	$86M	Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins & 8 others	67/100
7th	Avaamo 2014, Los Altos (United States), Series A	Provider of conversational AI platform for enterprises	$23.5M	Clear Ventures, Wipro & 11 others	67/100
8th	AISpeech 2007, Suzhou (China), Series E	Provider of voice and language technology, software, and hardware solutions	$208M	Yuanhe Holdings, CMIG & 15 others	66/100
9th	Hume 2021, New York City (United States), Series B	Developer of text to speech and speech to speech application programming interfaces and software	$80.7M	Union Square Ventures, EQT & 8 others	63/100
10th	Arcee.ai 2023, Miami (United States), Series A	Platform to train, and deploy language models	$29.5M	M12, Prosperity7 Ventures & 7 others	62/100