Camb
San Francisco, US · 70 employees on LinkedIn · 9 known investors
CAMB.AI provides AI-driven localization infrastructure that enables real-time translation and dubbing of content into multiple languages for broadcasters, streaming platforms, and enterprises. The platform serves media companies, sports organizations, and content creators who need to reach global audiences with native-feeling multilingual audio and video experiences.
Also known as Camb.ai · CAMB.AI
Founders & leadership
Investors · 9
Also in the syndicate · 7
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements- Undisclosed amountPre-Series AMar 2025
5Point Ventures, Accelerate Ventures, Comcast NBCU SportsTech, Courtside Ventures, Dubai Future District Fund, Oraseya Capital, TRTL Ventures
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Camb.ai is an AI speech and localization company that translates and dubs video, audio and live broadcasts into more than 140 languages while preserving the original speaker's voice, tone and prosody. Its stack is built on two proprietary model families: MARS, a text-to-speech and voice model line, and BOLI, a context-aware neural translation model. The MARS8 generation is offered in four variants — MARS-Flash (600M parameters) for low-latency multilingual conversational agents, MARS-Pro (600M) for emotionally expressive applications such as audiobooks and voiceovers, MARS-Instruct (1.2B) with director-level control for film and TV dubbing, and MARS-Nano (50M) for on-device and edge use. Earlier MARS 5 and MARS 6 models are published as open source.
The product surface spans live stream dubbing, on-demand dubbing, live subtitles, audiobooks and "stories," transcription with speaker identification and custom dictionaries, subtitle generation, voice cloning from as little as two seconds of audio, voice creation from text descriptions, audio separation, image translation, and generated sound and music. These are exposed through creator- and enterprise-facing tools such as Studio and DubStream and through APIs with Python and Node.js SDKs. The company states SOC 2 Type II compliance and supports deployment across third-party cloud providers.
Camb.ai concentrates on sports, entertainment, news and media, and cloud/edge computing verticals. Reported customers, partners and testing partners include Major League Soccer, Tennis Australia, Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, Eurovision Sport, the LFP, IMAX, Comcast NBCUniversal, Google Cloud, Broadcom, DXC Technology, Dentsu, India Today Group, Arab News, FanCode and Motor Racing Network, alongside creators such as Nick DiGiovanni, Narin Beauty and BeerBiceps.
Founding story
Camb.ai was founded in 2022 by the father-and-son team of Avneesh Prakash, CEO, and Akshat Prakash, CTO, to remove language barriers in content consumption. Akshat Prakash's research at Carnegie Mellon University underpinned the core technology, which he developed further while working on Apple's Siri team; Avneesh Prakash came from the media, entertainment and identity sectors. The pair spent about half a decade researching and building the speech and translation technology before commercializing it as a zero-shot AI dubbing platform.
Business model
Camb.ai sells AI localization as a platform and API. Enterprises and broadcasters buy dubbing, translation, live-stream translation and voice services under enterprise arrangements with custom pricing and dedicated infrastructure, while individual creators and developers can sign up for self-serve products such as Studio, DubStream and the MARS APIs, including a free entry tier. Models are also distributed through cloud partners, with MARS available on Google Cloud's Vertex AI and via providers such as Modal and Baseten, and embedded on-device through silicon partners.
Revenue comes from paid usage of its speech and localization products: enterprise contracts with custom pricing and dedicated infrastructure for high-volume media partners, multi-year league and broadcaster agreements, and consumption-based API and subscription access to MARS text-to-speech, dubbing, translation and related services for developers and creators.
Traction
Dubbed content had passed 100 million views by February 2024 and more than 250 million global views by mid-2025; Australian Open 2024 YouTube videos dubbed by Camb.ai drew over 100,000 views in seven days. The FanCode cricket partnership is described as reaching more than 100 million users and the India Today deployment as addressing 500 million viewers. The team numbered roughly 34 employees as of mid-2025, and total disclosed funding stood at $15.5 million as of March 2025.
Latest developments
Recent announcements include the MARS8 model family and the DubStream real-time dubbing product; Google Cloud adding MARS as a speech model on Vertex AI; Broadcom integrating MARS-Nano into system-on-chip products for home devices; a strategic partnership with IMAX for real-time dubbing in cinemas; DXC Technology embedding real-time speech translation in vehicle cockpits; live Spanish AI commentary for Motor Racing Network's NASCAR broadcasts on the NASCAR app; a full Caribbean Premier League season live-dubbed into Hindi for FanCode; live Italian commentary for Ligue1+ debuting at the 2026 Trophée des Champions; AI-dubbed live news with India Today Group; Japan's first AI-dubbed live radio broadcast with Dentsu; and 50-language digital experiences for Arab News.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Camb.ai describes itself as localization infrastructure for the internet and has built a visible position in sports and broadcast localization, evidenced by partnerships with major leagues, broadcasters and platform vendors and by recognition as one of Sports Business Journal's 10 Most Innovative Sports Tech Companies for 2025 and as a UAE Future 100 company. It is compared with translation and localization providers including Smartcat, Phrase, DeepL and Unbabel.
