With 4 million app downloads, Startup based on Estonia The vocal image The goal is to help people improve their voice and communication skills with AI -powered coaching. But one of its 160,000 active users, this may be its CEO, Nick Lakhika, who bestows its mission in a best way.
Lakhika was born in Belarus, did not speak English until Estonia moved, and once struggled with anxiety to speak. Nevertheless, he “won many pitches” by Voice Coaching Startup, which was impressed by his journey, told Tech Crunch.
“When I was in school, I was a little bullying for unclear strength,” said Lakhika. In the early twentieths, as a young, unsafe founder, he met with a vocal coach, Mariana “Russia” Shokiwa, who taught him that sound and communication could be trained.
To help others, they launched a YouTube channel that eventually joined the vocal image, which positions its subscription app as an affordable alternative you can use at home. “You can make strange movements, strange sounds (…) and feel safe,” said Lakhika.
With an interactive library that includes language tweets, breathing exercises, and gestures, the vocal image is also bending more and more to give automatic feedback and personal indicators to the AI, with an interactive library.
This guidance travels mostly to work goals such as increasing professional or leadership skills, and promoting public speeches or offering skills. But the vocal image also helps those who just want to increase their confidence, as well as LGBTQ people, whose rights are Shokurava. Were helping in Belarus.
When the three are from Belarus, they were among the founders of Belarus who left their country after the protest and failed to expel President Alexander Lukashenko and met. Brutal repression. Lakhika selected Estonia for its business environment, which has been conducive to the beginning so far.
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Immediately after moving Tillen, the Vocal image joined the local Accelerator Startup Wise Boys, who considers Startup as one of the “Successful stories“Due to its rapid growth. According to Lakhoka, the funds before the start -up reached $ 6.5 million in the annual revenue (ARR) annual revenue (ARR) at less than 1 million.
Recently, Startup collected a round of $ 3.6 million seeds, headed by French Editic VC firm Education. Expert vc Out of Estonia and Funds of generations Outside Germany, the Tekkarnch learned exclusively.
Lakhika said that by August, now the start is claiming that there are 12 million and about 50,000 compensation users. With a team of 20 people, including the majority of Belarus, the vocal image now plans to expand its development team and deploy more localization (other than English, Spanish, German, French, Ukrainian and Russian).
It’s not too late to pick up as one of their five winners through the face, meta and scaleway after hugging the funding startup European AI Startup ProgramBut even at a time when he faces a growing competition. For example, ahead of AdTch Company recently Added AI -driven Speech Trainer Its social skill app, for Skysta. But according to its GDPR, the vocal image can trust AI Trov.
With about 35,000 recording a day, the vocal image has collected more than one million real sound samples. Even better, these recordings have been labeled by the community through a voice rating, which is a mutual support feature, which facilitates consumers to decide whether others look like “confident” or “children”.
It is a type of datastate that needs vocal image strictly to improve its accuracy. It can also help AI startups improve their artificial sounds, which can produce more tail winds for startups beyond its B2C roots.