David AI Becomes the Go To Voice Data Partner for Leading AI Labs

A year ago, Tomer Cohen and Ben Wiley barely made the deadline to submit their Y Combinator application. Today, their startup David AI is emerging as one of the most important data providers in the fast-developing field of audio-based artificial intelligence. The company announced a $25 million Series A funding round led by Alt Capital and Amplify Partners, with participation from First Round Capital, Y Combinator, BoxGroup, and a network of angel investors specializing in frontier audio research. The round values the company at north of $100 million, less than twelve months after it was founded. David AI’s mission is rooted in a straightforward, but underserved problem in AI development: the shortage of high-quality training data for voice-based systems. “We started to think tha