The company positions its zero-shot dubbing approach — cross-lingual voice cloning from under three seconds of input, cross-lingual time sync, background score preservation and colloquial, contextual translation — as retaining the speaker's emotion and nuance where conventional dubbing does not, and claims coverage of low-resource languages such as Afrikaans, Malay and Basque. It also offers an unusually wide model size range, from a 1.2B-parameter dubbing model to a 50M-parameter on-device model for edge hardware and vehicles, and distributes through cloud and silicon partners rather than only as a hosted service.
Technology
Proprietary generative AI models: the MARS text-to-speech and voice family (MARS8 in Flash, Pro, Instruct and Nano variants at 600M, 600M, 1.2B and 50M parameters, with MARS 5 and MARS 6 released open source) and the BOLI context-aware neural translation model. Capabilities include zero-shot cross-lingual voice cloning from two to three seconds of audio, prosody and emotion preservation, cross-lingual time sync, background score preservation, deep-learning audio separation, transcription with speaker diarization and custom dictionaries, subtitle generation, text-prompted sound and music generation, and low-latency streaming for live events. Delivery is via REST APIs with Python and Node.js SDKs, third-party clouds including Google Cloud Vertex AI, Modal and Baseten, and on-device inference on partner silicon.
Go-to-market
Camb.ai sells directly to leagues, broadcasters, media groups and large enterprises, often entering through accelerators and innovation programs — the MLS Innovation Lab, the AO Startups Program run with Tennis Australia, Wildcard Ventures and Techstars, the Comcast NBCUniversal SportsTech Accelerator and Dubai Future Accelerators. It supplements this with a self-serve funnel (free sign-up, Studio, API docs, Discord community), a startup program granting selected companies 33 million characters of speech AI credits plus engineering support, and distribution through cloud marketplaces and chip partners.
Sports leagues and rights holders, broadcasters and news organizations, film and entertainment studios, cloud and semiconductor platform partners, enterprises localizing marketing and product content, and individual creators and developers building voice applications.
Geography
The company was established in the UAE and has been described as headquartered in Dubai, with a substantial US presence in San Francisco. Following its Pre-Series A it said it would build go-to-market teams in Japan, the Middle East, India, Europe and North America. Deployments span France, the United States, India, Japan, Australia, Saudi Arabia and the Caribbean.
History
Camb.ai was founded in 2022 in the UAE and built its MARS text-to-speech and BOLI translation models on roughly five years of prior speech and translation research. It joined the Dubai Future Accelerators cohort in 2023 and was named a Future 100 company by the UAE government. In February 2024 it announced a $4 million seed round led by Courtside Ventures, around the same time it was selected for the inaugural MLS Innovation Lab cohort from more than 600 applicants and for the 2024 AO Startups Program, providing multilingual dubbing at the 2024 Australian Open. An $11 million Pre-Series A closed in late 2024 and was announced in March 2025 alongside a multi-year partnership with the LFP, French soccer's governing body, bringing total funding to $15.5 million; at that point the company said it had begun conversations about a Series A targeting $75 million. In 2025 it joined the Comcast NBCUniversal SportsTech Accelerator and was named one of Sports Business Journal's 10 Most Innovative Sports Tech Companies. By 2026 the company had released the MARS8 model family and DubStream real-time dubbing and announced deployments with IMAX, Broadcom, Google Cloud, DXC Technology, Dentsu, India Today, Arab News, FanCode, NASCAR's Motor Racing Network and Ligue 1.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
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Timeline · 21
launches, deals, and filingsCamb.ai delivers live Spanish-language AI commentary for Motor Racing Network's NASCAR broadcasts, available alongside English on the NASCAR app and website.
MARS8 comprises MARS-Flash (600M parameters), MARS-Pro (600M), MARS-Instruct (1.2B) and MARS-Nano (50M) for on-device use; DubStream offers real-time dubbing.
Camb.ai disclosed an $11 million Pre-Series A round that had closed late in 2024, bringing total funding to $15.5 million.
$11M source ↗
Camb.ai became the official global language solution of the LFP, providing AI translation for live broadcasts, video on demand, editorial content and interviews. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Camb.ai announced a $4 million seed round led by Courtside Ventures, with TRTL Ventures, Blue Star Innovation Partners, Ikemori Ventures and Eisaburo Maeda participating.
$4M source ↗
Chosen from a pool of more than 600 companies by Major League Soccer, which planned to test Camb.ai's translation technology across its media ecosystem.
Joint venture between Tennis Australia, Wildcard Ventures and Techstars; Camb.ai's technology was used for AI multilingual dubbing and translation at the 2024 Australian Open.
Emirati director Nayla Al Khaja's horror film Three, dubbed using Camb.ai, debuted at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; the company describes it as the world's first fully AI-dubbed multilingual feature film, later publicly released AI-dubbed into Mandarin.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Camb do?
- AI speech company whose MARS and BOLI models dub and translate video, live broadcasts and voice into 140+ languages.
- Who founded Camb?
- Camb was founded by Akshat Prakash.
- Who are Camb's investors?
- Camb's investors include Comcast Ventures, Courtside Ventures.
- Where is Camb headquartered?
- Camb is headquartered in San Francisco, US.